Tibet Kitchen — Restaurant in Calgary

This restaurant is a new favourite for me! A friend brought me here and I have never tried Tibetan food, so I was excited to try.

Everything on their menu sounded good, but we settled on the sha-bhaley (deep fried bread stuffed with beef), thenthuk (flat hand pulled pasta in soup) and curry chicken. The curry chicken was tasty, but ordinary compared to the amazing sha-bhaley and thenthuk!

The fried dough of the sha-bhaley was thin and deliciously chewy, and the filling was flavourful and juicy. The thenthuk is a perfect hearty noodle soup for a cold day, though I enjoyed it just as much on a hot summer day. The broth is slightly thickened, a perfect consistency for the large flat noodles that remind me of eating wontons without filling, in the tastiest and best possible way.

The restaurant is clean and tidy, with a lovely authentic ambiance. We received friendly and attentive service. Our food was brought out relatively quickly, we were checked on multiple times and had our water refilled multiple times without asking. Lovely people work here!

So happy to have been introduced to this gem of a restaurant. I don’t live particularly close to Kensington but wouldn’t hesitate to make the drive out here to dine in or pick up food. Highly...

I should preface this review by saying that nothing about the dining experience was bad; this is a perfectly fine Tibetan food restaurant - it's just that the food really wasn't all that amazing.

We ordered the fried beef momo dumplings and the special chow mein as well as a butter tea and a sweet Indian chai tea for about $50. The dumplings tasted pretty good, but were noticeably cold on the inside. We got the fluffy option for the dumpling - I would recommend getting the thin instead, as the pastry was quite a bit thicker than I anticipated. The chow mein was very average, not noticeably better than most cheap Chinese take out. As for the butter tea, I personally would not recommend it to someone who has never had it before. Likely it is an acquired taste, but I really did not enjoy it and found it overwhelmingly salty. I'm sure there are better options on the menu seeing as most other reviews are very positive, but due to this experience I likely will...

Always down for Nepalese food. This was our first time trying out Tibet Kitchen for our group of 6.

We shared several dishes: -Bhod-jha ($2.50) - Tibetan butter tea. Over the top salty. Jha ngarmo ($2.50) - Indian sweet chai tea. Standard fare. Mango lassi ($5.00) Laping (#10) ($10.00) - noodles had a good bite and the filling was tasty. The homemade spicy hot sauce was delicious! Momo platter (#3) ($16.00 for 8) - we opted for steamed and were given two each of beef, chicken, vegetable and tofu. My favourite was the beef. Chicken momo (#19) ($15.00 for 8) - we tried the fried version. Not too deep fried or greasy. Sha-bhaley (#24) ($16.00 for 4) - enjoyable but pricey for what you get. Thenthuk (#26) ($14.00) - broth is simple. Noodles were okay. Shaptak (#51) ($18.00) - average stir fry fare.

Stick with the momos at...