The would-be fine dining restaurant Ditas in Sausalito is closed. More or less. The restaurant, housed in the tremendous former Trident space, is just for private events and (for now) breakfast service. It also has a new name: Eria Cafe. The shift from Ditas to Eria has come with missed reservations, changes to the owner’s dining habits that have impacted the restaurant, and a few question marks.
Nikita Khandheria was 19 years old at the time she launched Ditas in 2023, starting it with money from a series of investors. The waterfront restaurant was the first outpost of mini restaurant-and-bar chain Ditas, based in India. But now, relaunched as Eria, it’s both a showcase for Khandheria’s new consumer goods brand of the same name and a morning cafe. In a note posted to the restaurant’s website by Khanderia, the idea behind the change is to thrust into a bold, consumer products horizon. Now, the Ditas homepage redirects to a new website set up for Eria. It’s a new cafe in the same space, open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
That said, Eria won’t be open past September…