Dishoom Covent Garden, at 12 Upper St Martin's Lane in St Martin's Courtyard, was opened in 2010 by co-founders Shamil Thakrar and Kavi Thakrar, along with chef Naved Nasir. The first location of the now-iconic London restaurant group celebrating the spirit of the disappearing Irani cafés of mmid-20th-century Bombay and its faded colonial grandeur.