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, smoky grills, 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
A sweet fresh start
Limited-Edition Navroz Special
Navroz (Parsi New Year) is here. Clean slates. Goodbyes. Reason to cheer. Most Zoroastrians celebrate the new year in March. For Parsis, it’s August.
In honour – our Navroz special: Lychee & Raspberry Shrikhand. Very thick, very nice yoghurt with cardamom. Covered in pinks: plump lychees, just-picked raspberries and rose syrup.
Here briefly: Monday 10th – Sunday 23rd August, every day from 12pm.
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
Carrom Night
Play Carrom – Bombay’s signature tabletop game – every Tuesday at Permit Room, 8pm onwards. Simply book or walk in and let your server know on arrival that you're here to play. Once you’ve eaten, a board will appear, and rules will be explained (beginners welcome and encouraged). Then, revel in fast-paced flicks and signature strikes.
Join us for a damn-good Tuesday night of feasting, drinking and competition (friendly or otherwise).
Where:All Permit Rooms
When:Every Tuesday, 8pm 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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