This isn’t your typical shopping mall dining experience.

At San Ramon’s City Center Bishop Ranch, what was once Curry Up Now, a fast-casual Indian restaurant, has closed, remodeled, hired a Michelin-star chef, re-designed the menu, tried to upscale everything from food to service and re-opened this August as Khaki Bar and Indian Canteen, an unlikely fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a mall.

“We looked at the East Bay and said, ‘there aren’t any fine dining Indian situations available,’” said owner Akash Kapoor.

Meanwhile, across the Bay, chef brothers Pujan and Sujan Sarkar had just opened Tiya, a fine dining Indian restaurant in San Francisco that has acquired a tidy 4.7-star Google rating since it debuted in 2024.

The Michelin guide recently praised Tiya for its “California edg

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