Gorgeous art deco chandeliers drip like jewelry off the ceiling and up on the balcony looking down at the diners, jazz musicians rock the joint. The walls are lined with old style Indian wall fans, desilvered vintage mirrors and faded black and white photos of ghosts of the past. The large clock on the wall is an exact replica of the huge clock on the face of the Mumbai LIC building. The art deco interiors of the Dishoom Kensington restaurant inspired by the Liberty Cinema in Mumbai with Burmese teak paneled columns and marble floors. The dramatic, high ceilinged entrance and teak paneled pillars are drawn from Nazir Hoosein's Art Deco Liberty Cinema and the large clock that holds prominent place in the restaurant is modeled after the clock on Bombay's Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) building. The setting of this Art Deco styled Dishoom Kensington restaurant is a fictional café cum jazz club (The Bombay Roxy) that pulls on architectural elements from the real Bombay of the 1940s. If you're ready for some time travel, step into the Dishoom restaurant on High Street Ken for an extravagant night of jazz and a deliciously good time back in Bombay's glamorous jazz age of 1948. Each Dishoom restaurant is unique and has its own story. Styled in a similar, though smarter fashion, they exude the charm of a bygone romantic era while upscaled for modern day niceties. The Dishoom restaurants in London pay homage to the old Irani cafes of Bombay.
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