FARGO-A restaurant that offered Pakistani and Iranian dishes has closed in downtown Fargo after having operated for less than a year.

Darbar Palace is the latest in a fairly long line of restaurants that made their home at 402 Broadway in recent years.

Owned by Ahsan Khalid, a native of Pakistan, and his wife, Samiye Ahsan, a native of Iran, the restaurant opened in June of 2017 in the space formerly home to Magnolia's Restaurant.

Rodolfo Romo Garcia operated Magnolia's Restaurant there from February until May of 2017. Garcia, who was also the proprietor of three Romo's Tacos restaurants, blamed the abrupt closure on a worker shortage at the time.

According to a Forum story published May 31, Khalid said Darbar Palace was a joint venture between the couple and Garcia.

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Just two days later, on June 2, Garcia was reported missing by his family after failing to show up for work at his Romo's Tacos location. Khalid told investigators during the missing person investigation that he had given Garcia $25,000 over the course of two months. He said former employees and other business associates also claimed Garcia owed them money.

On Sept. 7, 2017, The Fargo Police Department announced on its Facebook page that Garcia had been located and that the investigation would be closed.

Before it was Magnolia's Restaurant, 402 Broadway was home to Kitchen Gremlin from October 2015 to December 2016.

Prior to that, the location was home to John Alexander's, a Moorhead restaurant that moved to 402 Broadway in the fall of 2014. John Alexander's replaced Juano's Mexican Restaurant, a restaurant owned by Juan and Annele Mondragon that had operated there for 19 years.

But the long run of restaurants utilizing that location may have come to an end.

Jamie Hager, regional manager for MetroPlains Management, which owns the space, said the company is looking at a possible rehab project that would make the space usable for other businesses.

"It's a great location," Hager said.