Why you should experience Bombay Sizzlers in Tokyo, Japan.
Bombay Sizzlers is a worldly Indian restaurant where Kyobashi's international business character, Jeetendra and Jalpa Khemlani's decades across Asia, charcoal tandoor cooking and regional Indian recipes bring a family's long hospitality journey to Central Tokyo.
Set along Chuo-dori near Kajibashi-dori and just steps from the National Film Archive of Japan, the restaurant occupies the ground floor of Tokyo Square Garden with a dining room designed by Jalpa Khemlani and a terrace facing the surrounding Kyobashi streets. Chefs from several regions of India move between charcoal-fired kebabs, naan, curries, biryani and vegetarian preparations, giving the kitchen enough breadth to travel well beyond a single regional tradition. Non-vegetarian dishes use halal meat, and Grover wines from India join domestic and international bottles on a drinks program developed to accompany the spice-driven cooking. The result is a Kyobashi restaurant where an Indian family's years in Mumbai, Jakarta, Sakhalin and Hokkaido converge around the food they chose to bring to Tokyo.
What you should know about Bombay Sizzlers.
Bombay Sizzlers is best known for opening in Kyobashi in 2021 under husband-and-wife team Jeetendra and Jalpa Khemlani after Jeetendra had spent decades building a hospitality career across several countries. Jeetendra began in a Mumbai hotel before helping a relative establish an Indian restaurant in Jakarta, remaining there for three years and later accepting an invitation from an American customer to open another Indian restaurant on Sakhalin. Eight years on the Russian island brought regular business trips to Hokkaido, and the Khemlanis eventually moved to Sapporo so their sons could attend an international school. Jeetendra spent another thirteen years operating Indian restaurants in Hokkaido before the family moved to Tokyo, fulfilling his long-held ambition to return to the scale of city life he had known in Mumbai. Tokyo Square Garden beside Kyobashi Station became the location, and Bombay Sizzlers opened there in September 2021 with Jalpa designing the interior. The restaurant brought together chefs from different parts of India and built its menu around charcoal-tandoor cooking, curries, breads and a substantial vegetarian repertoire. The Khemlanis' path to Kyobashi spans Mumbai, Jakarta, Sakhalin, Hokkaido and Tokyo, giving the restaurant an unusually extensive backstory for an operation that arrived in the capital only five years ago.
Tandoori grills provide the clearest introduction to the kitchen as chicken tikka, lamb and seafood take on the concentrated heat of the charcoal oven before reaching the table with spice and smoke still prominent. Curries widen the repertoire through chicken, lamb, seafood, dal and paneer, allowing several Indian cooking traditions to share the same meal without collapsing them into one generic curry style. Biryani changes the texture through long-grain basmati rice cooked with herbs and spices, with shrimp among the versions paired with cooling raita. Naan emerges directly from the tandoor in preparations extending from plain and garlic to cheese, keema and Kandhari, giving the bread enough variation to become part of the ordering strategy itself. Bombay Sizzlers gains its strongest culinary range from moving among those forms of heat and texture, carrying the meal from charcoal and blistered bread toward layered rice, slow-built curries and cooling accompaniments.
How to fold Bombay Sizzlers into your trip.
Bombay Sizzlers works as the dining destination within a Kyobashi route connecting Japan's national film collection, the art patronage of Bridgestone founder Shojiro Ishibashi and a district whose relationship with cinema stretches back to the Meiji period.
Begin at the National Film Archive of Japan, whose lineage started in 1952 as the film-library section of the newly established National Museum of Modern Art in Kyobashi. The operation expanded into the National Film Center in 1970, gained a Yoshinobu Ashihara-designed Kyobashi building in 1995 and became an independent national institution in 2018; by March 2025, its Sagamihara Conservation Center held more than 90,000 Japanese and foreign films across three vault buildings. Continue to Artizon Museum, descended from the Bridgestone Museum of Art that Shojiro Ishibashi opened on January 8, 1952 on the second floor of the Bridgestone Building. Ishibashi established his foundation in 1956 and donated most of his collection in 1961; after the original museum closed in 2015, Museum Tower Kyobashi rose on the site and Artizon opened there in January 2020 with galleries twice the size of its predecessor. Conclude with a walk through Kyobashi itself, where cinemas operated from the Meiji period and Nikkatsu completed its former headquarters in 1930, establishing a screen-history connection that preceded the national film institution by decades. Bombay Sizzlers completes the progression inside Tokyo Square Garden through a newer chapter of Kyobashi's international life, bringing the Khemlanis' journey across Asia to the district in 2021.
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