A Kansas Grocery Family Just Opened the Fusion Room Next Door
Jaspal Singh and Manjit Kaur’s Urban Eats sits beside Taj Grocers in Overland Park, with tikka pizza leading a half-fusion, half-Punjabi menu.
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Urban Eats opened earlier this month at 11832 Quivira Road in Overland Park, Kansas, in the Stoll Park shopping center just off 119th and Quivira. The room sits next door to JS Taj Grocers, the Indian grocery Jaspal Singh and Manjit Kaur have run since 2017. Their daughter Simi Kaur told the Johnson County Post the family had been asked for years when the home-cooked trays and sweets leaving the shop would become a restaurant; a former dry cleaners next door finally made the split workable without leaving the grocery behind.
The menu is half familiar Punjabi and street plates, half the fusion items Simi says Kansas City was thin on. Butter chicken, veggie korma, Pakistani-style goat biryani, tandoori chicken, chana masala, samosa chaat, and aloo tikki sit beside chicken or paneer pizzas on tikka masala sauce, the dishes she says lead sales. The pastry case carries rasmalai, gulab jamun, and carrot burfi. Everything, she told the Post, is made from scratch, including the pizza recipes. The family is already testing ideas like butter chicken garlic rolls.
The Kansas City Star adds the longer arc: the family moved to the United States in 2008; Singh and Kaur cooked and catered before the grocery, and Manjit’s sweets built a following by word of mouth. Simi’s brief for the room is practical. Johnson County already has Indian restaurants, so the condition for opening was half fusion, half regular, dishes neighbors could not get as easily elsewhere. A wall opening now links Urban Eats and Taj Grocers, so diners walk into a store many had never noticed after a decade on Quivira.
For readers tracking South Asian openings outside the coastal fine-dining circuit, the useful signal is grocery-adjacent family service: lunch 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., dinner 4:30 to 9 p.m., daily. Confirm the current menu before you go; this is local reporting from Lucie Krisman at the Johnson County Post (July 22) and the Kansas City Star, not a Tadka Table review.