North Miami’s Zaika Is Expanding to Port St. Lucie
About 70 seats on SW Port St. Lucie Blvd, aiming for late November to December. North Indian lean, select South Indian heat, beer and wine still pending.
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Zaika Indian Cuisine is pushing north of Miami. Owner Priyanka Gorentla told Business Debut on November 3 that a new restaurant is underway at 2860 SW Port St. Lucie Blvd in Port St. Lucie, aimed at late November through December. Her husband, Vijay Gorentla, said the team is still working through interior construction and inspections, and that they want to open between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That holiday window is a target, not a locked date.
The room is planned for about 70 seats, sit-down, with lunch, dinner, catering, and group orders listed on the brand’s new Treasure Coast site. Vijay said they are pursuing a beer and wine license for a bar. Early menu notes point to a tandoor-forward kitchen: chicken tikka masala, biryani, garlic naan, samosas, butter naan around $4, and whole tandoori pomfret near $32. Confirm prices and hours closer to opening. The Port St. Lucie site still marks its phone as “coming soon”; for now the live contact is info@zaikapsl.com.
The kitchen will lean North Indian, with a few South Indian dishes for diners who want more heat. “The south has more spicy versions of food, and the north is similar to mild or medium heat here,” Gorentla told Business Debut. The idea is simple: keep the gravy-and-tandoor plates Florida tables already recognize, then leave room for mustard seed, curry leaf, and sharper chile when someone asks for it.
If the timeline holds, this will be Zaika’s fourth Florida location after North Miami, Weston, and Key Largo. The brand has been in South Florida for about 14 years, starting in North Miami. Port St. Lucie puts the name on the Treasure Coast, well north of the Miami–Broward stretch where Zaika first found regulars. For anyone already driving I-95 on weekends, the next step is practical: watch for a firm open date, then see whether the same mild-to-hot dial shows up as cleanly as it does farther south.