Once Upon a Time
The first Bombay Bicycle Club Restaurant opened in Nightingale Lane, Clapham, 20 years ago and is a regular favourite of many of London’s top chefs and
restaurant critics.
With an increasing demand for a home delivery and catering services, the first stand alone kitchen was opened in Queenstown Road in Battersea in 1995, followed by a further nine kitchens. All of our restaurant's qualities have simply been transferred to these kitchens where we provide the finest quality food for your home delivery or special event. A further two restaurants were opened in Holland Park and Hampstead offering the finest dining experience north of the river.
Today we are proud to boast our distinctive restaurants, popular delivery kitchens and our unique catering and events division.
The Bombay Bicycle Club was a stylish gathering place on the Indian sub-continent where colonial officers would take trips, country picnics always with delicious food. Like Kava Khanna (tea houses) it was a place to catch up on local gossip and events of the Raj, at its height in 1895.
Indian cuisine has benefited from thousands of years of overlapping influences.The Greeks and the Persians arrived first from the West followed by the Murghals. Apart from building the Taj Mahal,the Murghals introduced Saffron, Garam Masala and other spices to Indian cuisine.
Buddhism and Hinduism dominated the food culture. Vegetables were spiced to excite the palate
and cooked in a water-based sauce, which became known as CURRY (Tarri).
It is this philosophy of creating simple, yet fresh and inventive Indian food, using raw ingredients of the
highest quality, that is fundamental to The Bombay Bicycle Club today. Our menu is designed to suit the
taste of the European palate; spicy and aromatic but not searingly hot. Our chef will be pleased to prepare
your meal to your specific taste.