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"I was told Ruta will open in March on Capitol Hill (327 Seventh Street SE) with executive chef Dima Martseniuk, who led the kitchen at NYC’s Veselka for more than 12 years and is a Food Network competitor and three-time Latke Festival winner; expect latkes (he’s a three-time winner of best potato pancake), varenyky (stuffed potato dumplings), and red beetroot soup — Martseniuk even calls himself an “ambassador of borscht” on Instagram — and the restaurant will reactivate the building that housed the short-lived tasting room Newland." - Tierney Plumb