Six months after shutting down her celebrated Juhu Beach Club, chef Preeti Mistry has closed her second restaurant, Navi Kitchen in Emeryville.
The news was announced July 1 on the kitchen’s Instagram feed, the San Francisco Chronicle first reported.
“We are closed. Thank you for your patronage,” the note reads. “We are grateful for your patronage and support to bring something new to our neighborhood. Together we raised thousands of dollars for Destiny Arts, Planting Justice and Black Lives Matter through sales of tikka masala mac & cheese to warming bowls of dal.
“We’ve decided to close and move on to other things in our lives. Thank you for supporting and enjoying Navi Kitchen.”
The announcement was signed by Mistry and her partner/spouse, Ann Nadeau.
The restaurant had opened in 2017 in the Bakery Lofts in Emeryville, a work/live/retail project constructed at a former commercial bakery, Remar.
“I think it’s a great space,” Mistry later told Eater SF. “I just don’t think what we were doing was working there.”
The chef who charmed Anthony Bourdain with her creative dishes back when he filmed “Parts Unknown” in the Bay Area had operated Juhu for five years. During that time she released her first cookbook, “The Juhu Beach Club Cookbook: Indian Spice, Oakland Soul.”
Stay tuned for updates on what’s next for the Mistry-Juhu team.