The restaurant at 24 Main Street in Winooski has gone from burgers to biryani. Grazers' third location — which moved into Tiny Thai's former spot at the bottom of the rotary in 2021 — closed two months ago, co-owner Sam Handy confirmed. Tikka House, an Indian restaurant owned by two youn
g entrepreneurs, opened there on March 22. G One, 23, and Bha Wana, 21, said their new restaurant will specialize in kati rolls — paratha-wrapped kebabs that are a popular Indian street food — once they find the right bread to complete the dish. Filling options will include chicken tikka, lamb, paneer, potato and chickpea, and mushroom and corn. The co-owners are Nepali and live in Essex but are originally from Burma, Wana said. She described them as excited to "make dishes we don't have in Vermont and introduce our kati rolls to the people here." One said he has previously operated restaurants in Montpelier and New Hampshire, and his aunt drew him to Chittenden County. "She said this place is very good to do business," he said. Tikka House's menu also includes classic Indian fare such as biryani, a fragrant rice dish; cauliflower Manchurian; chicken 65; dal tadka; lamb korma and goat vindaloo. The restaurant is currently open every day for lunch and dinner, with dine-in, takeout and online ordering available. Grazers is still operating in Williston and St. Albans, Handy told Seven Days. He said most of the Winooski location's customers came from Colchester and Milton, and construction from the Main Street Revitalization project caused dine-in sales to drop roughly 50 percent "pretty much right away." "We had a really good first three years there," Handy said. "Winooski is going to be better for it when this project is over, but it was unsustainable for us."… ...read more read less