Ravi DeRossi

The Climb

Ownership and executive leadership run in parallel through Ravi DeRossi’s work. Since 2015, Avant Garden in New York City has carried his name as founder and owner, placing him directly behind one of his most defined projects. In the same city, Overthrow Hospitality lists him as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, where his role has been to steer a group that favors movement over rigid formula. What his record shows is not a single pivot but repeated building. Across Avant Garden and Overthrow Hospitality, Ravi DeRossi has worked with intuition and structure in equal measure, treating uncertainty as a condition to work in rather than avoid.

Today

Avant Garden remains the outlet where Ravi DeRossi’s name is tied most closely to his authorship, while Overthrow Hospitality continues under his co-founder and Chief Executive Officer role. The method across both is consistent: collaboration, instinct, and a willingness to build when the path is not fully mapped. The same directness appears in his own words about taste. “I hated mushrooms my whole life.” He grounds that reaction in memory: “I think it’s the way my mom used to cook them.” He goes further: “sort of slimy and snail-like — I just hated them.” The detail is plain, but it points to a practical truth familiar in the trade: flavor is shaped as much by preparation and recall as by ingredient alone.

Signature

Ravi DeRossi’s signature dishes include Avant Garden, Al-Andalus, Long Count, and & Beer. The names span different registers, but each one sits inside the same larger habit of making projects with a clear point of view. Read together, they show a builder who treats identity as something expressed through the work itself.

In Their Words “They were sort of slimy and snail-like — I just hated them.” “I hated mushrooms my whole life.”