Current & Past Events
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Well Crafted Women Episode 1
23rd June 2026
Presenting Well Crafted Women, an intimate event series hosted at Café Jikoni at the V&A East Museum, celebrating brilliant women at the top of their craft.
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![A table with a variety of dishes including a rice bowl with radish slices, carrots, and sprouts, a salad with pomegranate seeds and vegetables, and a grain dish with herbs and vegetables. There is a bun sandwich on a gray plate, a blue napkin with cutlery, and a colorful book titled 'Jikoni' with illustrations of birds and fruits.]()
Jikoni x Darbar Festival Residency
23rd-26th October 2025
Jikoni in partnership with Benugo will bring their no-borders kitchen and ethos to the Barbican as they collaborate with the Darbar Festival, London’s annual celebration of Indian classical music. -
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Jikoni x Frieze
15th-19th October 2025
This October over 60,000 people will descend on Regent's Park for Frieze London and Frieze Masters art fairs and we’re very excited to be heading back for a fourth year.
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Jikoni at Fortnum & Mason
9th May - 18th May 2025
Ravinder Bhogal and Nadeem Lalani Nanjuwany, co-founders of Jikoni, will join forces with Fortnum & Mason to bring their unique expression of maternal, cross-border cooking to the Piccadilly Flagship.
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![A promotional flyer with four photos of women and text announcing Jikoni's 8th birthday fundraiser dinner and online prize competition on Sunday, 17th November at 6 pm. The flyer mentions the event is in collaboration with Ravinder Bhogal, Gerogina Hayden, Tarunima Sinha, and Samantha Hine, and indicates it is a charity event for raising funds.]()
Jikoni's 8th Birthday Fundraiser Dinner
17th November 2024
Ravinder Bhogal will host Jikoni’s birthday fundraiser in collaboration with her dear friends and colleagues Georgina Hayden, Tarunima Sihna and Samantha Hine.
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Ravinder & Jay Rayner
15th August 2021
Join author and Jikoni’s chef patron Ravinder Bhogal as she celebrates a year of her cookbook Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen.
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![Promotional poster for Channel 4's 'This Week on Sunday Brunch' featuring hosts and guests, including Joe Pasquale, Mr. Eazi, Rachael Stirling, Jake Bugg, Sophie Thompson, Paul Carrick Brunson, Anna Williamson, Jack Sturgess, Gabe Cook, and Ravinder Bhogal.]()
Sunday Brunch
23rd February 2023
Our Co-Founder Ravinder Bhogal appears on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch with Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer to cook a Jikoni signature – Prawn Toast Scotch Eggs with Banana Ketchup.
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Jikoni Wine Week
30th April -5th May 2024
A celebration of over 25 wines by the glass, featuring wines from organic, biodynamic, female and minority owned vineyards from around the world.
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Comfort & Joy Delivery
5th June 2020
Comfort & Joy - Globally inspired veg with benefits, sends vibrant, vegetarian meal boxes to your door, with two different boxes each week, available hot or “Heat-at-Home” and in a weekly subscription.
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Festive Season at Jikoni
December 2023
Our festive menus are now up and running and you can come in and indulge on your usual Jikoni favourites as well as some special new dishes that are cooked with our unique “no borders” approach.
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Valentines at Jikoni
12-13th February 2023
Jikoni will host a very special Valentine's brunch with a banquet of sumptuous mezze-style sharing dishes to tuck into with pals, gals and lovers – sharing after-all is caring!
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Jikoni Annual Fundraiser
10th September 2023
Chef, author and activist Ravinder Bhogal, will host Jikoni’s annual fundraiser at the restaurant in Marylebone, in collaboration with Emma Freud OBE.
Civilised Sundays
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Jikoni x Nik Sharma
26th November 2023
Ravinder will be hosting celebrated and award-wining author, photographer, and recipe developer Nik Sharma for our next Civilised Sundays installment.
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![A woman with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a black top, holding a small cup. Behind her is a colorful, ornate blue and yellow patterned wallpaper. To her left is a book titled 'Med: A Cookbook' by Claudia Roden, featuring an illustration of water or a textured pattern on the cover.]()
Jikoni x Claudia Roden
10th October 2021
We will be hosting one of Ravinder’s personal food heroines: Claudia Roden, one of the most respected and best-loved food writers in the business discussing her new book Med.
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Jikoni x Anita Rani
19th September 2021
We welcome award-winning broadcaster and author Anita Rani, who will be in conversation with Ravinder Bhogal discussing her brilliant first book, The Right Sort of Girl, published in July 2021.
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![A book cover titled 'Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from the Eastern Mediterranean' by Yasmin Khan, featuring images of fresh figs on a decorative tile background, and a portrait of a woman with curly black hair wearing a denim shirt.]()
Jikoni x Yasmin Khan
11th April 2021
Travel across the Eastern Mediterranean without the air miles with bestselling author and broadcaster Yasmin Khan as she launches her third, highly anticipated book Ripe Figs.
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![Book cover titled 'Empireland' by Sathnam Sanghera, with a portrait of a man wearing glasses and a gray blazer.]()
Jikoni x Sathnam Sanghera
7th March 2021
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a digital series of our sell-out Civilised Sundays program this March welcoming author Sathnam Sanghera.
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Jikoni x Caleb Azumah Nelson
28th March 2021
26-year-old British Ghanaian photographer and writer Caleb Azumah Nelson will take to our digital stage and read from his stunning debut novel Open Water .
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Jikoni x Mira Manek
26th January 2020
Ravinder Bhogal and Mira Manek invite you to a languorous, unhurried Chai Salon with a vegan Gujarati inspired brunch at Jikoni.
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Jikoni x Romy Gill
24th November 2019
To celebrate the launch of Romy Gill’s beautiful new book Zaika – a treasure trove of delicious and accessible Indian vegan recipes, Jikoni presents a special Sunday brunch.
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Jikoni x Nitin Sawhney
9th February 2020
Civilised Sundays at Jikoni celebrates Nitin Sawhney and our shared love of immigrant culture and cuisine and his gutsy politically charged storytelling.
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Jikoni x Anoushka Shankar
14th November 2021
We welcome accomplished composer, sitarist and activist, Anoushka Shankar. She will be discussing her life and music, inducing her most recent release Love Letters, PS.
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Jikoni x William Dalrymple
6th October 2019
Award-winning historian, travel writer and master storyteller William Dalrymple will be reading from his new book The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.
