The Verdict
ROVI is Yotam Ottolenghi's Fitzrovia vegetable and fermentation-focused restaurant on Wells Street whose live-fire vegetable preparations and fermented ingredient programme communicate what vegetable-forward Middle Eastern-Mediterranean cooking looks like when the world's most globally influential available vegetable cooking advocate applies his most technically ambitious available restaurant format. The live-fire vegetable programme whose char and smoke communicate genuine knowledge of the Middle Eastern fire culture applied to the vegetable; the fermentation programme whose preserved and fermented ingredient selections communicate genuine knowledge of what the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean preservation traditions produce; and the Wells Street Fitzrovia setting creates the most appropriately urban available London context for the Ottolenghi vegetable philosophy at its most technically ambitious.
Why It Works for a First Date
Rovi's Fitzrovia live-fire vegetables and the Ottolenghi fermentation intelligence, the most technically ambitious available expression of the world's most influential vegetable cooking philosophy, creates the first date that communicates genuine knowledge of London's most seriously vegetable-devoted available contemporary Middle Eastern-Mediterranean experience.
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