North Kensington, Indian Restaurant Guide

Dishoom impresarios, Shamil and Kavi Thakrar opened the first London branch of their Dishoom-lite chain in the Portobello Road in May 2025 (after our survey had concluded). This Notting Hill newcomer follows successful debuts in Brighton, Cambridge and Oxford, offering an all-day, bar-café version of the Dishoom formula – from breakfast with sharing plates and cocktails – inspired by Bombay’s ‘permit rooms’ (essentially drinking dens during India’s 1940s Prohibition). The four-storey Victorian property, formerly a gin distillery, also marks the group’s first departure into accommodation (with a hotel on the top two floors).