Dishoom is opening a tiny hotel in London

This week London will see the arrival of Dishoom’s newest outpost, the Permit Room, in Notting Hill. Now it’s been revealed that their new hangout is also a teeny tiny hotel, with rooms to rent above the resto which resides inside a three-story building. 

If you’re not familiar with Dishoom, where have you been? Since opening its first spot in Covent Garden in 2010, the elevated Indian joint has become one of London’s most dependable chains. Inspired by Bombay cafés of the 20th century, its most popular dishes include a creamy black daal, a rich ‘chicken ruby’ curry and egg and bacon breakfast naans. 

Soon two bedrooms will be available to rent above the new all day bar-café, which officially opens on Friday, May 9. Dishoom founders Shamil Thakrar and Kavi Thakrar told Bloomberg that the rooms aren’t quite finished yet, and they are still deciding how much each one will go for, and how long the minimum stay will be, although it’s likely to be a two-night minimum with a maximum of one week. ‘We don’t want it to be so expensive people can’t afford it,’ Kavi said. 

The founders suggested that residents in the hotel rooms might be able to have food from the restaurant delivered to their rooms, but this is not confirmed yet, while guests will have priority booking of the downstairs tables. 

‘The concept of having bacon naan first thing in the morning when you roll out of bed in your pj’s is alluring,’ Kavi told Bloomberg. ‘We imagine people sitting on the sofa and having food delivered to them.’

Dishoom already has Permit Rooms in Brighton, Cambridge and Oxford, but this will be the first to open in the capital. Dishoom describes its sister brand as ‘a salute to Bombay’s permit rooms, beer bars and drinking holes’ – bars that opened in the Indian capital in the 1970s after prohibition was lifted. 

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