Rutaksha rawat roots—cafe in the park
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April - June 2015 PURE&ECO™ India PAGE 13 F & B REVIEW to Vinod Dani, the cafe’s soft spoken manager, the place is packed to the rafters on weekends, with anywhere from 400 to 500 people visiting. I spied cliques of friends and families; a lone reader perched on a corner bench with a very patient fudge brownie; and a motley group of corporate servants on a brainstorming break. A bunch of college goers laughed more than they ate and an expat or two with steaming mugs of coffee completed the scene. The objective of RGEP, where Roots is housed, is to spread awareness about renewable energy, energy conservation, energy efficiency and climate change mitigation. Adhering to the theme of the venue, Roots is a zero grid cafe, entirely run on solar power. Its eco consciousness goes beyond energy efficiency, however. The restaurant’s mantra is ‘Natural’. It tries to use nature to create its food as much and as pervasively as possible. From leveraging the Sun for electricity, cooking and hot water, to creating only preservative free food, and composting its waste at the compost pit located on RGEP’s solar panel-dotted compounds, Roots goes the extra mile to be green. So admirable and novel are these attributes in the Delhi Solar Rooftop Outdoor seating
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April - June 2015PURE&ECO™ India PAGE
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F & B REVIEW
to Vinod Dani, the cafe’s soft spoken manager, the place is packed to the rafters on weekends, with anywhere from 400 to 500 people visiting.
I spied cliques of friends and families; a lone reader perched on a corner bench with a very patient fudge brownie; and a motley group of corporate servants on a brainstorming break. A bunch of college goers laughed more than they ate and an
expat or two with steaming mugs of coffee completed the scene.
The objective of RGEP, where Roots is housed, is to spread awareness about renewable energy, energy conservation, energy efficiency and climate change mitigation. Adhering to the theme of the venue, Roots is a zero grid cafe, entirely run on solar power. Its eco consciousness goes beyond energy efficiency, however. The
restaurant’s mantra is ‘Natural’. It tries to use nature to create its food as much and as pervasively as possible.
From leveraging the Sun for electricity, cooking and hot water, to creating only preservative free food, and composting its waste at the compost pit located on RGEP’s solar panel-dotted compounds, Roots goes the extra mile to be green. So admirable and novel are these attributes in the Delhi
Solar Rooftop
Outdoor seating
