アジアンダイニング& バー インドネパールエスニックレストランヒマラヤ上野 — Restaurant in Tokyo

I'm writing this review up as I finish my meal here. Having been to many Himalayan/Indian restaurants before, I can say that this is one of the best in Tokyo.

I ordered the mutton curry and cheese naan, my wife ordered a regular naan with butter chicken curry. The cheese naan was actually the best I've had in Tokyo yet. When the mutton curry came, I was a little thrown off as the colour resembled a different curry rather than the dark colour that was pictured on the menu, but the flavour of the curry and the lamb itself more than made up for it. My wife also enjoyed her meal very much.

Staff were all very nice and really attentive! There was a little bit of a language barrier (my wife and I both speak English and Japanese) so there was one item missing initially but it was very quickly resolved.

The interior is warm and cozy, kind of like some nicer izakaya are. However, the pictures on the walls seemed a little random and are of different cities such as London, Paris and Greece, I also felt that something was missing was music, but it was still nice to hear that the staff were having a good time together :)

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The Himalaya is a little gem of an ethnic (Indian) restaurant only a couple of blocks from Ueno JR station; I found it by chance looking for dinner on the street that leads from Showa Street to the Ueno New Izu Hotel and the Ehu General Hospital. The place is by no means fancy, located next to a 7-11. But the thali (set) that I had was very high quality and the portions that I was served tasted right. I’ve spent the past 50 years working in international development in a great many locales and have developed a good basis for comparison. For each of the dishes I ordered I was asked to specify the level of heat I wanted. And that’s how they came. The thali that I ordered came to about 3000 yen, including a draft beer, and seemed to be to be very good value for money. For both people new to Indian food and to those who are well accustomed to, I’d...

Chef rushes me "what do you want", .. ok.

Butter Chicken tasted okay, how ever small portion and little chicken,very disappointed. The naan was nice though.

For the price, I expected more, considering for same price in Shibuya I had double the size bowl.

When it came to the payment, the guy took my card around a corner to the back, to the POS. Should Never take a customer's Credit Card out of their sight

Side note: establishment shares the room with smokers, I personally don't care but...