The café’s new founding myth transports us to an age of rapid evolution and reinvention. Dishoom Covent Garden’s story and design will draw on this heritage. In the 1930s and 1940s many of Bombay’s foremost theatres were reincarnated as state-of-the-art cinemas, adopting fresh monikers to denote their modernity – popular theatres were reborn as “New” Empire and “New” Excelsior. Inspired by Covent Garden’s rich heritage as a landmark for theatre, cinema and the performing arts, “New” Dishoom Covent Garden will tell the story of Bombay’s theatrical journey from Parsi theatre, to silent film, to the thrill and amazement of the Talkies era. This myth explores the connections between Bombay and the neighbourhood in which the café will take shape, and informs all aspect of the café’s design (no detail too small), weaving together both fact and fiction in unexpected and hopefully fun and charming ways. Imagining each new space as an Irani café rooted in some specific seam of Bombay history, this myth is something of a whimsical riff, bringing together stories of proprietors and patrons both real and imagined. Every Dishoom restaurant has its own unique story – a sort of founding myth. Please kindly read on for a little detail about the new designs and story – further particulars, including launch dates, will be released in due course.Įach Dishoom is a love-letter to Bombay – a way of sharing the team’s love of the city’s culture, heritage and people. The café will pay loving homage to its Irani café heritage, whilst also bringing to life the stories of Bombay’s theatres, which were reincarnated in the 1940s as all-singing, all-dancing talkie houses. The team are delighted to announce that the new restaurant will now reopen at its old home on Upper St Martin’s Lane later this year.
The restaurant closed in January 2020 to undergo a major redesign to mark the café’s 10th anniversary. The Dishoom team are delighted to announce that they will (at long last!) be raising the curtain on the newly redesigned Dishoom Covent Garden in late autumn 2020.ĭishoom Covent Garden, the team’s very first restaurant, opened in July 2010, and was their first attempt to capture the wistful poetry of the Irani cafés of Bombay, drawing inspiration from beloved Bombay institutions such as Britannia & Co., Olympia Coffee House and Kyani & Co.
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