The Indian food near the Streets at Southpoint usually comes in two modes. There's the lunch buffet with steam-table trays, and there's the sit-down dining room with a long menu and a longer wait. Curry Up Now, a few minutes up Shannon Road, is neither. It's a fast-casual Indian street food kitchen built on the things you'd actually eat at a Mumbai stall or a Punjabi dhaba: chaat, kathi rolls, tikka off the grill. You order at the counter, and a tikka masala burrito or a rice bowl lands in your hands in about ten minutes. Every protein on the board is halal. The Durham location opened in 2024 and runs a 4.4-star Google rating. Here's what to order and why it earns the short detour off Southpoint.
Curry Up Now sits at 3105 Shannon Rd, Suite 101, Building 2, Durham, NC 27707, a few minutes by car from the Streets at Southpoint. It shares a lot near the O2 Fitness gym, so parking is free and on-site, which beats circling the mall deck on a Saturday. The kitchen serves the south Durham neighborhoods that ring Southpoint, including Hope Valley, Woodcroft, Forest Hills, Parkwood, and South Square, and it's an easy stop on the way in or out of the mall. It's open seven days a week, 11am to 9pm.
Curry Up Now was founded in April 2009 by Akash and Rana Kapoor, a husband-and-wife team who started with a single food truck in Burlingame, California. The tagline they built it on, "Indian Born, California Raised," is the whole idea in four words. They took the street snacks of Mumbai and the tandoor cooking of the north and rebuilt them for a California counter, so tikka masala goes into a burrito, the samosa gets deconstructed onto a plate, and naan turns into a pizza base. The fusion lives in the format, not in watered-down spice. The kitchen runs under Corporate Executive Chef Bikram Das, and the brand has grown to around twenty locations across California, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama. Durham opened in 2024. It's counter service, so there's no buffet line and no waiting on a check, just street food made to order.
The menu reads like a tour of Indian street food with a few signature liberties taken. Near Southpoint, the dishes that move:
To drink there's mango lassi, masala chai, and a dragonfruit lemonade that regulars order by name. Proteins run from chicken and lamb to paneer and plant-based, so a mixed table orders off one menu.
Yes. Every meat Curry Up Now serves is halal, and it has been since the brand started in 2009. It isn't a separate menu or a single token dish. The chicken, the lamb, all of it is halal across the board. For halal diners in Durham, Chapel Hill, and the wider Triangle, that means the entire menu near Southpoint is open to you, with no need to read labels or quiz the counter.
The Durham location holds a 4.4-star rating on Google and a 4.5 on Yelp. The reviews keep landing on the same three things: the speed, the flavor, and how clean and easy the room is.
One Google reviewer, Yash Bhalla, left five stars after a takeout run of the Punjabi by nature bowl and the paneer burrito, and made the comparison most newcomers end up making: he liked it better than a lot of the sit-down Indian places in the area. On Yelp, a first-time guest who ordered a samosa, three bowls, and a dessert called the whole order delicious and promised to come back for more. Another first-timer, Rochelle K., described the dining room as clean and organized and the staff as patient walking her through the menu.
Food writers have noticed too. In its coverage of the Triangle, Eater singled out the vada pav, the Mumbai potato-fritter slider, for the cumin and the fiery spice powder it carries. The catering side keeps the same standard, with a 4.5 rating on ezCater and a 95 percent on-time record, and reviewers who name staff like Amit and Kenny for service that shows up when it says it will.
Yes to all three. Order pickup on Shannon Road through the Curry Up Now app, where the fees stay lowest, or get delivery across south Durham and the Triangle. Delivery reaches Southpoint, Hope Valley, Woodcroft, Downtown Durham, Duke University, RTP, Chapel Hill, Morrisville, and Cary, generally up to about thirty minutes out. For groups, the Durham kitchen caters office lunches in RTP, campus events at Duke and UNC, and family gatherings, with individually boxed meals or family-style trays. Everything stays halal, and the vegetarian and vegan options mean the guest list doesn't fracture into separate orders.
The traditional curry houses and South Indian dosa spots near Southpoint do their thing well. What Curry Up Now offers that they don't is a different rhythm: counter speed, an all-halal kitchen, vegan and gluten-free builds baked into the menu, and street food you won't find on a standard Indian carte, like the tikka masala burrito and the deconstructed samosa chaat. If you've got twenty minutes between errands at Southpoint, this is the closest thing south Durham has to genuine Indian fast food that hasn't cut a corner on the spice.
Indian food near the Streets at Southpoint doesn't have to mean a buffet tray or a forty-minute table. Curry Up Now on Shannon Road keeps it fast, halal, and properly spiced, with a 4.4-star Google rating and a menu that holds meat-eaters, vegetarians, and vegans at one table. Grab a tikka masala burrito on your way through Southpoint, take a makhni bowl back to the office, or hand your next Triangle event to the Durham team. They're open seven days a week with free parking on site, minutes from the mall. Come see why south Durham keeps coming back.
It's on Shannon Road, just a few minutes by car from the Streets at Southpoint, with free on-site parking.
Yes. Every meat on the Curry Up Now menu is halal, across all dishes, with no separate menu needed.
The Durham location holds a 4.4-star rating on Google and a 4.5 on Yelp as of 2026.
The tikka masala burrito, Punjabi by nature bowl, makhni butter bowl, butter chicken, and the deconstructed samosa.
Yes. Delivery covers Southpoint, Hope Valley, Woodcroft, Duke, RTP, Chapel Hill, and more, generally up to thirty minutes out.
Open seven days a week, 11am to 9pm, at 3105 Shannon Rd, Durham, NC 27707. Call (984) 368-4154.
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