Pant and fellow co-owners of Spice Room last month purchased an Arvada property that will become the Indian restaurant’s third location.
The building was previously home to Steuben’s, which closed in 2021 after five years but still operates in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood. Josh Wolkon of the Secret Sauce restaurant group bought the property in 2015 for $1.4 million. “If I’m going to throw money, I’d rather throw it so it comes back to me,” Pant said. “I’m just making somebody else rich. So I said from now on we’re going to buy every one of them.”
Before opening Spice Room in 2018, Pant said he worked in computers and then ventured into the restaurant industry. For 15 years he worked at places such as TGI Fridays and Applebee’s before landing a manager position at an Indian restaurant where he fell in love with the cuisine. “Why don’t I do this for myself?” Pant said he asked himself. “I can help myself instead of living paycheck to paycheck. We’re going to have to scrape through it. And we started with 38th and the hard work is paying off, little by little.”
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