In a message to customers, the restaurant said the closure was not a permanent goodbye, describing it as the beginning of a ‘fresh, exciting new chapter’. The team thanked guests for their support over the years and encouraged them to follow the restaurant on social media for future announcements.
The closure comes five years after the restaurant relocated from its former home in a Grade II-listed former magistrates’ court on Prescot Street, which it had occupied since 1995, to the Royal Albert Wharf in London’s Royal Docks.
Cyrus Todiwala began his London restaurant career as head chef at Namasté on Alie Street in the early 1990s. In 1995, he joined restaurateur Michael Gottlieb as executive chef and partner at Café Spice Namasté. Todiwala and his wife, Pervin, became the restaurant’s sole owners in 2005.
Café Spice Namasté held a Michelin BIB Gourmand since the award was created in 1998.
The menu featured dishes including Goan prawn curry with unpolished red rice; smoked cured duck breast with soy, ginger and honey; Parsee lamb dhaansaak, a traditional Parsee Sunday lunch dish; and Bombay crème caramel.
Further details of the restaurant’s next venture have yet to be announced.