Every Dishoom starts with a story

Designing our cafés

With every new Dishoom we open, we always imagine an Irani café deeply rooted in a different aspect of Bombay history. We then sit down and write a café story – a founding myth, if you will – that guides each and every detail of that space.

As you will find, no two founding myths are the same, helping us to create a distinct personality for each Dishoom, as unique as it is – or will come to be. Each of our café stories can be found here, for your leisurely exploration. We gently encourage you to delve into them all.

Founding myth

The Dishoom Glasgow story

In which Miss X comes face-to-face with her past.

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The Dishoom Battersea story

In which a young girl transforms into Choti Dishoom

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The Dishoom Canary Wharf story

In which the canny and ambitious son of a humble Irani café owner ends up in way over his head...

Founding myth

The Dishoom Canary Wharf story – Chapter Two

On sordid reputations and probing interrogations

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The Dishoom Canary Wharf story – Chapter Three

The finale of our founding myth has arrived

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The Dishoom Birmingham story

In which Roda Irani finds her voice

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The Dishoom Manchester story

In which an elusive Irani dupes Sexton Blake in a Freemasons’ Hall

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The Dishoom Kensington story

In which a charismatic but wayward Irani seeks redemption

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The Dishoom Edinburgh story

In which Patrick Geddes finds inspiration in Irani cafés

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The Dishoom Carnaby story

In which an Irani is called home from London

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The Dishoom King's Cross story

In which a young Irani opens a café in a Godown behind Victoria Terminus, c. 1928

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The Dishoom Shoreditch story

In which a journey is made from Bombay to East London...

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The Dishoom Covent Garden story

In which Ruby and Yasmin bewitch Bombay






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