Taste of India opened quietly back in August of 2009 on Salisbury Street in Downtown Raleigh. It seems that it has possibly closed just as quietly in the past week.
Over the past six months, Taste of India has built a decent following through word of mouth in Downtown Raleigh. Their free delivery was an excellent service, the food was great and the prices were very reasonable. We asked the employees a few times about their business and it was always the same answers, “it’s getting better” and “Monday buffet is great”. Delivery seemed to pick up each week according to their driver but night time traffic seemed very slow inside the restaurant.
Last weekend, during the snow storm, Taste of India put up a sign stating that they were closed due to the weather and would be open again on Monday. It has been over a week now and the doors of the restaurant are still closed. New Raleigh has tried to contact Taste of India multiple times over the past week for our Tikka Masala fix and answers to the closed doors without any luck.
Let’s hope it’s just a short break but considering the track record of this space, we don’t have much hope that Taste of India will be opening again anytime soon. Both restaurants that have occupied this space before Taste of India have closed in similar style, with a note saying they would open again soon. Neither ever returned to serving food.
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