The team behind Sentio has opened Rubi, a restaurant serving southern European cuisine, on Stasikratous Street in central Nicosia, with a menu created by award-winning chef Andreas Giangoullas.
The restaurant has an open kitchen, two parallel food bars, connected indoor and outdoor areas and a soft-industrial setting.
The menu offers contemporary takes on familiar flavours. Among the lighter dishes are oysters, raw fish of the day with lemon confit, olive oil and piment d’Espelette, beef tartare with bone marrow gremolata, and a salad of tomato, radish, brine pickles and manouri cheese.
Comfort dishes include a ‘Spanakopizza’ with barrel-aged feta and cappelletti cacio e pepe with anari and parmesan. Italian influences continue with spaghettini with gambero rosso and a creamy bisque, and an amatriciana with guanciale, stracciatella and peperoncino. For sharing, there is a 700g USDA Prime bone-in striploin with béarnaise sauce.
The bar serves cocktails built on Mediterranean ingredients with nods to the classics. Rubi’s Aperol combines Aperol with peach, bay leaf and tomato, and the Rosafico pairs gin with fig, rose petals and peppercorn. The Mediterranean Gimlet mixes gin, pear, chamomile and grapefruit, while the Greek Martini is made with gin, vermouth, olive bread, feta and Greek salad.
Rubi is at 47 Stasikratous Street, Nicosia, and can be reached on 22 270202.
