Tempo reviewed by Giles Coren for The Saturday Times, 4 December 2010

"That's brilliant for Mayfair. And even better for Mayfair is the charming, rather laid-back service and the modern, 'chicchetti'-focused menu, which encourages the table-wide sharing approach that is almost the only way that I can bear to eat these days." 


Giles Coren, The Saturday Times, 4 December 2010

Tempo Review In Metro by Marina O'Loughlin on 1st of December 2010

"If Tokyo’s anything to go by, the Japanese 

love Italian food. Maybe it’s a noodle thing. New Mayfair swankpot Tempo’s kitchen is headed up by one Yoshi Yamada but apart from some very sashimi-ish carpaccios of fish and a belter of a lemon tart, the flavour is Italian to the core. [...] butternut squash risotto with an astonishing depth of buttery flavour; a dense, chewy but excellently flavoured rabbit and pistachio tortelli in a quantity of sage butter (Yamada sure likes his dairy). There are so-now cicchetti –Venetian-style small plates – of spicy n’duja crostini, seared octopus with apple and pomegranate. These are also available in the upstairs bar, which is beautiful – a luxurious, creamy rococo room and that rarest of London things, a hidden gem."


Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/848925-tempo-is-an-italian-restaurant-well-worth-going-out-of-your-way-for#ixzz16sSwXtKU

Article on Tempo in Tatler Magazine by Jeremy Wayne, December 2010 issue

"Like most Japanese, Yamada is enamoured of all things Italian, an seems to have mastered the art of Italian cooking, sprinkling his menu with dishes from the diary-rich north all the way to Calabria in the South. [...] The food runs the gamut. Cicchetti, those must-have little snacks, come first-bruschetta of roasted peppers and burrata or a saucer of featherlight fried squid and whitebait. Lovely. Carpaccio is expertly done, not sliced wafer-thin and all the better for it: beef with hazelnuts and Parmesan, sworfish with capers and olives."

Tempo Review In The London Magazine, December 2010

 ‎"Our favourites included scallops with golden beetroot and a chili 'kick', and seared octopus with apple and pomegranate, while our gnocchi were so light and fluffy it's amazing they didn't spontaneously levitate on the way from kitchen to the table. My companion's pork belly main course was melt in the mouth, with a deep rich flavour and no fat whatsoever. [...] 

Tempo has achieved its aim of being a an intimate, upscale but reasonably priced neighbourhood 
restaurant"