Indian fusion restaurant Curry Up Now sets opening date for Ice Blocks location

Curry Up Now will open in midtown Sacramento’s Ice Blocks development this Friday, Heller Pacific director of leasing Deron Benvenuti confirmed in an email to The Sacramento Bee on Wednesday morning.

The long-awaited Indian fast-casual restaurant will open at 1610 R St., Suite 130, for lunch after hosting a series of soft openings throughout the last week. The last soft opening will be from 12 to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the Ice Blocks announced on social media Tuesday.

Curry Up Now’s extensive menu includes classic Indian street foods such as papdi chaat (crisp dough wafers, potato garbanzo mash and chaat masala yogurt) and bhel puri (rice, potato garbanzo mash, cucumber, chutney and crispy sev noodles) as well as in-house inventions like the tikka masala burrito and an Indian-inspired poutine called “sexy fries.”

Akash and Rana Kapoor founded Curry Up Now alongside Amir Hosseini as a food truck fleet in 2009. It’s since grown to six Bay Area locations, one in Irvine and one in the Atlanta area, with full-scale bars called Mortar & Pestle in San Jose and San Mateo.

Heller Pacific founder Mike Heller announced Curry Up Now would open in the Ice Blocks after The Halal Guys, which had previously signed a lease to fill that unit, sued the development company.

The Halal Guys’ suit alleging Heller Pacific demanded they pay rent despite not having the keys to the building or a square footage measurement remains ongoing in Sacramento County Superior Court. The New York-based Middle Eastern restaurant chain had opened five months prior in downtown Davis.