Mahate owns and operates Saffron Valley restaurants in South Jordan and downtown Salt Lake City — as well as Biscotts, a pastry and chai house, also in South Jordan.
The new Sugar House location, which opens Tuesday, Aug. 15, brings all the components together as it is part restaurant, part market, part chai house.
With the help of a building and architecture team, the vacant building on 500 East and 2100 South has been transformed. Gone are the graffiti-covered windows, the crumbling interior and weed-choked parking lot. In their place are restored brick, bright colors and subtle designs reminiscent of Mahate’s native India.