Dishoom is on the expansion trail once again, with the launch next week of the first London branch of its Permit Room sub-brand in Notting Hill, followed by the opening of a main Dishoom in Glasgow this summer and a first international foray billed for next year.
Until now, Permit Rooms have been confined to smaller cities – Brighton, Oxford and Cambridge – taking their name from the first wave of bars to get a licence to serve alcohol in Bombay as the prohibition of India’s independence era began to ease. The new branch has taken over the premises of the former Portobello Road Distillery.
Much of the menu will be familiar to visitors to the seven Dishooms in London, including the famous breakfast bacon naan and their black dal, plus a lively selection of cocktails.
Dishoom Glasgow will open in the former stock exchange building on Nelson Mandela Square, making it the second branch in Scotland after Edinburgh and the 11th overall. Dishoom was launched in Covent Garden in 2010 by brothers Shamil and Kavi Thakrar, who now have New York in their sites for their first international opening next year.
