New York Is Getting Closer to Its First Dishoom

The keema pau from Dishoom at Elder. | Nadia Chaudhury London restaurants are in love with New York City: Just this month, butter chef Thomas Straker opened his namesake restaurant in Soho; earlier this year, Punjabi-leaning and impossible-to-get-into Indian restaurant Ambassadors Clubhouse debuted

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London restaurants are in love with New York City: Just this month, butter chef Thomas Straker opened his namesake restaurant in Soho; earlier this year, Punjabi-leaning and impossible-to-get-into Indian restaurant Ambassadors Clubhouse debuted in Nomad.

In 2027, London Indian phenom Dishoom is joining that party. The heralded Indian restaurant is aiming to open its first U.S. location in March, according to executive chef Arun Kumar. Caper reported earlier this year that the restaurant is opening in Nomad at 11 E. 26th Street, near Madison Avenue.

Dishoom is raising its profile in the city ahead of the debut, where Kumar cooked a family-style dinner with the restaurant’s famous chicken ruby (its spin on butter chicken); the chewy keema pau (spiced minced lamb with peas), the creamy lush black dal, and the decadent lamb nihari biryani, served with its crust.

Kumar joined chef Sujan Sarkar of NYC British Indian chophouse Elder for a dinner benefiting Food Bank for NYC on Tuesday, October 13. Sarkar made jackfruit cutlets with a piccalilli puree, and a roast duck atop ghee rice doused in Tellicherry peppercorn jus.

Dishoom is an ode to the Iranian immigrant-owned all-day cafes from 1960s Mumbai — when the city was called Bombay. Co-founders Shamil Thakrar and Kavi Thakrar (who are cousins), and Amar Radia and Adarsh Radia opened the first restaurant in 2010. (The Radia brothers left in 2017.) Dishoom expanded with locations across the United Kingdom and opened its all-day bar, Permit Room. The company just expanded with its eighth location in London’s Borough Market last week. Dishoom tested the New York waters with a pop-up in 2024.

Dishoom’s first expansion outside of the U.K. is happening with the help of investment from private equity firm L Catterton, which partners with luxury goods company LVMH (Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, Celine, etc.).

Sarkar recently opened Elder, his second full NYC restaurant after expanding his Chicago tasting menu Indienne upstairs at the Hudson Yards building. Not to keep still, he’s working on opening a South Asian cocktail bar, Apas, at the same address later this year. He also runs a butter chicken stand, Butter Chicken Social, inside Midtown food hall Shaver Hall.