Moti Mahal II (Westport)

Moti Mahal II is the Westport room of Jorabar “Jay” Shokar’s two-location Indian restaurant, at 4113 Pennsylvania Ave a half-block off Westport Road. The space has served North Indian food under Shokar’s partnership for well over a decade: it opened as the Westport Korma Sutra, and by December 2016 had been renamed Moti Mahal with — as one regular put it — “the same menu, staff and cook.” The website still labels it “Formerly Korma Sutra.” It keeps longer hours than the Northland original, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, and shares its family-dinner-heavy menu.

Description

Moti Mahal II is a storefront on the east side of Pennsylvania Avenue in the Westport entertainment district; the Westport merchants’ association lists it among district businesses with the owner’s own description, “An Authentic Indian Restaurant serving two locations in Kansas City.”¹² Unlike the Northland room, which closes between lunch and dinner, Westport runs straight through from 10 in the morning to 10 at night, six days a week — the earliest opening of any Indian restaurant in this Registry, and one Tripadvisor reviewer praised its “great brunch.”²³⁴

The ordering menu carries the same headings as Barry Road — appetizers, vegetarian and non-vegetarian family dinners, vegetarian specialties, seafood, tandoori, chicken, beef, gosht (lamb), biryani, goat specialties, naan, relishes, desserts and drinks.³ For the itemized menu, see moti-mahal-barry-road; prices at this location were not independently captured.⁵

Ownership and history

The room’s history is the history of Kansas City’s Korma Sutra family. In 2013, when Jorabar “Jay” Shokar opened the first Moti Mahal on NW Prairie View Road, The Pitch identified him as “a partner in the Westport location of Korma Sutra” and wrote that “the food at both locations of Korma Sutra is very good.”⁶⁷ When the Westport Korma Sutra opened, and who Shokar’s partners were, is not documented; the Korma Sutra brand’s remaining room is Korma Sutra in Lenexa, owned by Baljit Singh.

By December 2016 the Pennsylvania Avenue restaurant had taken the Moti Mahal name: a Denver reviewer who called it his favorite Indian restaurant in Kansas City wrote, “Just a name change. Korma Sutra is now Moti Mahal … it’s the same menu, staff and cook.”⁴ The official site numbers the rooms — Moti Mahal I on Barry Road, Moti Mahal II here — and still parenthesizes “Formerly Korma Sutra” after the Westport address, with the same personal e-mail address published for both.²

Links

• Website: https://kcmotimahal.com/
• Online ordering (first-party): https://westport.ordermotimahal.com/
• Westport KCMO directory: https://westportkcmo.com/business/moti-mahal/
• Facebook (linked from Westport KCMO): https://www.facebook.com/www.kcmotimahal.co/

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-28 · Source: the restaurant’s own online-ordering site (westport.ordermotimahal.com) · Confidence: Medium — section headings verified for this location; item-level prices were transcribed from the Barry Road ordering site and are assumed, not confirmed, to match.³⁵ Full itemized menu: moti-mahal-barry-road.

Sources

Footnotes

1. Westport KCMO (merchants’ association) — “Moti Mahal.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: 4113 Pennsylvania Avenue listing; photo captioned “Moti Mahal II” (2024 upload); Facebook link. ↩

2. Moti Mahal — official website, home page. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: “MOTI MAHAL II (Formerly Korma Sutra), 4113 Pennsylvania Ave, Kansas City, MO 64111, Tel (816) 931-7775, Fax (816) 931-7765, Email jorabar123@yahoo.com”; Moti Mahal II hours “Tuesday–Sunday, Monday Closed, 10:00 AM–10:00 PM”; “serving two locations in Kansas City.” ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Moti Mahal (Westport) — first-party online ordering. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: address and phone; business, carryout and delivery hours Tue–Sun 10 a.m.–10 p.m., Monday closed; menu sections (Appetizers through Drinks) matching Barry Road; “Moti Rewards” program. ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Allen P, “Just a name change. Korma Sutra is now Moti Mahal,” Tripadvisor review dated 2016-12-06 (visit December 2016) — Confirms: rename by December 2016; “same menu, staff and cook. Great brunch.” Provisional (user review). ↩ ↩²

5. Moti Mahal (Barry Rd) — first-party online ordering, full menu. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: itemized prices used as the price-band reference for this page (entrées $16.95–$20.95; family dinners $49.95–$96.95). ↩ ↩²

6. Charles Ferruzza, “Moti Mahal takes over Saffron restaurant location,” The Pitch, 2013-10-07 — Confirms: “Moti Mahal owner Jorabar ‘Jay’ Shokar is a partner in the Westport location of Korma Sutra.” ↩

7. Charles Ferruzza, “Moti Mahal isn’t Bollywood-slick, but it isn’t bad,” The Pitch, 2013-11-07 — Confirms: “The food at both locations of Korma Sutra is very good.” ↩