SAFFRON LED BY UNO ALUMS
Popular Uptown Restaurant Saffron Is Led By Two University of New Orleans Graduates
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Saffron is a popular and flavorful spice, so delicate that it must be harvested by hand. Saffron also is the name of one of New Orleans’ most well-regarded and nationally recognized new restaurants: Saffron NOLA.
The chic Magazine Street restaurant—where reservations are not required, but are strongly recommended by food critics—is co-owned and managed by University of New Orleans alumni Ashwin Vilkhu and his younger sister, Pranita Vilkhu, along with their parents, Arvinder and Pardeep Vilkhu.
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