The Everest Kitchen — Restaurant in Lake Forest Park

The food here is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. If you’re a chunks-of-meat eater, this can be your place. They do really good vegan food here too, according to a lifelong vegan with serious meat allergies. We stumbled onto this place purely by accident and can’t thank our lucky stars enough.

As a constant consumer of all kinds of dumplings of many ethnic origins, their chicken momos are superb—plump, balanced with its meat and vegetables, not heavily seasoned, but beautifully spiced. These need no sauce, although they do come with one that I prefer to dip my naan in. You get 10 of them in a single serving. In another entree, there’s easily a half pound of cubed meat in their delicious lamb sekuwa. The portions are hefty and meant to create leftovers for the average eater.

The first time we went, my husband got lamb biryani and could not finish it. He-who-dislikes-leftovers had zero problems polishing off the leftover biryani the next day. The second time we went on a last-minute whim on Christmas Eve, he went with a set meal of chicken curry daal bhaat. He had not eaten for hours and loosened his belt so he could polish dinner down to the last grain of rice in the included rice pudding. And still, we brought home naan.

If I can say nothing else, we drove up from Des Moines to Lake Forest Park to eat there 3 days after we first ate there. An elderly friend of ours practically flew up from Georgetown to meet us there for dinner when I called her with no notice whatsoever. The food is truly that exceptional.

Right now, this feels like a hardworking family-run, small business. They are trying to scale up their operations and seemed unprepared for the enormous traffic that holiday web ordering brings to places with incredibly good food at reasonable prices. This will not be fast.

If you’re in a hurry, this ain’t your place. Please don’t say you support local small immigrant family businesses if your expectations are to get corporate treatment and throw a fit if your large, complicated order took more than 30 minutes to come together—like we watched one person do on Christmas Eve. They are not perfect, but their food is really worth the drive and wait.

We are now planning our 3rd dinner there to meet family members, who just stopped by briefly to pick up a key while we were dining on Christmas Eve night. Just by the smells alone, they will be eating at the Everest Kitchen soon—with or without us. But once again, we will be driving up from south of SeaTac airport just to eat...

Extremely disappointed with this place. First off, the drink menu wasn't correct at all as they were out of almost everything. They had to literally tell us the three only drinks available because what we kept asking for wasn't available. Then we place our order, starting with an appetizer.

We get our drinks in a few minutes, no problem. But then we wait almost AN HOUR for our food to come out. I timed it and it literally was 55 minutes. Did our appetizers come out though? No. We were given our meals and not even asked about appetizers.

Ten minutes later I get the server's attention and we say we didn't get the appetizer. Ten more minutes goes by - mind you we're well over an hour since ordering at this point. A different server all together comes and asks about the appetizer if we've received it, at this point I say no we didn't, just cancel it. We finish eating our meal, which was okay, but not great by any means.

When we finish eating we try asking for containers to go, but can't seem to get the attention of our server at all. He finally stops by and asks if we're done and we ask for to go containers. He then proceeds to seat other parties, clean tables, and give containers to other tables. We waited 15 minutes and then I got up and got to go containers myself. We never got our check either so after packing up our food I go up to the checkout and they offer no apology for the wait and don't offer a discount or anything. I find it hard to leave even anything as a tip, but I do anyways.

What am absolutely infuriating experience. I will never return here. I heard several other people say they were waiting almost an hour as well. Absolutely ridiculous. I will never recommend this place to anyone.

If you're that busy, learn to stop online orders, or stop seating people and let them know there will be a wait. At no point we're we told there would be a wait. Nor were we checked on at any point during our visit unless we specifically asked for the waiter.

Terrible. I would give 0...

The food is excellent. The service was somewhat disappointing on this occasion. My wife and I have eaten here twice before and thought we would bring our daughter's family with us to enjoy it as much as we do. There were only six occupied tables with customers, including our party in the restaurant. We sat down, a party of six. We waited a very long time and then after I mentioned to someone at the table that they must have forgotten us, a man looked up from behind a counter and came out to see us. We got three menus for six people and then he left. Eventually a woman was walking by and I asked her if we could get three more menus and she was very polite and brought them promptly. We were eventually able to order and all but one of us got our meal. We were about a third of the way through our meal when we got the last meal. I'm still not complaining about that though because the food is excellent and we realize they make it after we order it and it can take a while. The only thing that really bothers me is the "automatic gratuity" which was added to our bill. I am the youngest of seven and our divorced mother supported us with the tips she earned as a waitress. I know how to tip. I would like the opportunity to choose my tip, not have it imposed upon me. If there was something on the menu that said "there is an automatic gratuity for parties of six or more", I would have understood it but I went online and looked at the menu again and I couldn't see it anywhere. If I have good service I am a good tipper. If I have to ask for menus, I have to ask for water and I have to ask for refills on my water and have to ask for a fork because nobody's paying attention to me then I don't tip as well. It is a...