Siddartha Reddy doesn’t have to venture too far to do the grocery shopping for his new restaurant. The new
Swagath Indian Cuisine is right next door to his business of nearly ten years, Swagath Foods in
East Lansing’s Trowbridge Plaza.
“People were telling me for three or four years that they need a good Indian restaurant,” says Reddy. “I waited for three years, and then said, ‘OK.””
The new restaurant opened on India’s Independence Day, August 15. A month later, demand for seating became so great, Reddy opened a banquet room next door to expand his total restaurant to 3,000 square feet.
“We had people standing, waiting to sit,” Reddy says.
Reddy says Swagath is unique to local restaurant scene in its selection of very authentic Indian fare from both the Northern and Southern Indian food varieties.
The 150-seat restaurant currently employs approximately ten workers. The restaurant also caters and has brought their food as far as Grand Rapids and Mt. Pleasant.
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