The best restaurants Bhaktapur

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.

Housed in the beautifully renovated traditional Peackock Guesthouse, overlooking Dattatraya Square, this charming restaurant is Bakhtapur's finest dining experience. In addition to the usual dishes, there are three fixed-price formulas: a Nepalese formula, a continental formula and a Chinese formula (really delicious dishes). Prices are appropriate to the location, i.e. a little high. The architecture of this restaurant puts you in the local mood: low ceilings, carved wooden pillars and a very pleasant patio for lunch.

Kutumba is Hotel Heritage's gourmet fusion restaurant, with a menu open to authentic Nepalese and Newari cuisine. Dishes are prepared using fresh produce from local Bhaktapur farms. Inside, the large, somewhat solemn, dark room with its pretty crockery lends itself more to dinners, while the large garden and courtyard are better suited to lunches in the shade or informal dinners. The quality of service and the friendliness of both staff and cooks add to the charm of the place.

This cool spot is located just above Bhaktapur's potters' square. Take a table by the windows to enjoy the view, or sit outright on the rootfop terrace. The setting is welcoming and the decor well thought-out, the ceramic crockery in which the dishes and drinks are served making sense with the spectacle on the square below. Plenty of teas a la carte, and the usual palette of well-cooked Nepalese dishes: breakfast, veg and non-veg snacks, thalis, curries, momos, chowmeins...

Behind the discreet entrance to this restaurant, the tables are set in a beautiful, vast garden. This is the restaurant's main asset when you're looking for shade, coolness and calm for an outdoor lunch. The cuisine is acceptable without being unbelievable, with a menu similar to Bakhtapur's other tourist-oriented restaurants (international dishes, momos and thalis sets). It's a nice place to take a coffee break or a cool drink during a long tour of the imperial city.

A small family address known to the insiders. Two rows of tables, in a room that does not pay a mine. To eat a Dal Bhat at a normal rate (120 Rs), taste a curry at less than 100 Rs, or to enjoy a true piece of chicken (chicken sizzler). Tight budgets should appreciate.