Dishoom Kensington

Dishoom Kensington, 4 Derry Street, W8 5SE

Kensington | Dishoom

We serve Thaal feasting menus to groups of 12 or more, and we can accommodate smaller groups on request.

The lower priced menus offer very good value, while the higher priced ones include both a wider selection of dishes, and our more expensive dishes.

(In the unlikely event you run out of Naan, Roti, Raita or Kachumber for any of these menus, it will be our pleasure to bring more.)

Regardless of which menu you choose, there should be more than enough food.

Our reservations-wallas will be very pleased to help you choose a menu.

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Review: Night at the Bombay Roxy at Dishoom Kensington - Exeunt ...

One of them hands me a manila envelope with my instructions for the night: a night at the Bombay Roxy, a fictional facsimile for Dishoom’s newest branch on Kensington High Street.

Night at the Bombay Roxy is immersive theatre lite for the risk-averse, with few demands for participation and only the gentlest of disorientations when you’re temporarily separated from your party of friends.

Director Eduard Lewis does his best with a restaurant space, sight lines and a sound system hardly designed with theatre in mind, and it’s hard not to be taken in by the Bombay Roxy and its well-heeled residents despite the thinnest of plots, ridiculous twists and the most overwrought of characters.

Night at the Bombay Roxy is an homage to the Irani cafes of Bombay on which the Dishoom aesthetic is based, and a charmingly kitsch narrative that fits in with the brand’s attention to ambience and epicurean storytelling.

Night at the Bombay Roxy is at Dishoom Kensington until December 14th.

A first look at Dishoom Kensington | The Independent

Dishoom pays a loving homage to the Irani cafes that were once a significant part of life in Bombay and there is no doubt that the ever so popular luxe chain is doing a good job of upholding these cafes' legacy.

In collaboration with Swamp Productions, Night at the Bombay Roxy transports its audience to a cafe and jazz club in 1940s Bombay, featuring an ensemble of actors and musicians.

Each performance is accompanied by a meal, featuring cocktails and a menu of classic Bombay dishes, as well as plenty of live jazz.

‘Night at the Bombay Roxy’ is at Dishoom Kensington until 14 December.

Dishoom officially opens 15 December, 4 Derry St, Kensington, London W8 5SE.

Dishoom Kensington | An Homage to India's Golden Age of Jazz

The eatery’s fifth branch, Dishoom Kensington is inspired by the golden age of Indian jazz and art deco, styled after 1940’s Bombay.

So it’s appropriate that they’re holing up in the very art deco Barkers Building on Kensington High Street, sprawling over their biggest space yet with seats for 200, and a further 50 in their cocktail den, the Permit Bar.

Parquet floors and softly muted wall colours are illuminated by stunning art deco lighting – but there’s still the characteristic smattering of vintage, post-Independence era bric-a-brac around the space; from vintage posters to table fans and radios.

NOTE: Dishoom Kensington opens on 15th December.

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Night at the Bombay Roxy, Dishoom Kensington review

Art Deco elegance, lively jazz and a feast of curries and spices greet guests at the Bombay Roxy.

Dishoom, the masters of Indian dining with ever-popular restaurants in Covent Garden, Kings Cross, Carnaby Street and Shoreditch, are celebrating the opening of a new South Kensington restaurant with an immersive dining adventure.

Co-founder of Dishoom Shamil Thakrur collaborates with theatre makers Swamp Studios, to transport guests to 1949 Bombay.

The stately Barkers Building is the ideal backdrop for the cocktails, live music and a generous three-course feast, but there's an absorbing undercurrent of activity as snippets of drama unfold around diners.

Fay Maschler reviews Dishoom Kensington: All singing and all ...

Performances of Night at The Bombay Roxy — described as “immersive theatre created by Swamp Studios” — mark the opening of Dishoom Kensington, the fifth Dishoom in London (there is also an outlet in Edinburgh).

I book a table for four lured by the promise of jazz, cocktails, intrigue, hoydenish behaviour, Dishoom dishes and Art Deco glory inspired by the time the location was part of Barkers department store.

The highlight of the meal served between tunes, chases, biffs and bangs is mutton pepper fry, a south Indian speciality purring with spices and topped with curry leaves and fresh lime, that is special to Kensington — in the tradition of each Dishoom having a dish to call its own.

In this we are shown the way by my chum Max Halley, whose mantra for sandwiches in his Crouch Hill outlet is “hot cold sweet sour crunchy soft”.

Fried baby okra are thrillingly brittle and almost savagely spiced; butter, chilli, salt and lime are all vividly and separately discernible on charcoal-grilled corn-on-the-cob Chowpatty Beach style; chana chaat salad looks a sludge but the components hold their own; Dishoom slaw could work with many nationalities of food and the mayo must contain eggs, but it is effervescent with pomegranate seeds and provides a reliable crunch in what could be a sea of soft.

Night at the Bombay Roxy review at Dishoom Kensington, London

Now the company’s creative director Shamil Thakrar has taken that idea one step further for the launch of its new branch in Kensington’s handsome art deco Barker’s building.

The new Dishoom is sumptuously designed, with the restaurant interior intended to resemble an art deco Bombay building in post-independence India.

Cyrus Irani (Vikash Bhai) is fresh out of prison and trying to make a go of it with his hot new jazz club, the Bombay Roxy.

The fragmentation of the story, necessitated by the need to serve a three-course meal to a full restaurant, means that there’s not a lot of time for character development, or even to figure out quite what’s at stake for any of them.

Bhai makes a charismatic host, however, and the performance elements slow things down in an agreeable way, turning dinner into something leisurely and celebratory – and when the music kicks in, the whole thing perks up.