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 Battersea Story
In which a young girl transforms into Choti Dishoom
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...
The Dishoom Canary Wharf story – Chapter Two
On sordid reputations and probing interrogations
The Dishoom Canary Wharf story – Chapter Three
The finale of our founding myth has arrived
The Dishoom Birmingham founding myth
In which Roda Irani finds her voice
The Dishoom Manchester story
In which an elusive Irani dupes Sexton Blake in a Freemasons’ Hall
The Dishoom Kensington story
In which a charismatic but wayward Irani seeks redemption
The Dishoom Edinburgh story
In which Patrick Geddes finds inspiration in Irani cafés
The Dishoom Carnaby story
In which an Irani is called home from London
The Dishoom King's Cross Story
In which a young Irani opens a café in a Godown behind Victoria Terminus, c. 1928
The Dishoom Shoreditch story
In which a journey is made from Bombay to East London...
The Dishoom Covent Garden Story
In which Ruby and Yasmin bewitch Bombay
