When you walk into Dishoom — there are eight locations across the U.K., from London to Manchester — you’re immersed in a story. Every sense of where you were before opening the door changes: It’s a different country, perhaps a different year. This was a purposeful choice by owners and cousins Shamil Thakrar and Kavi Thakrar, who, along with Chef Naved Nasir, have created immersive-experience restaurants that aren’t kitsch, because these stories are told with such intention.
“Food is obviously very visceral and stories, I think, are the next most visceral thing, because stories are our identity,” Shamil told me over the phone.
