We went for a couple of small fishy Small Plates the Dishoom calamari (£5.90) and the prawn koliwada (£6.20. Dishes come as smaller helpings for sharing, or go solo with some of the larger options. HALAL STATUS Halal lamb & chicken (HFA-sourced) Alcohol served Pork on the breakfast menu only.Dishoom in Kensington is the latest branch to open of this popular, award-winning London restaurant chain that’s styled itself after Bombay’s once ubiquitously popular Irani cafés of yesteryear. Inspiration for the look and feel came from old Indian train paraphernalia mixed in with the vintage Bombay style that runs right through all their restaurants. They are hyper-enthusiastic if you need advice on the menu, which is inspired by Bombay’s old Irani cafes. The name itself – ‘Godown’ – is an old Indian word for warehouse. Dishoom King’s Cross is this restaurant decades later, now established, even something of an institution, and still serving the local people, railwaymen and office workers of the local area. Dishoom imagined a young Irani in 1928, who sees the opportunity to start selling chai to railway workers, and slowly builds a ramshackle Irani restaurant. They worked on their new logo, menus, exterior signage, cocktail packaging and a number of other printed pieces.Įach Dishoom has its own back story, and this one is inspired by its location – an old railway transit shed.
They are one of my favourite places to dine in the city, and now have 5 separate branches. For breakfast, Ive liked the Kejriwal (fried eggs on chilli cheese toast) and Keema Per Eedu ( chicken keema, chicken liver, fried eggs, and crisp chips). With & SMITH’s most recent project they helped to launch a new restaurant in King’s Cross – the Dishoom KX Godown. Dishoom is something of a London legend, having opened their first restaurant in Covent Garden in 2010. My favorite menu items from the all day menu include the Masala Prawns, the spicy lamb chops, Dishoom Chicken Tikka, and Keema Pau (popular menu item at the Irani cafes). The film stars John Abraham, Varun Dhawan and Jacqueline Fernandez alongside Akshaye Khanna as the antagonist, marking his comeback to acting after a. Dishoom’s concept takes inspiration from Bombay’s beautiful old Irani cafés. Bang) is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language buddy cop action comedy film directed by Rohit Dhawan, produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, and written by Rohit Dhawan and Tushar Hiranandani. The creative guys of & SMITH have been working with Dishoom over the last two years to evolve their visual identity and help with anything print based. Our favorites were the prawn koliwada appetizer, the house black daal, and the mutton pepper fry. Here, you can order tasty Bombay cuisine off the large, newspaper-styled menu while enjoying a casual, Indian summer breeze kind of vibe. There’s nothing to truly lift the all-day menu to those heights – but it’s still an atmospheric spot to while away an hour or so.Dishoom KX Godown – restaurant brand identity design by studio & SMITH Dishoom is a very popular Indian restaurant with a couple locations around central London. It’s millennial gospel that Dishoom’s breakfasts are some of the best in town. Grilled lamb chops had a good char and a zingy sprinkling of pomegranate, but were a tad too fatty and thickly marinated while a roomali paneer roll was outright poor, the cheese insipid, a wedge of green leaves mere ballast and the tomato sauce cloying and one-note.
Hot and Sour Soup spicy A8.99 Machow Soup A8.99 Sweet Corn Soup A8.99 Creme of Tomato Soup. Our food preparation contains traces of peanuts, tree nuts, milk, seeds, soy and wheat. Pair with a bowl of umami-heavy black dal and you’ve got one of London’s best sub-£10 lunches. Menu Information Light and Tasty - To Start Eat and Chat. At lunch, waiters find joy in delivering trays of abundant food to your table. Savour the fragrance of freshly-baked pau, the rich salty taste of butter melting on a bun dipped in hot chai, the warm indulgence of Akuri, the wistfulness of a moment. Sticking with the small plates reaped rewards, particularly the fried prawn koliwada – delicate, fragrant shrimps, served with a zesty green chutney for dipping – and a chilli-cheese toast of sliced white laden with melty cheddar, green chillies and leeks. BEGIN THE DAY with a bowl of Date & Banana Porridge or a Bacon Naan Roll. There’s also a semi-alfresco villa space which will doubtless be a breezy treat come summer.īut foodwise, it’s a mixed bag. First off, this Shoreditch branch of the Parsi-café-themed Indian looks as lovely as you’d expect: a multi-level warren of wooden panelling, clackety tiles and old-world Malabar Coast ephemera.