2024

YIN YANG RESTAURANT

World cuisine restaurant €€
5/5
1 review

This is one of Thamel's most popular restaurants, and it's Thai. Its assets: a green, shady terrace, attentive service and authentic, high-quality Siamese cuisine. Try the Kaeng Phed Kai or Kiao (green or red curry), pad thai and soups such as a subtle Tom Yum with coconut milk, lemongrass and chili pepper. Whole steamed fish served under cloches is also delicious. A place that will delight vegetarians, as the menu features 100% green Thai specialties. A place to try.

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 Kathmandu
2024

FIRE AND ICE PIZZERIA

Italian restaurant and pizzeria €€
5/5
1 review

In season, the place is packed and, without a reservation, you often have to wait to be allocated a table in this pizzeria with its stylish decor. Retro Italian advertising posters, a brick wall and convivial wooden tables invite you to sit on colorful stools. Thin-crust pizzas are crisp and the ice creams artisanal, just like in Italy. Tiramisu is a star of the menu, while pastas, salads and antipasti are a change from Himalayan dishes. Some evenings, live bands perform.

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 Kathmandu
2024

RAITHAANE

World cuisine restaurant

Mathilde, a Frenchwoman based in Patan, combines French savoir-faire and Nepalese gastronomy in a menu of gourmet dishes to share. Her à la carte Nepalese recipes from different regions of the country (Tharu, Thakali, Newa, etc.) have been drawn from family kitchens, sherpa kitchens and the kitchens of rural dwellers. The dishes are sometimes unusual, but always delicious, made from local produce. The setting reflects the dishes, decorated with great taste and character.

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 Patan
2024

ANNAKOOT VEG- VEGAN CUISINE

Tibetan Nepalese restaurant

Don't look for an entrance visible from the street, you'll have to climb to the second floor of a Thamel building to find this small local address frequented by regulars. You'll be seated around small tables set up with kitsch oilcloths. The cuisine is vegetarian and vegan, with local specialties, at very low prices and efficient service. We love the flavors of the dishes here, absolutely authentic and assertive. A real favorite.

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 Kathmandu
2024

CAFE ACTIVE ANT

Asian cuisine restaurant

This is the small, family-run restaurant to try out in Bandipur. Its entrance is not hard to find on the village's main square, although it is discreet. Once past the very low doorway of this traditional house, you'll discover the kitchen straight away! Then there are a few tables on the terrace, and a staircase leading to the other tables, also on the terrace, with a view of the forest below. We loved the home-cooked dishes, and recommend you make yourself a small assortment of veg and non-veg snacks and share a local Kanak set(dal bhat).

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 Bandipur
2024

SANCHYAN RAMEN RESTAURANT

Japanese restaurant

A little piece of Japan in the middle of Patan. This friendly address, with its small dining room, concocts Japanese specialties in front of you in an open kitchen, and frankly has no reason to be ashamed of Tokyo's street food scene. Fresh cuisine, efficiently prepared. We loved the ramen, the house specialty, as well as the teryaki, suhsis, bento box and other lesser-known dishes, such as fried chicken karaage, that we don't often get to taste with such authenticity in Europe.

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 Patan
2024

THE THIRD EYE RESTAURANT

Tibetan Nepalese restaurant €€

Long-established, this is one of Thamel's best-known addresses, famous for its Indian specialties and especially its tandooris prepared in a traditional oven, especially the herb-marinated chicken, which retains all its tenderness (you can adjust your chilli level). Naans and thalis are also delicious. For a more authentic meal, take a seat on the cushions around a candlelit coffee table indoors, or in the pleasantly romantic, quiet garden. Very hearty portions.

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 Kathmandu
2024

CAFFE CONCERTO

World cuisine restaurant €€
4.3/5
3 reviews

An institution in Pokhara, Caffe Concerto is a pizzeria and jazz bar that marries pizza and live music to perfection. This two-level restaurant has a pleasant setting. The cuisine is mainly Italian: pizzas made just like in Italy, with thin, crispy dough, but also pastas, salads, ice creams... There's always music playing in the background, but it's at dinnertime that the evening comes to life when the musicians take their places, making it an excellent place to enjoy a glass of wine.

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 Pokhara
2024

OR2K

World cuisine restaurant
4.3/5
3 reviews

Tired of Nepalese, Asian and Western cuisine? Here's a resto that's a little hippy, a little bobo and a little touristy, serving delicious organic, vegan and vegetarian Levantine cuisine. In the heart of Thamel, on several floors, you can enjoy delicious small dishes (humus, shakshuka, bowls, falafels or antipasti platters) in a colorful, bohemian oriental decor. Sitting cross-legged on thick cushions in front of large low wooden tables, you can dine or sip a cocktail under the subdued glow of a candle. Also an address in Pokhara.

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 Kathmandu
2024

BIG BELLY RESTAURANT

World cuisine restaurant
4/5
1 review

In the heart of Thamel, this completely renovated establishment is a mecca for Kathmandu's trendy youth. The chef offers Nepalese, Indian and Chinese specialities as well as some continental dishes (pizza, fish & chips). It is said that the crispy chicken momos are among the best in the neighborhood. The breakfast is copious. Service smiling and considerate, TV screens galore without being noisy, and small peaceful and colorful courtyard. In short a nice and rather quiet place where it is good to take a break.

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 Kathmandu
2024

SHIVA CAFE CORNER

World cuisine restaurant
3/5
1 review

This café overlooks Durbar Square and even has a few small tables on the terrace where you can relax and watch the activity around. Inside, there is a "neighbourhood café" charm and, if you avoid the crowds of tourists, you can lean down at the counter and find a Nepalese willing to give you some good tips on the area. Remember that you will pay here more for the view and the moment than for the quality of the menu or the quality of the café, although it is not undrinkable.

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 Bhaktapur
2024

JUST ANOTHER RESTAURANT

Fusion restaurant and international cuisine

It's hard to find a nice restaurant in the vicinity of the Pashupatinah temple, close to the airport and drowned in a dense suburb of Kathmandu. JAR for Just Another Restaurant is a relaxing bubble in the area, ideal for a delicious lunch break. The restaurant opens onto its garden through large bay windows. The bar is ultra-modern and plays on pop art codes. The menu offers salads, burgers, wraps... and some very good Nepalese dishes (momos in particular), although beware: some dishes are very spicy!

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 Pashupatinath
2024

BHĀPA COFFEE

World cuisine restaurant

A small, very local café where it's good to settle down on pretty wooden tables, in a well-decorated place adorned with green plants, pretty black-and-white photos of Nepalese portraits and a shelf with old cameras. A pleasantly arty setting frequented by young hipsters. It serves excellent coffees, a delicious coconut chocolate frappé, homemade lemonades, tasty Nepalese dishes such as keema noodles and momos, and excellent burgers. Also sandwiches to take away for a picnic.

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 Swayambhunath
2024

ROADHOUSE CAFE

Fusion restaurant and international cuisine

Pokhara's Roadhouse Café is very different from Kathmandu's in Thamel. From this lively Lakeside street along the lake, you can't miss the bar's remarkable design, with its exposed stone wall. Inside, under a high-ceilinged hall, a successful indus style with convivial tables, a cinderblock counter (!) and brick walls, the setting is superb. The menu features pasta, lasagne, sandwiches, burgers and pizzas, all hearty and tasty. This is a busy restaurant (with tourists), so reservations are recommended.

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 Pokhara
2024

SHANTIKO KITCHEN

Fusion restaurant and international cuisine

A fun, trendy place to take a break and eat well in an arty atmosphere. Shantiko Kitchen serves organic coffee from Kar.Ma Coffee (whose brand exists in Kathmandu, among other places), proof of the quality of its offer, and proposes only vegan and vegetarian dishes, with a lot of creativity. Why not try a butter masala paneer - be careful, it stings! or a homemade curry? The panelling on the ceiling and the graffiti mural of the tiger attract a rather urban and young crowd, as do the beautifully presented plates.

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 Sauraha
2024

LAVIE GARDEN

Asian cuisine restaurant €€

This restaurant with a French name is an unpretentious but very popular address in Bodnath, which also has a hotel. The setting has a lot to do with it: surrounded by greenery, the terrace is magnificent and romantic, especially in the evening when it's lit up with loupiotes. We love the small plates of gourmet snacks, veg and non-veg, and the dishes are always well prepared, tasty and diligently prepared, even if it's an extended menu (Nepalese, Indian, continental, burger, sandwiches, etc.), which is the classic offering of Kathmandu's restaurants.

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 Bodnath
2024

KOTETSU

Japanese restaurant €€

This is Kathmandu's refined Japanese restaurant, located in the chic Lazimpat district of the Ambassador Hotel. The sushi bar in particular is stocked with ultra-fresh fish cut into delightful makis, nigiris, sashimis, rolls and more. But there are other Japanese specialties on the menu that would be a shame to miss. Baked fish, tempura, teppan yaki (a kind of Japanese plancha) and many other delicious and authentic dishes. The chefs officiate from behind their open kitchen in a sober Japanese setting.

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 Kathmandu
2024

CAFE SWOTHA

World cuisine restaurant €€

Located near Swotha Square, in the center of old Patan, this small restaurant is tucked away in a quiet cul-de-sac, and even has tables on the terrace in a small back garden. No Nepalese specialities here, but tasty continental breakfasts and dishes, for those who get bored of local gastronomy. Particularly at breakfast, service is fast and impeccable. At lunchtime, the organic salad with goat's cheese, walnuts, olives and sun-dried tomatoes is particularly light. Sandwiches are a hearty option.

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 Patan
2024

KOTO RESTAURANT

Japanese restaurant

Fed up with Nepalese, Western and Chinese Thamel dishes? Here is a Japanese restaurant that will be appreciated by your wallet for its very reasonable prices and will delight your taste buds with exquisite preparations. The raw fish will of course have been frozen and with the power cuts in Kathmandu, you may not take the risk of enjoying the salmon and tuna sushi, makis and nigiris. Mackerel, on the other hand, is fresh. As for the soups, gyoza and other bentos, it's divine! We recommend.

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 Kathmandu
2024

LA CASITA DE BOUDHANATH

Spanish restaurant €€

Tired of eating Nepalese or Indian food? Take a break for an evening and climb the steps of this small restaurant, which offers a magnificent view of the stupa from its rooftop terrace tables, eye-to-eye with the stupa. It serves Spanish and Tex-Mex specialities. On the menu: tapas, Andalusian gazpacho, Mexican tacos, paella, as well as Iberian-style spinach momos... All accompanied by a glass of sangria or Rioja. Also great for a drink, given the wine and cocktail list.

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 Bodnath