MOUNT VERNON — One of the first things one sees on walking into the Bombay Garden & Greek Eats is a picture of the Taj Mahal — and the owner has the Indian food to match the picture.
Bombay Garden & Greek Eats opened Monday on Coshocton Avenue in the Mount Vernon Gateway Plaza, in the space formerly occupied by Subway restaurant. Restaurant owner Amit Kumar Saini of Granville showed off the menu, which includes a number of Indian vegetarian specials as well as Indian dishes, chicken, lamb and seafood, some prepared with different kinds of curry. Visitors can also order Greek items such as flaming cheese, calamari, babaganoosh and baklava. There are also soups, salads, gyros, wraps, he added, as well as some more American-style food for children.
“We are a small, family-orientated place,” Saini said. “We had a following in Heath from Mount Vernon. So we are filling a gap. Indian cuisine is becoming more popular.”
Saini, who has eight years in the restaurant business, runs the Bombay Garden restaurant in Heath and another restaurant in Granville called Greek Eats. The Mount Vernon restaurant is about 1,200 square feet in size and has 50 seats. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner.
In other business news, Pam Allison, one of the owners of new Allison’s Finer Diner restaurant in Mount Vernon at 11587 Upper Gilchrist Road, the building which formerly housed the Greenleaf Restaurant, said they plan to open around the beginning of May and are close to finalizing their menu.
“We’re eager to embrace the community,” she said. “We want them to be part of the endeavour.”
Allison added that they already have four reservations.
