Last December, What Now reported on plans for Venice-born Indian restaurant Tikka Indian Cuisine to launch its second location, replacing Royal Peacock Indian Kitchen at 5445 Fruitville Road. That restaurant launched in February, and now the team behind Tikka Indian Cuisine is already at work on its next project: Ganges Restaurant & Bar.
Named for the river that flows from Himalayan glaciers through northeastern and India and Bangladesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal, this new restaurant will open at 5013 Ringwod Meadow in Sarasota, according to submitted plan review documents. Ganges will feature two separate components with two different approaches to its food menu.
“There will be two cuisines,” Pallavi, a co-owner of the restaurant, told What Now on Friday. “There will a main dining area with an upscale fine-dining Indian menu. We have three chefs who used to work in a restaurant in Canada that got Micheline recognition. The style is different; it won’t be those basic dishes, the tikka masala, the vindaloo, that you find at any Indian restaurant. It will have a bit more elaborate presentation.”
The other section will feature a bar area with bar seating and several more tables, serving up cocktails, beer, and wine, with a more casual American-style menu that is still und development. Pallavi says it’ll have “a little of everything.”
It’s a big space, with seating for about 120 guests. There will also be some outdoor seating.
Ganges Restaurant & Bar is working to get open soon. In the meantime, you can visit Tikka Indian Cuisine in Venice and Sarasota.
