Ajo Idea SpaceCafé · Art · Community
01613-161616
Uttara · Dhaka — Est. as an idea space

Where art, food & people gather.

Ajo Idea Space is a pavilion-style café and cultural space in Uttara — part restaurant, part gallery, part gathering place — with a second home in Gulshan.

4.3 3,671 Google reviews · Uttara
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Inside a greenery-filled café space with warm light
A tree grows inside

The Uttara pavilion was built around a living tree — dining happens under a prefabricated metal vault, in the shade of green.

4.3 ★
Google rating · Uttara
3,671
Google reviews
2
Branches — Uttara & Gulshan
BAID 2025
Berger Award for Interior Design
Warm restaurant interior with communal tables
Award
Berger Award for Interior Design (BAID) 2025

Winner, Professional category — Ajo Idea Space, Gulshan, designed by Ar. Md Rabiul Islam of GoAAT.

Our story

An idea, built like a pavilion

Ajo Idea Space was founded by Khaled Mahmud, an artist and entrepreneur who grew up around a family food business of some sixty years. Ajo is where that food heritage meets his other life — art, architecture and the simple idea that a café can be a cultural space.

The original Uttara space is a pavilion beside a park: a prefabricated metal vault for a roof, a living tree growing through the dining area, and a top floor kept for the community to gather. In Gulshan, the second branch continues the philosophy — a space built with repurposed material by GoAAT (Group of Architects and Thinkers).

  • Asian fusion kitchen — Italian, Mexican, Indian & Asian influences
  • Ticketed supper-club dinners, hosted at the Uttara space
  • An art gallery alongside the Gulshan café, inside the Ikebana Experience Centre
Experiences

More than a café

People come to Ajo to eat — and stay for everything around the food. Four ways to experience the space:

A plated fine-dining course at a supper-club table
Ticketed evenings

The Supper Club

On select evenings, Ajo hosts ticketed supper-club dinners by Arpon — intimate, set-menu nights where the room, the art and the food are all part of one experience.

Seats are limited and announced in advance. Guests reserve by leaving their details through the Ajo Idea Space Facebook page.

Ticketed at BDT 7,500++ per guest, as reported by The Daily Star. Follow the Facebook page for the next date.

The café

One kitchen, four food cultures

Ajo's kitchen is listed as Asian fusion — and the menu travels. These are the cuisines our guests come back for:

Italian-style pizza, freshly baked

Italian

Comfort plates from the Italian kitchen — a regular favourite on the Ajo menu.

Mexican tacos with fresh toppings

Mexican

Bright, bold Mexican flavours — the spicy counterpoint to a slow afternoon.

An Indian curry served with rice

Indian

Indian classics, cooked with the confidence of a sixty-year family food heritage.

An Asian rice bowl with vegetables and egg

Asian Fusion

The house style — Asian dishes and fusion plates that tie the whole menu together.

The full menu and today's specials live on our Facebook page — or call 01613-161616 and ask what's cooking.

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Visit us

Two spaces, one idea

Ajo began in Uttara and grew a second home in Gulshan. Both are cafés; both are cultural spaces.

The warm dining room of a restaurant
The original

Uttara

House 14/A, Road 2, Sector 13,
Uttara, Dhaka 1230
★ 4.3 · 3,671 Google reviews Open daily · 11 AM – 11 PM

The pavilion beside the park — a metal-vault roof, a tree growing through the dining room, and the community floor upstairs. Home of the supper club.

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An elegantly set table for an evening meal
BAID 2025 award winner

Gulshan

House 12, Road 101, Gulshan-2,
inside the Ikebana Experience Centre, Dhaka
★ 4.2 · 259 Google reviews

Built from repurposed material by GoAAT, the Gulshan space pairs the café with an art gallery — and took home the Berger Award for Interior Design in 2025.

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Contact

Come by, call, or find us on Facebook

Ajo runs on conversation. Supper-club seats and café updates are announced on our Facebook page — and the phone is always the fastest way to reach the Uttara space.

Call 01613-161616 facebook.com/AjoIdeaSpace
Phone
+880 1613-161616
Call for tables, gatherings & enquiries
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Ajo Idea Space
Supper-club seats & updates are announced here
Uttara
House 14/A, Road 2, Sector 13
Uttara, Dhaka 1230
Hours
Open daily · 11:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Uttara café hours