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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