All-day bar-café
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Cocktails!
No matter the hour or shuffling mood at Permit Room – just come as you are.
A rush of fresh flavour at lunch and dinner. Open wide, feast.
Local DJs are on the decks, spinning worn vinyls and favourite grooves.
A salute to the Permit Rooms of Bombay
Permit Room is an all-day bar-café serving up delicious breakfasts, seriously good bar snacks, moreish curries, and plates for sharing (all with a selection of signature Dishoom delights). There’s also a knock-out line-up of cocktails to wash it all down with. It’s our tribute to the way Bombay kicks back and cuts loose – a salute to the city’s permit rooms, beer bars and drinking holes.
In 1949, liquor was banned in Bombay. Enterprising Aunties deftly served drinks from their front rooms, a boiled egg vendor stationed outside as a sign for those who knew. By the 1970s, the law was loosened up: permit holders (having obtained their liquor permits ‘for the preservation or maintenance of health’ no less) could buy alcohol. Permit rooms were officially born.
For the Goodness of One’s Health
All-new all-day bar-café!
Freshly Opened: Liverpool
Built squarely into Merseyside’s Dale Street. Solid stone. Sash windows. Nice columns and symmetry.
Feast. Fill up on small-ish plates, curries, smoky grills and Dishoom faves. Sip something soft or strong (no matter the hour). Drink local beer and coffee, if that’s your thing. Sit back, admire the art (everywhere). Liverpool artists and South Asian hang proud.
Eat, drink, party, linger. Open to all.
Damn good, all day
Food & Drink
Moreish curries, seriously good bar snacks, plates for sharing (and a handful of best Dishoom favourites). Breakfasts too. Wash it down with sharp, twisted, boozy cocktails (they pack a punch). Cold beers and special collabs, if that’s your thing. No matter the hour or shuffling mood at Permit Room – just come as you are.
Food, drink, music, art!
What's on
Weekly DJ Nights
If you’re at Permit Room, be prepared to shimmy. We host different local resident DJs on the decks at each Permit Room every Thursday (and Saturdays at portobello), spinning everything from funk, punk and hip-hop, to Bollywood, disco and soul. Come for a bite, beer, boogie.
Where:All Permit Room locations
When:Thursdays (and Saturdays at Portobello)
Time:7.30pm onwards
Recipes, music, art and neighbourhood things
The Record
Charity
A Meal for a Meal
For each meal you eat at Permit Room, we donate a meal to a child. We’ve now donated over 500,000 meals. We work with two charities – Magic Breakfast in the UK and the Akshaya Patra Foundation in India – who provide nourishing, free meals to children who would otherwise go hungry. We couldn’t have done this without you!
People, Community, Planet
Understanding our impact
We’ve thought a lot about our impact on the world. We've taken time to understand our carbon footprint and taken steps to reduce it. We look after our team and are seen as a great place to work. Now, we’re pleased as punch to be a B Corp.
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