The ambience and food served in
London’s Dishoom restaurants are inspired by Bombay’s Irani cafes
For the festive occasion of Jamshedi Navroz, Parsiana brings readers the following recipes, reprinted with permission from Dishoom: "From Bombay with Love” by Shamil and Kavi Thakrar and Naved Nasir with photography by Haarala Hamilton (Bloomsbury Publishing, UK £ 26). Dishoom is a chain of restaurants in London which attempts to recreate the ambience of "an Irani cafe deeply rooted in some aspect of Bombay history,” write the authors, restaurant owner cousins Shamil and Kavi, and their chef Naved.
The first Dishoom restaurant opened in 2010 mainly to serve Londoners good food and drink. But, as the authors’ knowledge of......