Shamil Thakrar

Shamil Thakrar co-founded Dishoom in 2010. Dishoom now has 8 sites in the UK and employs over a thousand people. Before 2010, he had, amongst other things, been a management consultant for 5 years and worked in the food industry for 8 years. Shamil and the Dishoom team care enormously about creating beautiful and inclusive shared spaces which pay homage to the old Irani cafés of Bombay. They also care deeply about creating a company which is an awesome place to work.
The Sunday Times ranked Dishoom #20 in its ‘100 Best UK Companies To Work For’ list in 2020. Dishoom was also given the Best Concept award in the Retailers’ Retailer of the Year Awards in 2019 and voted Most Admired Brand by leading operators in the 2018 Peach Heroes and Icons awards. Shamil and his fellow co-founder Kavi were given the Restaurateur of the Year award in the 2018 Catey Awards.