Dishoom, the London Indian restaurant group, is aiming to open its first U.S. location in March 2027, according to executive chef Arun Kumar. The restaurant is planned for Nomad.

Caper reported earlier this year that the address is 11 E. 26th Street, near Madison Avenue. The source material does not say whether the group has confirmed that location itself.

The opening would add to a run of London-born Indian restaurants arriving in the city. Chef Thomas Straker opened his namesake restaurant in Soho this month. Ambassadors Clubhouse, a Punjabi-leaning restaurant known for being hard to book, debuted in Nomad earlier this year.

Dishoom has been building its profile here ahead of the debut. On Tuesday, October 13, Kumar cooked a family-style dinner benefiting Food Bank for NYC, alongside Sujan Sarkar, the chef behind the British Indian chophouse Elder. Kumar's dishes included the restaurant's chicken ruby, its version of butter chicken, along with keema pau, a spiced minced lamb dish with peas. He also served black dal and a lamb nihari biryani, brought out with its crust. Sarkar made jackfruit cutlets with a piccalilli puree and a roast duck over ghee rice with a Tellicherry peppercorn jus.

Dishoom takes its cue from the Iranian immigrant-owned all-day cafes of 1960s Mumbai, when the city was still called Bombay. Cousins Shamil Thakrar and Kavi Thakrar opened the first restaurant in 2010 with Amar Radia and Adarsh Radia. The Radia brothers left in 2017. The company has since opened locations across the United Kingdom, along with an all-day bar called Permit Room. Its eighth London restaurant opened last week in Borough Market. Dishoom tested the New York market with a pop-up in 2024.

The U.S. expansion is its first outside the U.K. It is backed by investment from the private equity firm L Catterton, which partners with the luxury goods company LVMH.

Sarkar, for his part, has been busy. Elder is his second full New York restaurant, following Indienne, his Chicago tasting-menu concept that expanded upstairs at the Hudson Yards building. He is working on a South Asian cocktail bar, Apas, at the same address, with an opening planned later this year. He also runs Butter Chicken Social, a butter chicken stand inside the Midtown food hall Shaver Hall.

The March date is a target, not a commitment. No opening has been announced beyond Kumar's timeline.