Kricket Club comes to Seattle’s Ravenna neighborhood

Less than a year after completing her first restaurant’s transition to its current incarnation, Preeti Agarwal will open her sophomore effort in the former Salare space.

Agarwal took over Pomerol in 2019 and slowly guided it from the previous owner’s French bistro into Meesha, the modern Indian restaurant concept she honed in a series of pop-ups over the last few years. By early October, she hopes to have her second spot, Kricket Club, open on N.E. 65th Street.

Modeled after the elite sports clubs of her home country where people socialize after a game with drinks, small plates, and dinners – something like the restaurant at a golf club here in the U.S., Agarwal says. “I want to bring a new dimension of Indian food,” and to serve it in a more glamorous setting. She had been looking for a space for a few months and loved that this one would require only minor work and design updates to meet her vision.

With the menu at Kricket Club, Agarwal hopes to once again expand how people think of Indian food in Seattle, going beyond curries to include her own family recipes, regional specialties, and even things from the tradition of the royal kitchen — like the biryani she plans to serve. The menu will also include street-food-inspired dishes, like Mumbai frankies an egged flatbread wrap.

Along with the food, she plans to serve the same type of creative cocktails that anchor the drink menu at Meesha, where the Mughal Empress mixes gin with the flavors of pomegranate, rose and sumac, and the Nightjar brings together rum, Campari, and a pineapple shrub. But that is where the similarities between the two will end, as she plans for the Kricket Club to be different in food, ambiance and style from her first restaurant when it opens next month.