Mowgli Street Food
UK-based Indian restaurant chain
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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. As of 2025[update], it has 27 branches. Through the Mowgli Trust the company and its employees have raised £2.7 million to charities as of March 2026[update].
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| Industry | Casual dining |
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| Genre | Indian cuisine |
| Founded | 2014 in Liverpool, England |
| Founder | Nisha Katona |
| Headquarters | , England |
Number of locations | 27[1] (2025) |
| Revenue |  £40.4 million[2] (2024) |
| £512,000[2] (2024) | |
| Owner |
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Number of employees | 833[2] (2024) |
| Website | www |
History
Mowgli Street Food was founded in 2014 by former barrister and YouTube cook Nisha Katona.[4] She opened the first restaurant on 23 October 2014 in Bold Street, Liverpool.[5]
Katona chose to focus on home-cooked Indian cuisine rather than the traditional Anglo-Indian cuisine served in most Indian restaurants in the UK.[4] In 2018, she published a book Mowgli Street Food: Stories and recipes from the Mowgli Street Food restaurants,[6] which was followed in 2021 by 30 Minute Mowgli: Fast Easy Indian from the Mowgli Home Kitchen.[7]
By 2019, Mowgli Street Food had seven restaurants and a turnover of £10 million.[4] In 2021, with 12 restaurants across the north of England, the first London restaurant opened in Fitzrovia.[8]
In 2023, when the chain had expanded to 15 restaurants, private equity firm TriSpan acquired a stake in the company.[9][10] TriSpan owns part of Vietnamese restaurant chain Pho, and Rosa's Thai Cafe,[9] 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.[2][11]
In 2023, the company made a loss of £476,000 on sales of £30.8 million.[2] In 2024, it returned a profit of £512,000 on sales of £40.4 million, with 833 employees.[2]
As of September 2025[update], there are 27 Mowgli Street Food restaurants.[1]
Mowgli Trust
Mowgli Street Food and its employees raise money for health and education charities through the Mowgli Trust.[5] As of March 2026[update], the trust had donated £2.7 million to various charities, including over £325,000 to Claire House Children's Hospice in the charity's home city of Liverpool.[12]