Bocconcino Review: Unlimited Pizza, Pasta, Prosecco And Spritzes? This Might Be London’s Dreamiest Sunday Brunch

There are worse ways to spend a Sunday than eating unlimited pizza and pasta while someone dutifully tops up your Prosecco.

In fact, forget the Sunday roast. If your idea of a superior weekend involves truffle pasta, wood-fired pizza and a bottomless Aperol Spritz in the middle of Soho, Bocconcino has cracked it.

The name “Bocconcino” translates roughly as “little bite”, but restraint is very much not the order of the day here. Its Sunday Bottomless Brunch gives you 90 minutes of free-flowing bubbles alongside unlimited pasta and pizza, while £61 upgrades the drinks to bottomless Aperol Spritz or Luxardo Limoncello Spritz. Enjoying a light bite here would be an enormous disservice – because you’re going to want to try everything. 

Things begin with a generous antipasti spread covering pretty much every Italian nibble you’d hope to see land on the table: mozzarella, pickled vegetables, arancini, tomato and stracciatella bruschetta, olives, salumi and crisp carasau bread. It’s a delicious start and sets the tone nicely for what follows.

The Black Truffle Tagliatelle, available for an £8 supplement, is the dish we haven’t stopped thinking about since. Silky ribbons of pasta arrive coated in Parmesan and fresh summer truffle, creating something buttery, deeply truffley and dangerously moreish. Our only regret? Not ordering another bowl. Or five. 

We also tried the pappardelle with wild mushrooms and stracciatella before moving onto the pizza selection.

And this is where Bocconcino’s approach to “bottomless” really delivers. You simply order from the brunch menu as you go, with pasta and pizza arriving freshly made rather than appearing en masse on a buffet. Our advice: order one thing at a time and work your way through whatever catches your eye.

The classic Margherita hits the spot, while the Vegetariana – topped with aubergine, courgette, tomatoes, radish, rocket and corn – is particularly fresh and vibrant. Even after the pasta, it’s well worth making room for a pizza to share.

Drinks are treated with similar seriousness. This isn’t a case of pre-mixed cocktails as with some of London’s other brunches. Aperol and Limoncello Spritzes are properly made to order, the Prosecco is topped up enthusiastically, and service throughout is quick, friendly and attentive.

Just as importantly, the atmosphere manages to feel celebratory without tipping into bottomless-brunch bedlam.

Bocconcino is bright, polished and distinctly Italian, with a DJ providing the soundtrack for relaxed vibes. On our visit, families sat alongside couples, birthday groups and friends settling in for a long catch-up. It’s luxurious, but not intimidatingly so.

And at this level of quality, the price starts to make a lot of sense. London has no shortage of bottomless brunches charging similar money for forgettable food and suspiciously weak drinks. Here, the pizza and pasta would be worth ordering in their own right – and the fact you can keep them coming feels wonderfully decadent.

In fact, this genuinely ranks among the best bottomless brunches we’ve tried in London: properly good Italian food, generous refills, excellent cocktails and a glamorous Soho setting that makes an occasion of any Sunday afternoon. 

For dates, birthdays, visiting friends or simply making the weekend considerably more luxurious, Bocconcino is an easy recommendation – and one we’re already looking for an excuse to return to.

Unlimited pasta, proper spritzes and a Sunday afternoon in Soho? La dolce vita, indeed.

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Bocconcino, 19 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8ED

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