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Ottelenghi To Open First Restaurant In Six Years Next Month

Rovi

Opens

June 2018

What they say:

From renowned Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi, Fitzrovia-based Rovi serves up vegetarian-friendly dishes crafted using alternative cooking techniques. Incorporating everything from fermenting to hay-smoking, the veggie-heavy menu is also a low-waste operation, with any remnants of the restaurant's low-intervention wines being turned into vinegar, and even leftover coffee grounds being used in dishes like the hasselback kaffir lime beets with lime cream.

What we say:

The third restaurant brand from Ottolenghi, Rovi offers fresh and tasty drinking and dining in Fitzrovia, with a focus on vegetables and fermentation. While there will be a few choice meat and fish dishes, such as onglet skewers and confit mussels, there are plenty of delicious plant-based plates on offer, such as slow roasted cauliflower with crispy chickpeas, tahini and fermented chilli salsa, and kohlrabi ‘ravioli’ with peas, broad beans and yuzu kosho.