Gymkhana’s interior design, like Dishoom’s, references the Raj – there are ceiling fans hanging from a dark-lacquered oak ceiling, cut-glass wall lamps from Jaipur, hunting trophies from the Maharaja of Jodhpur and, throughout, the vibe of Raj gymkhana clubs recreated for diners who, you would think, weren’t alive to witness it first time round.Ĭolonial nostalgia isn’t confined to restaurants.
Gymkhana, the London restaurant modelled on joints in Delhi and Mumbai and established by Karam, Sunaina and Jyotin Sethi in 2013, was last year voted the best restaurant in Restaurant magazine’s annual poll of the top 100 in Britain. And today’s bankable nostalgia, if that’s what it is, focuses on the jewel in the crown, India.Ĭertainly, Dishoom is hardly the only restaurant in London where Indians or Britons of Indian ancestry astutely sell a commodified dream of the Raj to Britons. and perhaps share a little bit of our love for Bombay food and culture with them,” Shamil Thakrar has said.ĭishoom is catching a wave of colonial nostalgia as Britons time-travel to the era when the people of this rain-soaked dot in the dismal north Atlantic raped, traded, pillaged and murdered their way to running the biggest empire the world has ever seen. “We feel privileged to be able to serve the guests. Earlier this year, it was voted by reviewers of Yelp as the best restaurant in the UK – beating Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsay’s eponymous restaurant and L’Atelier De Joël Robuchon. In 2010, Shamil and Kavi Thakrar, and Amar and Adarsh Radia, founded the first Dishoom in Covent Garden. There used to be about 400 of these cafes now fewer than 30 – such as Britannia Restaurant and B Merwan – remain. Each of Dishoom’s three branches is designed to evoke the old cafes of Bombay set up by Zoroastrian immigrants from Iran. Gamer Rave - 18+ Event - Fri Raj Sharma - 21+ Event - Sat Weston Estate : Dont Kill The Messenger Tour - Fri The Colors of BANG YONGGUK The US Tour 2023 - Sun Ava Max: On Tour (Finally) - Fri Pride At The Echo 18+ - Sat Fuego - Sun d4vd : Petals to Thorns Tour - Tue Summer Salt - Fri Club 90's presents: Taylor Night - Speak Now Edition - 18+ Event - Sun KXT 91.Dishoom – which means “Kerpow!” in Bollywood films – offers an alluring, if sanitised, reproduction of a dining experience that thrived during the Raj. Gamer Rave - 18+ Event - Fri Raj Sharma - 21+ Event - Sat Weston Estate : Dont Kill The Messenger Tour - Fri The Colors of BANG YONGGUK The US Tour 2023 - Sun Ava Max: On Tour (Finally) - Fri Pride At The Echo 18+ - Sat Fuego - Sun d4vd : Petals to Thorns Tour - Tue Summer Salt - Fri Club 90's presents: Taylor Night - Speak Now Edition - 18+ Event - Sun KXT 91.7 Presents Ben Kweller - Fri Ace Frehley - Sat Havok & Toxic Holocaust - Fri AC Slater - Together Album Tour 2023 - Sat Porter - Wed Peyton Parrish - Thu Y'all Out Boy - Fri An Evening With Black Flag - Thu KAMELOT with special guests BATTLE BEAST and XANDRIA - Wed Kany Garcia USA Tour 2023 - Fri SAINT MOTEL - The Awards Show - Wed James Bay - Tue Dylan Matthew - No Rain No Flowers Tour - Mon Ambar Lucid - Estrella Tour: Part 2 - Tue Lastlings - Perfect World North America Tour - Thu Ne Obliviscaris - Sat Sun Room - Sat Laufey -The Bewitched Tour - Sat Nov 11, 2023
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