“Just like Bombay in the 1950s!” – the “delightfully elegant” interior of this Covent Garden chain-prototype has a suitably “energetic” atmosphere; its “spicy” street food is generally “very flavoursome”, and hailed as “quite authentic” too.
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Breakfast - 8, Sat & Sun 10 , Children's facilities - high or special chairs, Late - yes, Private rooms (capacities) - 80, Last orders - 11 pm, Fri & Sat midnight, Sun 10 pm
What do you want in a chain-style restaurant in the heart of the West End? Comfort? Space? Perhaps an interior with a bit of drama? Good food? Friendy and efficient service. Looked at a whole, this...
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Press Reviews (1)
Zoe Williams (9th December 2010)
7.5/10
Maybe I am a sucker for brightly coloured tiles and droll slogans, but I thought Dishoom was beautiful. Within its genre – canteeny, ironic-ethnic, central-London-young-lunch-brigade – it looks better by miles than any peer I can think of. Modelled on the Bombay cafés of the 1960s, it states its intent as 'faded elegance', and the menu is fusion from a time when 'fusion' was called 'colonialism'.
Zoe Williams (9th December 2010)
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