This year, celebrations must necessarily take a different shape for Dishoom.

Working with state schools across India, Akshaya Patra provides nutritious free midday meals to millions of children daily, helping to provide the energy and security they need to realise their full potential.Īkshaya Patra works with over 19,000 state schools across India, supporting over 1.8 million children. ‘Akshaya Patra’ translates as ‘unlimited vessel of food’. Just as Dishoom’s ethos is to bring people from all walks of life together over a delicious meal and break down barriers in doing so, The Akshaya Patra Foundation also believes in the power of food to break down barriers. This ensures children at risk of hunger continue to have access to a nutritious breakfast regardless of school closures. Throughout the pandemic Magic Breakfast has continued to support schools, adapting their in-school breakfast provision model and working with schools to offer take-home packs, as well as home deliveries for vulnerable or hard-to-reach children through their partnership with Amazon. The Covid-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the tragic levels of child poverty in the UK. Magic Breakfast for the past 20 years have worked tirelessly to ensure that no child goes hungry and has access to a delicious, nutritional breakfast. Dishoom cares deeply about breaking down these barriers, which tragically remain a very real and ever-present problem in the UK and India.Įven before the pandemic, up to 1.8 million school children in the UK were at risk of hunger in the morning. The business is now delighted to announce that they have donated over a whopping 10 millions meals to children in the UK and India with their charity partners, Magic Breakfast and Akshaya Patra.īoth charities provide nutritious free meals to school children, ensuring they arrive in the classroom with full bellies and enquiring minds, helping to end food poverty as a barrier to education. This commitment began during Ramadan as Dishoom’s act of charity (‘zakat’) and was made permanent at Diwali the same year. Since 2015, every meal served by the Dishoom team has donated a meal to a child in the UK and India that lives in impoverished communities who may have otherwise gone hungry – the campaign titled a ‘meal for a meal’ Everything Dishoom does shares its love for Bombay’s culture, heritage and people, and everyone is welcomed with warmth.

Like the old Irani cafés, Dishoom breaks down barriers: in its restaurants and delivery kitchens, which employ and serve people from all walks of life, at its events, and through charity, donating a meal for every meal served – 10 million meals so far.ĭishoom serves a lovingly curated menu of Bombay comfort food and award -winning drinks in beautiful restaurants and (since 2020) via delivery for at-home enjoyment.

2 cultural events dishoom per year