The Kingsway
New uptown restaurant from Saffron NOLA chef is unlike any other. Here's the first look.
Saffron NOLA brought something new to the New Orleans dining scene with its worldly, upscale vision of Indian cuisine. As a second restaurant from its chef, Ashwin Vilkhu, slowly took shape just across the street, many Saffron NOLA regulars surmised it would be a more casual counterpart for Indian flavors.
But The Kingsway goes in a much different direction, one that no other restaurant possibly could. That’s because it flows from a family narrative in hospitality and cuisine over two continents and two generations, now re-imagined and calibrated for elevated modern dining. The new restaurant is a contemporary, upscale Asian restaurant with a prix fixe format, and its own take on the tasting menu approach.
The Kingsway design both expanded and thoroughly remade its building, which long ago was a corner store before it became a restaurant in 2012 with the first iteration of the Vietnamese café Magasin. The dining room has two distinct areas, each simultaneously elegant and relaxing, feeling like a blend of Japanese and Scandinavian styles. It’s all soft surfaces and gentle curves between the glowing bar and verdant plants, under ample noise baffling measures. City buses sail past outside almost without a sound. Upstairs, there’s space for a lounge, and additional dining areas to be developed later.
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