Urban Angeethi, the Indian fine-dining restaurant on Arco Street in Cary, has reopened its doors after a 100-day renovation. The restaurant celebrated its grand reopening last Thursday, Nov. 5, unveiling a stunning new interior, an elegant bar and what its owners say is nearly double its original capacity.
The overhaul transformed a restaurant known since 2021 for its North Indian cuisine and Punjabi staples like butter chicken into a larger, more polished space, according to the Raleigh News & Observer. Co-owner Chakshu Singh Agrawal personally designed and conceptualized the new interior, and in an email described the reopened restaurant as featuring nearly double its original capacity, a new interior, an elegant bar and what she called a reimagined contemporary Indian fine-dining experience. Singh Agrawal also oversees financial planning, staff development and guest relations at the restaurant, the same report notes.
In the kitchen, co-owner and chef Paras Singh, who was born and raised in Northern India, continues to run the kitchen. Dishes center around different variations of lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish, lentils, grains and harvested vegetables, per the restaurant's reporting. Urban Angeethi is a reservation-only restaurant serving what it describes as reimagined Indian cuisine, regional delicacies, and signature dishes and drinks.
A Name Rooted in Tradition
The restaurant's name nods to the traditional Indian angeethi, an open stove made from clay, metal or brick that has historically been used for slow-cooking, roasting and heating rooms during colder months, according to the same report. On its website, the restaurant says its recipes honor traditions shaped over generations and rely on flame, spice and time. It's a concept the owners have carried through the redesign, even as the dining room itself has been modernized with the new bar and expanded layout.
Exactly how much larger the space has grown isn't entirely clear. An earlier report from Indy Week described plans to double the restaurant's size to roughly 4,600 square feet, while a listing from Alston Town Center's shopping center put the expanded space at 4,594 square feet, an increase of 2,238 square feet. The figures are close but not identical, and the sources don't reconcile the difference.
New Hours and What's on the Menu
Urban Angeethi is now open Wednesday through Monday, closed Tuesdays, serving lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. before reopening for dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. The restaurant is located at 5033 Arco St. in Cary.
The reopening lands amid a broader wave of growth in Western Wake County's Indian dining scene. Indy Week reports that Kaara Modern Indian opened in Apex on Oct. 24, 2025, and the News & Observer notes that Bar O Bar, a contemporary Indian restaurant focused on South Indian cuisine, is set to open in Cary during December. That growth tracks with demographic shifts in the area: Indy Week reports that in 2023, 34.3% of Morrisville residents identified as Asian Indian, a share that had doubled since 2010, while Wake County's overall population grew by more than 140,000 residents between 2020 and 2024. A 2025 report from the Triangle Business Journal attributed some of Urban Angeethi's momentum to its location in a high-income area with a growing Asian population.
For now, the newly expanded dining room and bar mark the most visible sign of that growth on Arco Street, with Singh Agrawal's redesign and Singh's kitchen now serving guests in a space built to handle nearly twice the crowd it once could.
