Mowgli Street Food is a restaurant chain in the United Kingdom that serves Indian cuisine. It was established in Liverpool in 2014 by Nisha Katona, a former barrister. , it has 27 branches. Through the Mowgli Trust the company and its employees have raised £2.7million to charities .
History
Mowgli Street Food was founded in 2014 by former barrister and YouTube cook Nisha Katona. She opened the first restaurant on 23 October 2014 in Bold Street, Liverpool.
Katona chose to focus on home-cooked Indian cuisine rather than the traditional Anglo-Indian cuisine served in most Indian restaurants in the UK. In 2018, she published a book Mowgli Street Food: Stories and recipes from the Mowgli Street Food restaurants, which was followed in 2021 by 30 Minute Mowgli: Fast Easy Indian from the Mowgli Home Kitchen.
By 2019, Mowgli Street Food had seven restaurants and a turnover of £10million. In 2021, with 12 restaurants across the north of England, the first London restaurant opened in Fitzrovia.
In 2023, when the chain had expanded to 15 restaurants, private equity firm TriSpan acquired a stake in the company. TriSpan owns part of Vietnamese restaurant chain Pho, and Rosa's Thai Cafe, as part of its Arcturus Group. TriSpan also acquired the share owned by Foresight Group, who had invested in the business in 2017 when it had three restaurants.
In 2023, the company made a loss of £476,000 on sales of £30.8million. In 2024, it returned a profit of £512,000 on sales of £40.4million, with 833 employees.
, there are 27 Mowgli Street Food restaurants.
Mowgli Trust Mowgli Street Food and its employees raise money for health and education charities through the Mowgli Trust. , the trust had donated £2.7million to various charities, including over £325,000 to Claire House Children's Hospice in the charity's home city of Liverpool.
References
External links
Mowgli Trust