Dishoom restaurant has its own back story. This one is inspired by its location—an old railway transit shed. The restaurant imagined a young Irani immigrant in 1928, who sees the opportunity to start selling chai to railway workers, and slowly builds a ramshackle Irani restaurant. Dishoom King’s Cross is this restaurant decades later, now established, even something of an institution, and still serving the local people, railwaymen and office workers. The name itself —Godown—is an old Indian word for warehouse. Its aesthetic is reflective of a late 1920s’ railway transit shed.

Like the first two of Shamil and Kavi Thakrar’s London restaurants, the third Dishoom pays homage to the Irani cafes that sprung up around Bombay—now Mumbai—during the first half of the 20th century. The aim was to recreate the atmosphere of that narrative in a section of warehouse behind Central Saint Martins art college, and to continue the legacy of the handful of these cafes that remain in Mumbai. Inspiration for the look and feel came from old Indian train paraphernalia mixed with the vintage Bombay style that runs through all their restaurants.............Read more

Source web page: The New Indian Express