RAFI
Where vegetables, seafood and service shine.
15/20
Contemporary$$$
Whether it’s Friday work lunch in the foliage-filled terrace, or a snack and cocktail at the natural-light-flooded bar, RAFI is an easy place to relax.
Staff know the importance of a warm welcome, and are happy to steer guests through a menu full of vibrant vegetables and seafood grilled over coals. Ripe tomatoes are dressed with zingy chalaquita salsa, channelling the Peruvian roots of chef Matias Cilloniz, while South Coast tuna hums with fragrant chilli oil on a bed of tahini. Torched sardines are simply anointed with superb olive oil – puffed-up pita is a must to soak up the juices.
Elsewhere, wrap your own crackling-capped pork belly in lettuce with pickled celery, or keep with the sea theme and share a grilled lobster kicking with fruity aji amarillo chilli. The wine list, meanwhile, is diverse enough to go toe-to-toe with any dish, whatever the occasion.
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