Franchising

Curry Up Now finally opening after pandemic-related delays

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November 2, 2021

Curry Up Now is opening in San Ramon, California, at 6000 Bollinger Canyon Road in City Center Bishop Ranch. The restaurant also features the chain's fourth craft cocktail bar, Mortar & Pestle, which Curry Up Now first launched in 2014 in San Mateo.

Featuring 24 local brews on tap, the bar also has signature cocktails such as the eponymous Mortar & Pestle, Escape from the Bay, Junkyard Heart, Ambika's Grove and many others.

"We've put a lot of work into this store over the past year and are extremely excited to open our doors to the San Ramon community," Founder and CEO Akash Kapoor said in a company press release. "We've incorporated a ton of unique and innovative elements to this location, like specific dishes only available on the San Ramon menu, table-side ordering and in-store robots that help deliver the food to your table."

The highly grand opening comes after the restaurant was originally set to open in 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the postponement, Curry Up Now's food truck was open to the Tri-Valley community in the City Center Bishop Ranch shopping center.

Curry Up Now recently celebrated its 12th anniversary in September after launching as a Bay-area food truck in 2009 and its first brick-and-mortar location two years later in San Mateo, California. The husband-and-wife co-founders, Akash and Rana Kapoor, have expanded their empire to include several food trucks, 19 restaurants and several digital kitchens.