Amaranto

Met up with old school friends. Dark marble and wood interiors with warm fire and potraits of royalty. We had 5 course degustation menu. For £40 per person. A savory brulee, followed by goose liver with toasted brioche. Then turkey with bread sauce. A panacotta then black forrest desert and sweets with coffee. Service was good and we enjoyed the quiet surroundings. Regaled each other with old school stories. There were complementary cocktails to start. Good location for a get together and chat with old friends or a business dinner.

Dinner was absolutely amazing and the service was top-​notch. Actually, one of the most delicious items we shared was the Parmesan cheese appetizer that is aged for 24 months. It’s sublime with red wine. The prices are very high — it’s in the Four Seasons Park Lane after all — but well worth it. The chef even paid a visit to our table to check on us and ask our thoughts on the entrées.

We went for cocktails on their beautifully-​landscaped private garden.
From wine and signature cocktails to champagne and a solid single malt whisky list, there’s something for all palates (and budgets: £10 — £1750)
Aladdin’s Tea Pot is a fun cocktail. I pretty much love anything with Cointreau and lavender so I was a huge fan. Smoky Negroni is even better.
It was a bit chilly out during our visit so they offered me and my guest blankets — amazing service!

We visited for afternoon tea. The assortment of pastries and sandwiches were a delight to both my eyes and stomach. The tea selection, though varied and good, was nothing out of the ordinary. The champagne to start was a nice touch and injected that sense of elegance that Amaranto commands. The ornate wall and the general ambiance of the dining room was aesthetically a win. Overall, it was a pleasant experience, but I don’t think it was worth the cost.

I have to say, I was thoroughly underwhelmed.
I came to celebrate my best friend’s 30^th birthday with a champagne afternoon tea, and I was expecting the champagne to be flowing.
But sadly the service we received was a bit standoffish, and more interested in the table of overtly higher class patrons next to us. So we never even ordered a second glass. Nor were we asked if we wanted one.
I can only assume the difference in the level of service was a result of me booking the table on an offer from
. How lowbrow of me!
The intention was always to splash more cash to keep the celebration going. I will always pay for good champagne in good company. But the obvious difference in service quality between our table and our neighbours left me cold and not at all in a festive mood.
Plus, there was a mixup with the card machine, and my Amex ended up being billed twice. Something went wrong with the chip-​and-​PIN machine on the first go, and the server didn’t offer me a voided receipt. He just assured me that the transaction didn’t go through and I needed to input my PIN again. When I looked at my online statement the next day, I found two pending transactions, which seriously annoyed me. I called the hotel and they rectified it swiftly, however.

We visited here for Sunday Bｒunch. Atmosphere was so nice. This restaurant was started from 7: am Only Sunday because of the brunch. Menu was very rich. Cost was 17£ for two dishes. We ordered roast beef, Insalata Caprese, fried noodle Singapore style, clam pasta. All the dishes was so nice. That’s incredible, because it was famous that British food was bad. That’s quite different here. Much recommendation to take a brunch in this restaurant.

Restaurant in Four Seasons — it is a quite dark bar followed by quite bright dinning space. This restaurant is everything you would expect from the 5-​star hotel without too much glam…
— Nice classy space
— Good selections of friendly food (i.e. steak, pasta, etc.)
— Nice table settings
but service can be quite slow and food is not that fantastic… I would have given ²⁄₃ start for dinner but why does this place get 4 star?! because of breakfast… it is one of the best selection for breakfast (could only be weekends.) The weekend brunch menu is very expansive… everything from traditional eggs to pasta/​wraps/​sandwiches and they are available from 7am! where in London can you get such an expansive breakfast menu… and you can select any 2 dishes for £19 plus service. Coffee is not cheap so expect around £30 — £35 per person as a total bill. love it for this weekend brunch menu! Where else can you get eggs and pasta at the same setting at 7am on weekends and it is in 5-​star setting… Definitely wroth while to go for a weekend breakfast when you want to treat yourself.

Do you know what chinese people hate? Food that isn’t worth the money and pasta is one of those money spinners. But so is any meat/​fish/​any dish thats charged over £20. Especially when you can get a bloody lobster down the road for less money, which is what brings me to Amaranto. It was by no means my first choice, but my mother’s friend was here with her young son, staying the night at the four seasons hotel, it was late, they picked.
Service was faultless, it was great, and they even gave me a little bag stool for my handbag. LOVED THAT! But I didn’t like my Pasta, i ordered the one with scottish langoustines and I expected more langoustine meat, also it seemed pretty mushed up, like they were not so careful in de shelling them, i mean, if you’re crap at taking the shells off, leave the shells on, it would probably taste better. The pasta was over cooked, and the sauce with was gloopy and cold. I just expected more from a upper end place. The zucchini frites were way too salty. I left my starter portion of pasta (which was £15 even then) which says alot for what it is. However, they redeem themselves with dessert, we tried the six sins and that was cool, with the melting chocolate ball and the creat inside was delicious. But again, you get a tonne of similar also delicious tasting desserts that are the same and probably cheaper, so just didn’t seem worth it.
I’ve actually had a lot of people be surprised at my verdict, i mean they’re like, ‘it’s the four seasons hotel, how can you hate it?!’ Well I didn’t hate it, but for the four season, I expected not overpriced pasta.

At first, I was all like, ‘there’s an Italian restaurant in the back of that roast duck place on Bayswater?” but my far more savvy wife reassured me that this place is actually inside the Four Seasons hotel.
Today is my birthday, and as I am waist-​deep in a thesis due in a week (I say that to placate my stress, I’ve barely dipped a toe into the water) so rather than celebrate with a full day of extended debauchery I went for breakfast, and am now in the library writing this review (again, procrastinating).
I’ve been here a few times for lunch/​dinner and whilst the food isn’t overly innovative, the menu is solid italian done well. Large 5 star hotels are prime training ground for ambitious chefs so the level of food can be surprising — my wife had a butternut squash soup on our last visit which she said was easily the best soup she’d ever had.
Breakfast was a standard affair; I had eggs, toast, whatever, and my wife had waffles. Very good, perfectly set poached eggs, interesting potato preparation (kind of a dauphinoise, but it arrived as a little bit-​sized square), and great french press coffee. Whilst the food is standard hotel, the service is absolutely excellent (they bring over stools for women to put their handbags), and the room is large with a great patio and loads of natural light.
Whilst I seldom seek out hotel restaurants for dinner, there are few places better for breakfast. Oh, and it’s very reasonable as well.

Rather brilliantly, I was taken here in the week for a business lunch and all i can say was it was superb.
Everything from the hotel entrance right through to the restaurant and out to the covered area at the back was designed so well.
Service was friendly, efficient, and attentive, yet unfussy but not claustrophobic.
We had business to discuss so didn’t make as much of a lunch of it as we should however the food we ordered was excellent.
All but one of our party had the Carbonara which was about as tasty as it could be with a nice variation of using crispy pork belly rather than the usual Panchetta.
Highly recommended

I took my special friend to Amaranto to mark his birthday and it was a success! We had the tasting menu that consisted of 6 courses Carpaccio, Linguine, Risotto, Veal cheeks, cheese board, White choc/​virgin olive oil mousse. There were some intersting combination (For instance Amaretto jelly on the risotto or tomato jelly in the white choc dessert.) Beautifully presented, perfectly cooked and great service. The restaurant itself was cosy dark red and brown colour scheme and dimmed lighting. Excellent value if you get a deal like for instance with Travelzoo.