Opposite Pollen Street Social, and already rather eclipsed by it, this stylish Mayfair newcomer is a pleasant sort of place in a rather old-fashioned and comfortable sort of way; most aspects of the operation though seem to have struck early-days reporters (and ourselves) as rather lacking ‘oomph’.
STOP PRESS: Now closed. May reopen in late-2012.
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Entertainments - Tue - Pollen on the rocks (music industry); live music and events (check twitter, Private rooms (capacities) - 6, Last orders - 10.45 pm, Closed - closed Sat L & Sun
All praise to AA Gill! The Sunday Times’s columnist may be famous for not talking much about the restaurants, he notionally reviews, but his piece of this Mayfair newcomer – which happened to a...
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Press Reviews (2)
Fay Maschler (17th February 2011)
3/5 stars
In late 2009, I wrote in this paper that "it will be interesting to see if Livio Bisterzo can solve the conundrum of catering for a desired clientele who prefer not to eat". It was for a feature predicting the chances of five supposedly hot new restaurants about to open. Polpo and Hix - also mentioned - duly launched and are flourishing but Bisterzo's gaff, 5 Pollen Street, was serving a full menu only as of last Friday.
Euan Ferguson (1st February 2011)
4/5 stars
French chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten may have a mouthful of a name, but it's a name diners in New York are very familiar with. His restaurants there are the sort natives might refer to as 'the hottest tables in town'. Yet of his global 29-restaurant empire, this new outpost in the swanky W Hotel is his only restaurant in London - although his Vong restaurant did occupy a dining room in The Berkeley hotel between 1997 and 2003.
Fay Maschler (17th February 2011)
Euan Ferguson (1st February 2011)
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