Dishoom (restaurant)

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Dishoom
IndustryRestaurants
Founded2010
Headquarters London, England, UK
Number of locations
10
Area served
Kensington, Covent Garden, Shoreditch, Canary Wharf, Manchester, King's Cross, Edinburgh, Carnaby, Birmingham, Battersea.
Key people
Shamil Thakrar, [1] Kavi Thakrar, Naved Nasir
Website www.dishoom.com

Dishoom is a small Bombay (Mumbai)-inspired restaurant group with locations throughout the UK. [2]

Contents

Dishoom was founded in 2010 by co-founders Shamil and Kavi Thakrar, along with Amar and Adarsh Radia, who both left the business in 2017. It was designed to match the Irani cafés that were popular in Mumbai in the 1960s. [3] The first Dishoom café opened in Covent Garden in 2010. As of January 2025, there are 10 Dishoom restaurants open around the United Kingdom, with locations in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Birmingham. [4] [5] [6]

In 2020 Dishoom introduced the Dishoom online store to sit alongside their restaurants. [7]

The menu includes breakfast naan breads. [8] Described by some as Indian street food, the restaurant describes its offering as Bombay comfort food with an evolving menu. [9]

Cookbook

In 2019, Dishoom published a cookbook, subtitled "Cookery Book and Highly Subjective Guide to Bombay with Map". The book provides the recipes for many of their popular dishes and cocktails, while also taking the reader on a tour of south Bombay. [10]

Awards

Charity

For every meal Dishoom serves, it donates "a meal to a child who would otherwise go hungry. A meal for a meal." They work with the charities Akshaya Patra [27] (India) and Magic Breakfast [28] (UK), founded by Carmel McConnell. "Collectively, Magic Breakfast and Akshaya Patra serve 21.8 million children in England, Scotland and India." As of January 2025, Dishoom claims to have donated over 20 million meals. [29]

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