Bombay Brasserie. Bradford, West Yorkshire, England

In 1994, the Sunday Telegraph Magazine in London commissioned Dow to photograph restaurants throughout the United Kingdom that specialized in Southeast Asian fare. In Bradford, he photographed the Bombay Brasserie, a neo-classical building-turned-restaurant. Dow recalls being particularly fascinated by the city’s immigration history and its connection to this establishment:

“In Bradford, the bulk of the immigrants came from Kashmiri Pakistan, arriving in the 1950s and ’60s to work in mills and other industries, making up nearly 25 percent of the population by 2011. Because the manufacturing sites often ran three shifts, a huge number of small restaurants and take-aways served the workers on a 24-hour basis. By the time we arrived in 1994 the mills had long shut and many of the restaurants had shifted to hosting what were known as “curry weekends,” when busloads of tourists would descend on the city to consume curries in a moveable feast. Some places, like the Bombay Brasserie, were set up to offer upmarket service while others stayed their street-corner selves.”