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DISHOOM


FROM BOMBAY WITH LOVE

All welcome
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All Welcome
April
13th 2024
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   Food & drink Breakfast, lunch, afternoon chai, dinner and late tipples. Menus
   Read our food & drink menus. Permit Room Discover something new from Dishoom
   
   
   SUGGESTED READING
   
   
   THE HISTORY OF CHAI
   
   Why this spicy-sweet cup of comfort is so important to us. Kindly read on
   here.
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   Journal Eclectic collection of things to read, watch, make and do. Contact us
   Say hello, leave feedback or get in touch with a café. Charity Breaking down
   barriers: a meal for a meal and knots of protection. Careers For big-hearted
   and talented people. Events Bringing people of all walks of life together to
   celebrate culture and food. Permit Room Explore something new from Dishoom.
   
   
   SUGGESTED READING
   
   
   INTRODUCING PERMIT ROOM
   
   Beaming through a tucked away corner of Brighton’s busy lanes, Permit Room is
   open and ready to welcome one and all. Not to be confused with the buzzy bars
   in our Dishoom cafés, this Permit Room is an outpost all of its own. Read on.

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THE OLD IRANI CAFÉS OF BOMBAY

ABOVE: The legendary B. Merwan on Bombay’s Grant Road dates from 1914 and is
still open.

THE OLD IRANI CAFÉS have almost disappeared. Their faded elegance welcomed all:
rich businessmen, taxi-wallas and courting couples. Students had breakfast,
families dined, lawyers read their briefs and writers found their characters.
Fans turned slowly. Bentwood chairs were reflected in stained mirrors, next to
sepia family portraits.

Opened early last century by Zoroastrian immigrants from Iran, there were almost
four hundred cafés at their peak in the 1960s. Now, fewer than thirty remain.
These cafés broke down barriers by bringing people together over food and drink.
They were the first places in Bombay where people of any culture, class or
religion could take cool refuge from the street with a cup of chai, a simple
snack or a hearty meal. People from all walks of life shared tables, rubbed
shoulders and broke bread together.

Shared spaces beget shared experiences, and Bombay was more open and welcoming
for the existence of these cafés.

Dishoom pays homage to the Irani cafés and the food of all Bombay.



THE OLD IRANI CAFÉS of Bombay have almost all disappeared. Their faded elegance
welcomed all: courting couples, sweaty taxi-wallas, students, artists and
lawyers. These cafés broke down barriers by bringing people together over food
and drink. Bombay was more welcoming, more cosmopolitan, for their existence.
Dishoom pays homage to the Irani cafés and the food of all Bombay.


Food & Drink


ALL DAY, EVERY DAY

Bombay breakfast, lunch, afternoon chai, dinner and late night tipples.
Available for delivery.

Food & Drink


BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS

Food is a way of breaking down barriers, and this is at the heart of what we do.
Since Ramadan 2015, for every meal we serve, we donate a meal to a child who
would otherwise go hungry. A meal for a meal. So far, we’ve donated 20 million
meals (...and counting).



Read more


CELEBRATING DIFFERENCES

Our events bring people of all walks of life together to celebrate culture and
food. Whether it’s bringing together non-Muslims to celebrate Eid, non-Hindus to
celebrate Diwali, or people of every possible background to tie Knots of
Protection – we create shared spaces where differences are celebrated rather
than judged.

Read more


CELEBRATING DIFFERENCES

Our events bring people of all walks of life together to celebrate culture and
food. Whether it’s bringing together non-Muslims to celebrate Eid, non-Hindus to
celebrate Diwali, or people of every possible background to tie Knots of
Protection – we create shared spaces where differences are celebrated rather
than judged.

Read more


BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS

Food is a way of breaking down barriers, and this is at the heart of what we do.
Since Ramadan 2015, for every meal we serve, we donate a meal to a child who
would otherwise go hungry. A meal for a meal. So far, we’ve donated 20 million
meals (...and counting).



Read more



ECLECTIC GIFTS AND SUNDRIES FOR ALL PERSONS AND PURSES

An ample selection of finest gifts and sundries are now available by way of the
Dishoom Store.

An eclectic and charming mix of gifts to please favoured siblings, exacting
Aunties and the hard-to-buy for. From small bestowals to bountiful hampers,
there’s something for all persons and purses any time of the year.

All are so lovely you might just want to keep them for yourself! From Chai
Hampers and Tea Towel gift-sets to Naan Roll Kits for at-home enjoyment.

Or bring Dishoom home with signature favourites from our cafés. Find House Chai,
the signature Masala Dabba, our best-selling Cookery book and calming incense.
Explore the Store




INTRODUCING PERMIT ROOM, AN ALL-DAY BAR CAFÉ

Our shiny new all-day bar-café is a salute to Bombay’s eating and drinking
culture, smack-bang in Brighton’s Lanes.

We’ve got round-the-clock deliciousness from morning until late with an all-new
menu (alongside some Dishoom favourites). Pop by for a Bacon Naan Roll first
thing, grab craveable snacks and savouries for lunch, or hang here till late
with seriously good cocktails (Feni Martini or Mango Lassi Punch, though? That’s
the question). All while stomping your feet to a playlist of punk, hip-hop,
disco and soul.

Expect to have a damn good time.


Read the café stories


SUGGESTED READING

See the journal


VAISAKHI

Vaisakhi, a day marked across India by people of many faiths, is celebrated in
the Punjab as the start of the new Harvest. It falls on the 13th or 14th April
depending on the calendar for that year.


DISHOOM LOVES. ISSUE XV.

Spring has gently tiptoed in. As the days lengthen and the sun grows bolder,
here’s a glimpse of what we eagerly await in April.


AYESHA ERKIN SHARES ONE OF HER DELECTABLE DATE RECIPES

We’re turning page after page of Ayesha Erkin’s recipe book Date of the Day,
featuring 30+ recipes for the modest date – timely for breaking fast and after.
Our dear friend Ayesha has now kindly shared a recipe for you to make at home.
Try it this Iftar or any time you need a salty-spiced sticky treat.


OUR CHERISHED CHAI

Stop by any Bombay tapri (street stall), café, or home, and you will likely find
yourself with a gently steaming glass of chai in hand. Before the invention of
chai, Bombayites drank kadha, an ayurvedic remedy for coughs and colds made of
boiled water and spices like cardamom, cloves and nutmeg. Eventually locals
started adding tea leaves, milk, honey and sugar to their ‘kadha’. Chai was
born. 


AWARDS & ACCOLADES

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BEST SMALL GROUP


GOOD FOOD GUIDE UK

2017


BEN MCCORMACK


SQUAREMEAL

Dishoom was a game-changer: stylish, affordable and with a defiantly youthful
outlook that was more focused on how Londoners wanted to eat in the 21st-century
than outdated British attitudes to both Indian cuisine and India itself.


RANKED #4 BEST COMPANY TO WORK FOR


BEST COMPANIES

2021


WINNER OF BEST BREAKFAST & BRUNCH


HARDEN'S

2019


RICHARD VINES


BLOOMBERG

The staffers are friendly, the prices are low and the food is first-class. I had
one of my most enjoyable meals of the year here. Dishoom well encapsulates the
current trend for quality without fuss.


AWARDS AND ACCOLADES


RANKED #4 BEST COMPANY TO WORK FOR


BEST COMPANIES

2021
See our awards


REWARDING CAREERS AT DISHOOM

If you’re a big-hearted person looking for a first-class career in hospitality,
read on.

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