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Lunch at Dishoom Shoreditch in November 2026: the Lunch Spread, a Bombay-style feast of small plates, curries, rice and bread that keeps arriving at the table, plus a Hunterwali’s Julep to wash it down.
Dishoom Shoreditch
Dishoom is a group of restaurants inspired by the old Irani cafés of Bombay. The Shoreditch café opened in 2012 at 7 Boundary Street, and the room is all dark wood, marble-topped tables, old photographs and vintage Bombay curiosities.
Hunterwali’s Julep
Our drink of choice was the Hunterwali’s Julep, one of Dishoom’s signature cocktails. It’s rum with fresh ginger, spearmint, pineapple and jaggery, served over crushed ice in a copper cup. It’s named after Fearless Nadia, the whip-cracking star known as “Hunterwali” who was Bombay’s top box-office draw in the 1940s. Across the table was a pink cocktail with lime whose name we didn’t catch.
The Lunch Spread
The Lunch Spread is a set menu that brings a little of everything to the table. Ours was the non-veg version at 42.00 per person. It runs from 12pm to 5:45pm, and the sides are refilled until you say “No more!”
Starters: okra fries, corn bhel and keema pau
First came okra fries, crisp and salty with a dark dipping sauce, and the corn bhel: crispy corn and papdi with pomegranate and tamarind on a nest of crackled spinach. Then the keema pau, spiced minced lamb with peas served with soft, buttered pau buns for scooping.
Curries, daal and pulao
Then the mains: the Chicken Ruby in a rich makhani sauce, the House Black Daal (Dishoom’s signature, cooked for over 24 hours) and the Chicken Berry Pulao, saffron rice studded with barberries and sultanas with chicken hidden underneath. A bread basket of plain and garlic naan and roomali roti came alongside to mop it all up.
Check your weight
Dishoom also has an old “Check Your Weight” machine, all flashing lights. The Hindi line on the front translates roughly as “The fun is in eating, not in getting fat”, which felt like a fair warning after the Lunch Spread.
Tips for the Dishoom Lunch Spread
- Go hungry. The Spread is a lot of food, and the sides keep coming if you ask.
- It’s only served at lunch, from 12pm to 5:45pm.
- There’s a Grill Platter add-on (lamb sheekh, chicken tikka and tenderstem broccoli) at 13.00 per person, but the whole table has to order it.
- Groups of 10 or more are asked to order from the Lunch Spread menus.
Where to stay
Dishoom Shoreditch is about a 10-minute walk from The Hoxton on Great Eastern Street, where we stayed on our 2024 London trip.
More London food: our week in London and our London food and pubs guide.
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