Our Story

The Birth of Bismillah Biryani Bismillah Biryani was born in Singapore. It belongs to nowhere else. We didn't arrive with a recipe borrowed from another country. We began with a question: What would the perfect biryani taste like for this city? Singapore is a crossroads. For centuries, spices from across Asia have flowed through this island. Malay, Indian, Arab, and Chinese influences converge in markets, kitchens, and family tables. We grew up in that abundance. We cooked wi

Over two decades ago, when we started the biryani business, we put up a sign in the Dunlop Street outlet, still there on the wall, that spoke of our philosophy at Bismillah. It is even more true today than it was at the time. It influenced our choice of the things that go into the cooking of biryani and everything else that affects your health and well being. It led us to offer three portion sizes, small, regular and large, for you to choose from. It is the amount of food you

I see people branding biryani to countries or large tracts of geographical locations: Pakistani biryani, Indian biryani, Hyderabadi biryani, etc. Bismillah is often mentioned as Pakistani biryani by our competitors. I’d like to think that a rose is a rose by any other name. Biryani was not born in the Indian subcontinent, nor did it migrate later, after the creation of these two countries, to yet another region. Different locales have had their influences on this centuries-ol