We hate to be unfair and write a blog post about a restaurant during its most challenging time – their soft launch. But we’re going to anyway because the restaurant is Dishoom and we love it unconditionally. This is despite them giving me one of the most horrendous and humiliating hangovers of my life at the Kings Cross branch launch party and the putting us through the occasional(but well worth) queue.
It was five years ago that we first discovered Dishoom, thanks to Marina O’Loughlin’s column in Metro. It’s no coincidence that it was around the same time that we started We Love Food. We’ve visited over 500 restaurants since that point but when we’re asked what our favourite London restaurant is(which is practically every time we meet a fellow food lover), Dishoom is always up there, yet we can never remember the last restaurant we visited.
It’s not just the food, it’s the story behind it, the people who bought it to life and the feeling it.