The streets of Southampton smelled like Indian spices on a recent Friday night as customers waited in their cars for boxes of chicken tikka masala. Before Ruby Murrays even opened its doors for the ...

For years, Jamesburg’s main street sat quietly — a few shops, a pizza place, not much else. Thumkaa, owned by husband-and-wife team Ruby Bhalla and Sunil Ratwani, opened in March in a space with deep ...