Event
Diwali House Party
All-out celebration in our brand-new home: late-night games, crafting, mehendi and a live DJ to stomp with to abandon. Bites and tipples aplenty.
With every new Dishoom, we imagine an Irani café rooted in a different chapter of Bombay's history. We then write an accompanying story – a founding myth that guides every last detail of the space. Our Borough café is no different. With Shakespeare’s Globe a short walk away, we naturally began with Romeo and Juliet. Its legendary prologue takes sonnet form, as does every stanza of another cherished text: Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate. And so, crafting a sonnet of our own felt entirely fitting.
Set in 1950s Bombay, amid the clamour of Crawford Market, the tale follows two young lovers caught between rival families and faiths. As you glance about our Borough café, allow us to set the scene of two people who should never have looked at each other...
Much drama and the heartbreak of two people who should never have looked at each other.
Brought to Life
In
Dishoom Borough Café.
Much drama and the heartbreak of two people who should never have looked at each other.
Brought to Life
In
Dishoom Borough Café.
Welcome to
Dishoom Borough
1950s Bombay, Crawford Market. Everywhere: light, chatter, spices, fruits, vegetables and flowers in vivid displays. Loud calls from vendors proclaim the excellence of their wares. And beneath it all, a darker trade of hush-hush deals and hafta. It is in this world we lay our scene…
Dishoom Borough comes to life amid the clamouring backdrop of Bombay’s Crawford Market, at 11–13 Park Street. Open all day, every day, serving Bombay comfort food for breakfast, lunch, dinner and evening tipples. All are welcome.
Food & Drink
At Dishoom Borough
BEGIN YOUR DAY at Dishoom with breakfast or brunch, which might be a Bacon Naan Roll, a Benne Dosa (with melty-cheesy-potato insides) or Cinnamon-Jaggery Pancakes. Tired heads will be happily refreshed with bottomless House Chai or perhaps a round of Bloody-Gosh Marys. Lunch lightly on a Paneer Roomali Roll and Pineapple Chaat Salad, or linger with a feast of grills and café favourites.
As evening falls, Gimlets, Sours and crisp Kingfishers pour giddy from the bar. And for dinner, no quarrel can be had with a good and proper Chicken Ruby, signature House Black Daal and slow-cooked biryanis. Fill bellies. Loosen belts.
See the menus
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Exclusive
Specials
Borough
KERALAN PEPPER CHICKEN
You never tasted such delight. Butterflied chicken, black as night from bountiful spice, roasted slowly ’til smoky, but soft. A boat of coconut-mellowed pipil-pepper and curry-leaf sauce sits alongside. Douse it, then mop with flaky-golden Malabar paratha. Crunch the crisp onion salad – tickle the senses.
All day menu
BLACK & THUNDER FLIP (UP)
A coupling of two Indian loves: Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch and Thums Up (cola). Vigorously reduced with cinnamon, then chilled and richly frothed with whole egg, cream and nutmeg. Finishing is such sweet sorrow. Sip and sin again.
Drinks menu
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Secure your seat
At Borough
The Hop Exchange11–13 Park Street
Reservations
Dishoom is mostly a walk-in café. All are welcome, any time, no reservations needed. However, if you'd like to make a reservation, groups of any size may book during the day. After 6pm, we accept bookings for groups of six or more.
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Event
Chai Pe Charcha with Kavi Thakrar
Join us for an intimate conversation with co-founder Kavi Thakrar on walking your own path in work, love and family. Partake over bottomless chai.
Event
Family Storytelling with Chitra Soundar
Spark little imaginations with a wondrous Diwali reading from children's author Chitra Soundar, then make your own festive cards. Ages 4–9 and grown-ups.
Private Dining & Events
Gather gladly for feasting and much frivolity. Join us, be it a birthday, anniversary, work-do or long-awaited reunion. Eat your way through Bombay with a choice of three magnificent Group Feast menus. Silken curries and plentiful sides to savour. Spirit-lifting tipples to clink. Morning ’til night.
Market Corner (private): 24–26 guests. A tucked-away corner for unhurried breakfast meetings, client lunches and birthday to-dos. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The Green Room (private): 80–88 guests. The largest room, taken over for grandest occasions and big-cheer celebrations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The Green Room (half space – semi-private): 27–44 guests. Half the room, happily set aside for get-togethers of every kind. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Let merriment commence. Kindly enquire here.
Make an enquiry
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Crispy-flaky parathas with melty-molten cheese centres. Dunk happily into freshest green chutney, fiery with chilli and bright with lime.
