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There's new totally vegan restaurant coming to Oadby - and it officially launches tonight.

Sanctua - which will serve a plant-based menu, made with fresh, local and seasonal ingredients - is being opened by professional chef Bindu Patel.

Leicester-born Bindu originally studied law before realising that cooking was her true passion in life.

Over the past three years, she has worked in the kitchens of Michelin-starred London restaurants including Gymkhana and Trishna, before launching Sanctua in her home county.

The regularly-changing menu will use ‘wonky’ fruit and vegetables, organic where possible, to help reduce food waste.

Specialised ingredients will be sourced from ethical suppliers.

Starters will include golden black sesame vegetable tempura with a green lime, coriander and Matcha chutney, sriracha aioli and soy dipping sauce, while mains will include Malaysian laksa, coconut, ginger, chilli and lime sorbet with toasted coconut, coconut sugar and coconut salted caramel.

Seasonal dishes are spicy chargrilled asparagus shira-ae with a silken tofu, avocado and white miso mayonnaise, and panko breaded mixed sesame tofu pakora with a spicy rhubarb, apple, ginger, orange and fennel chutney.

Diners can order desserts such as Bindu's signature coconut, ginger, chilli and lime sorbet with toasted coconut and sea salted coconut caramel.

There will a smoothie bowl of the day, with £1 from each sale being donated to a charity of the month.

There will also be a platter of the week, featuring a selection of Eastern, Indian, Mexican or Italian dishes.

While the cooking draws its inspiration from several cuisines from across the globe, it embraces Ayurvedic principles (where food is viewed as medicine) from the earliest Brahman traditions of Hinduism.

Bindu is herself vegan, although her food is aimed not just at vegans, but also those who are flexitarian, pescatarian or simply cutting back on meat consumption for sentimental, environmental or health reasons.

When it comes to drinks, there will be a variety of vegan wines and beer as well as non-alcoholic beverages such as mocktails.

(Image: Leicester Mercury) (Image: Leicester Mercury)

The restaurant itself, as the name implies, is intended to offer a calm, relaxing and re-energising environment.

It is stocked with lush plants to oxygenate and purify the air.

A soundtrack of recorded bird song adds to the tranquil atmosphere.

The tables and chairs, as well as the bar, are made from reclaimed wood, and pictures by American artist Kevin Sloan, which explore the relationship between the natural and human-made world, hang on the walls.

You'll find the restaurant at 29 London Road, Oadby. Click here to visit the website.