As a farewell, Kabab Grille (201 Towne Center West Blvd., Suite 707) served a limited carry-out menu on Saturday. In an announcement, the owners wrote, “Six years of hard and constant work finally caught up to our health, and unfortunately we cannot continue to operate at the high level we want to operate.”

While Kabab Grille served halal food from the Punjab region of northwestern India and eastern Pakistan, owner Rizwan Afzal says that the new restaurant serves Southern Indian cuisine.

“We served the community very well,” he says. “I think this is the best restaurant that can take over.”

Karaikudi could open as soon as a week from now, he says.

The restaurant group also has a branch in the Northern Virginia community of Chantilly, and there are locations with that name in New Jersey as well as Ontario. The group takes its name from a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It specializes in Chettinad cuisine, “one of the spiciest and the most aromatic in India,” according to the website karaikudiusa.com.