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While you are thinking about the big changes coming to 15th Ave E, there are some smaller shifts happening in the area’s food and drink mix where a decade-old Vietnamese joint is making way for a new Indian restaurant with Hilltop roots in the kitchen and a long-awaited “modern European” restaurant from veterans of the city’s Indian food and drink scene is also nearing an opening where the old Canterbury used to do its thing.

Tandoori Flame and Indian Grill is making preparations to open soon in the space formerly home to Bamboo above 15th Ave E.

Jaspreet Manhani and Bobby Manhani are part of an extended Indian family of food and drink around the city that includes former 15th Ave E resident Kanak and E Madison’s Bombay Burger.

Tandoori Flame, Jaspreet says, will focus on the curries and flavors of North India.

Kanak, by the way, made way for Spice Waala which opened on the street in 2019.

The experienced business and restaurant owners behind Tandoori Flame are taking over after 10 years of business at Bamboo.

Renovations are currently underway with a planned opening coming soon.

Meanwhile, work on a food and drink project on the other end of the street has now been going — off and on — for more than a year as a restaurant family reshapes the old Canterbury into a home for Restaurant Meliora, planned as a modern European restaurant on the street level of Community Roots Housing’s historic and rent-restricted Fredonia Apartments building.

CHS reported here in May 2022 on the project part of the Rasai restaurant family, the Fremont “progressive Indian” joint that celebrated a grand opening in spring 2021 on N 36th St. under longtime Seattle restaurant veteran Sykh Singh.

No opening date has been announced for Meliora where work has slowly chiseled away in an overhaul of the departed tavern but the restaurant has been hiring and is now promising a “summer 2023” opening.

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