Kricket Club comes to Seattle’s Ravenna neighborhood

Less than a year after completing the conversion of her first restaurant to the current incarnation, Preeti Agarwal will open her second factory in the former Salare room.

Agarwal took over Pomerol in 2019 and slowly moved it from the previous owner’s French bistro to Meesha, the modern Indian restaurant concept that she has refined in a series of pop-ups over the past few years. She hopes to open her second place, the cricket club, on NE 65th Street by early October.

Modeled on the elite sports clubs in their home country, where people socialize after a game over drinks, small plates and dinner – something like the restaurant in a golf club here in the US, says Agarwal. “I want to bring a new dimension to Indian food” and serve it in a more glamorous setting. She had been looking for a room for a few months and loved that it required only minor work and design updates to fulfill her vision.

With the menu at the cricket club, Agarwal hopes to further expand the idea of ​​Indian food in Seattle, including curries, family recipes, local specialties, and even things from the tradition of royal cuisine – like the Biryani plans to serve. The menu also features street food-inspired dishes like Mumbai Frankies, a flatbread with eggs.

Along with the food, she plans to serve the same creative cocktails that anchor the drinks menu at Meesha, where the Mughal Empress mixes gin with the flavors of pomegranate, rose and sumac and the Nightjar Rum, Campari and a. brings together pineapple shrub. But that’s where the similarities between the two end, as she plans the cricket club to be different in food, ambience and style from her first restaurant when it opens next month.