Saffron Nola is open - Indian food

Have reservations this weekend, will report back.

Here is the menu:

saffron menu

nola.com info

Saffron NOLA, an Indian restaurant that operated for a half-dozen years as a pop-up in Gretna, has opened on Magazine Street, The Advocate reported.

The restaurant "started as a well-hidden, once-a-week restaurant serving a one-of-a-kind cuisine, a contemporary, boundary-bending approach to Indian cooking," the newspaper reported. "The family behind it is pretty distinctive, too, and their ideas about food, hospitality and their own Indian heritage have found a much bigger stage."

The restaurant, which the Viklhu family began 6 years ago to complement its 26-year-old catering business on the West Bank, will have a grand opening on Thursday (Aug. 10).
Saffron NOLA explores Indian food with a contemporary
Pardeep and Arvinder 'Dickey' Vilkhu are the chefs/owners behind the 1 1/2-year-old Indian restaurant in Gretna, and the decades-old Saffron Caterers

"Chef Arvinder Vilkhu marries his Indian heritage with local and global flavors while using both classical and modern techniques," the restaurant website states. "His inspiration comes from his Grandmother's worldly cooking style while his influence comes from New Orleans, France, Thailand, Singapore and China."