Plans to move longtime Wichita restaurant Passage to India to the black-and-yellow metal building that went up last year at 21st and Oliver have changed.
Instead, Passage to India will stay put, and its owner will help the owners of the new building launch a new concept: a combination Indian restaurant, bakery and market called Desi Dhaba.
Local lawyer/developer Abdul Arif and his nephew, Tariq Azmi, put up the 5,000-square-foot building last year but originally announced their plans for it in March 2024. The initial intention was that Passage to India would move into one end of the building and that 360 Deli & Grill would open another location in the other.
But those plans evolved once Passage to India’s owner Md Zakir Hossen decided he didn’t really want to relocate the 31-year-old restaurant, which he bought from Arif and Azmi in early 2020. The owners of 360 Deli & Grill also had a change of heart, they said last month…