Table Talk: Dishoom

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🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Kavi and Shamil Thakrar are cousins, and they're also the co-founders of restaurant chain, Dishoom, inspired by the cafes of early 20th century Bombay. They join Lara and Livvy to celebrate the launch of their first cookbook, and chat Bombay street food, the risks of profit-maximising, and the great British curry house.

Table Talk is a series of podcasts where Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts talk to celebrity guests about their life story, through the food and drink that has come to define it. Listen to past episodes here.

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0:19.2	Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectator's Food and Drink podcast. I'm Laura Prendergast.
0:25.0	And I'm Olivia Potts. And we're delighted today to be joined by Shmir and Kavi Thakra, the co-founders of the
0:30.8	restaurant group, Dishoum. Inspired by the cafes of early 20th century Bombay, their restaurants have
0:36.6	reinvigorated Indian food in the UK.
0:39.6	Their new book, Dishoum, from Bombay with Love, is out now. Welcome to our podcast. Thank you.
0:44.9	Thank you very much. Thanks for having us. So we'll start where we always start at the very beginning.
0:49.7	Your cousins, first of all. You both grew up in London. Is that right?
0:56.1	More or less, actually. I suppose we... We are definitely cousins, not of all. Indeed. We both grew up in London. Is that right? More or less, actually. I suppose we're definitely cousins, not more and less cousins. We grew up in, we grew up in Leicester for a bit as well.
1:03.2	Okay. But were you both in the same place at the same time? Yes. Ten years apart. Yes. Well,
1:08.5	we're ten years apart, but we grew up in the same house. So tell us about that. What was food like when you were growing up? Ten years apart. Yes. Well, we're ten years apart, but we grew up in the same house.
1:11.8	So tell us about that.
1:13.6	What was food like when you were growing up?
1:14.5	Ten years apart.
1:19.3	We, I mean, it's a joint family, and I guess, and I'm sure, Gavi, I don't know if this is true for you,
1:22.2	but I remember always a table replete with food.
1:31.8	And especially our grandmother was always in the she was always cooking up a storm and she was always cooking everything for everyone that was really difficult and involved and and there would be loads of people around there would be a table full of food and that is my memory of sort of food in our family
1:36.7	where it was it was a real way to bring the family together yeah every day yeah yeah and then the
1:42.1	weekends our weekend meal was it was was a huge deal as well.
1:44.8	And what were the kind of classic dishes that you'd be eating?
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