Paleti Bhanchha Ghar — Restaurant in Kathmandu Metropolitan City

Outstanding Nepalese food based on local recipes sourced by the proprietor who runs the restaurant with his lovely family. He and his wife buy fresh vegetables and meat at the market before they prepare dishes fresh every day. The superior quality and taste compared to less expensive places is obvious and worth the small difference in price.

The interior is beautiful and filled with antiques and artwork also collected by the proprietor, Kishan Gurung. He had designers create the interior of the restaurant based upon his concepts including using sustainable materials.

There are two intimate dining rooms spanning the second and third floors. There is great airflow from 3 sides and a view of the street below if you choose to sit by the front window.

Tomorrow will be my third visit and I am looking...

Ordered pork sekuwa which was just full of fat pieces and when we complained, the manager said people come here asking for fat and told me 'you should have told us before. But no option was given if we want fat or don't want fat. Normally when we have pork sekuwa from other places they give us fat and meat pieces together. Also, the waiter told us that it pork sekuwa is half fat and half meat and that is how it should come. Very contradicting what the manager said because our sekuwa was only fat pieces. And the sekuwa wasn't barbecued, it was pan fried. Pork sekuwa was one of my favorite foods but after eating their pork sekuwa I'm completely put...

The owners, Kishan and Sunita, are friends of ours, and treated us to dinner last night. Our expectations were high based on knowing them. The food exceeded those expectations. We had garlic soup, both veg and paneer fried pakauda, a veg roti set with buckwheat pancakes, half-fried chicken momos. The freshness, flavoring that was both subtle and direct, and mixture of textures was remarkable. We are on our third trip to Nepal and have had much wonderful food here, but this stood out. I may be biased, but taste buds don't lie.

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