Mowgli, the acclaimed Indian street food restaurant, has announced it will be opening in Bristol this summer. Originally intending to come to the city in 2019, it has faced delays getting planning permission due to Covid.
The new restaurant will take over a site on Corn Street previously occupied by Pizza Express.
Founder Nisha Jatona said in a Facebook post: “I will keep growing Mowgli while you still want her and I choose my cities according to your requests here on social media. By personally doing all Mowgli’s social media it means there is no distance between your voice and my hearing. This is the hope I have in keeping her relevant and ‘yours’ above all things. Mowgli Brighton opens Feb 24, Edinburgh opens April 23, Bristol and Beverley open summer 2023.”
Nisha founded Mowgli in 2014, leaving her career as a barrister to build the chain that specialises in authentic Indian street food. She revealed last year that the business was interested in a second site in London and opening in Knutsford and Bath. Asked if she had considered international expansion, she said: “I would go overseas, but I do think that we have a lot of runway in this country and I’m just starting to gently think about going to other countries. Maybe The Netherlands, Germany and the USA could be places that we could go. But right now, I have to find somewhere in Cambridge and Newcastle and I’ve got my plate full here, really.”
In 2018 Mowgli was awarded a placement in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 list.
