"For the past four years, Wah Jee Wah has tantalized street food lovers with its open-fire, charcoal-grilled Indian barbecue - a rarity in the Bay Area. On busy summer nights, crowds would line up outside the low-slung Hayward restaurant as chef-owner Ron Dumra and his team grilled yogurt-marinated chicken and sizzling lamb seekh kebabs over hot coals. Diners devoured the skewers in a haze of smoke at the picnic tables outside."
"Meanwhile, Dumra has a tentative deal in place to open a small, takeout-oriented restaurant in Milpitas that he hopes to have up and running by no later than November. And Dumra says he's in talks to open a larger flagship restaurant, with both indoor and outdoor seating, at a location in South San Francisco. If it works out, the new restaurant would require an extensive build-out and wouldn't likely be ready to open until sometime later next year."
Chef-owner Ron Dumra operated Wah Jee Wah in Hayward for four years, serving open-fire, charcoal-grilled Indian barbecue that drew long summer-night lines. The restaurant closed on August 16 after rising operating costs made the location unaffordable. Dumra aims to open a small takeout-focused location in Milpitas by November and is negotiating a larger flagship with indoor and outdoor seating in South San Francisco, though that site will need an extensive build-out and likely reopen later next year. Dumra emphasizes outdoor live-fire grilling as a cultural cooking method and currently runs weekly pop-ups at California Craft Beer in Fremont.
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