Bombay-inspired London restaurant to create 100 jobs following "significant" expansion works

A Covent Garden restaurant has announced that it will create more than 100 jobs as it gears up to reopen.

Dishoom Covent Garden, which focuses on Irani food, will reopenin late autumn this year after a “significant expansion” of its Upper Saint Martin’s Lane site.

The restaurant closed in January to undergo a “major” redesign, drawing inspiration from 1940s Bombay cinemas.

Dishoom said that the new jobs will partially be allocated through internal transfers and promotions, but that it is also hiring externally.

The company commented: “When the restaurant closed in January, all members of the Covent Garden team were offered roles at alternative cafés.

“Dishoom are pleased to have kept everyone’s jobs through the subsequent disruption brought about by coronavirus, and look forward to warmly welcoming their first-rate team of Dishoom-wallas back to their old home at Dishoom Covent Garden.

“The re-opening will also create over 100 new jobs.

“Inspired by Covent Garden’s rich heritage as a landmark for theatre, cinema and the performing arts, ‘New’ Dishoom Covent Garden will tell the story of Bombay’s theatrical journey from Parsi theatre, to silent film, to the thrill and amazement of the Talkies era.”

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