MAKO’S RESTAURANT 

at  DWARIKA’S HOTEL

Signature Dishes: Sushi, Tempura, Teppanayaki

Opening Hours: 11:30 to 2:30(Lunch), 6:00 to 10:00(Dinner)

Budget: Rs. 5000 including Drinks for two

Parking: Hotel Parking

Contact: 01-4479488 (Prior Reservation recommended)

Entering Dwarika’s Hotel feels like entering an exotic cultural heritage with rich Nepalese hospitality. Every corner features authentic architectural tradition from stone taps to standing lamps. Live music from a ‘Sarangi’ player relaxes our mind as soon as we walk in the antique yet exquisite hotel. Listed as a 5 star hotel, though targeted for high-end customers and tourists, its fusion bar and three special restaurants are open to all guests.  Among them is the Japanese Maco’s Restaurant.

Have you ever been to Japanese Paradise in Nepal? If you haven’t, then you can visit Maco’s Restaurant, located in the left wing of Dwarika’s Hotel. It provides Japan’s peaceful environment in wooden and bamboo-built lounge and steals our heart with aromatic, musical ambience and warm lighting. Traditional Japanese plates, vessels, dolls and even dresses beautify this quiet place.

Japanese Manager, Ms. Maco Hidama, has 30 years of knowledge in Restaurant business and Grand Japanese Hotels in Thailand. To serve Nepalese Customers with Japanese delicacy, Ms. Maco states that she had waited 25 years. Now, she has been managing Japanese Restaurants in Dwarika’s Hotel, Kathmandu and Dwarika’s Resort, Dhulikhel for more than 3 years. She is enthusiastic and stern regarding the Japanese cuisine and its delivery. Maco’s have served customers from China, European Nations, Japanese Embassy, but only a few Nepalese which disheartens her.

The Maco’s Restaurant accommodates around 50 people but serves as per customers’ decent preference for seat around hotel premises. Maco confidently says “No Oily, No Salty and No Spicy.” Chef Laxman Lama with more than 13 years of specialization in Japanese cuisine has been working in Maco’s since its establishment. As in Japanese Culture, Green Tea, one of the healthiest drinks around the world, is served at first, with vegetarian Starter dish containing mainly cucumber and carrot. California Maki is an exotic Japanese roll, usually made inside-out, containing cucumber, crab meat, and avocado. It should be dipped in soysauce before eating. No Japanese meal is complete without famous Sushi where Sticky rice is rolled with cucumber, carrot and crabstick. With them, Miso Soup made up of Soybean goes really fine. A bowl of Horenso Spinach mingled with sesame is also tabled. Excellence can be tasted in Tempura which is made by frying prawn, egg and other vegetables crumbled in imported Tempura flour. They are best served hot with dipping soysauce with mereen water, ginger and radish paste. One should also try Teppanayaki, where customers choose among Chicken, Pork, Salmon, Prawn, etc. which are grilled or broiled with pepper, butter and salt. To enhance the taste, it is served with salad, sesame paste and soy sauce.  Finally, one should try Teriyaki, a cuisine in which meat is sauce-fried and comes with its own special salad. For Drinks, Maco’s Restaurant recommends Plum Wine or Japanese Traditional homemade drink named Hot or Cold Sake made from imported ingredients from Japan.

The desserts served here are nowhere else found in Nepal. The homemade green tea flavored ice-cream is mouth-watering. And, the Tempura Ice-cream will intrigue you both by its taste and way of preparation. It is uniquely prepared by frying tempura flour around the ice-cream within seconds before ice-cream melts.

Ms. Pallavi Singh, the Marketing Executive, confirms, “With benevolent waiters, sophisticated Japanese culture is reflected in this part of Dwarika’s Hotel.” Not only customers are served best quality Japanese cuisines, but they are also taught the proper eating way, thus proving Ms. Maco’s delightful claim: “There’s no target. Everyone who comes here is welcome here.” Embracing Japanese Culture is definitely a fine way to spend an evening with your loved ones. Come today or tomorrow if you got the NRM card as you can even get 30% off.

Cloud Zero

At Summit Residency Hotel

Signature Dishes: Chicken with oregano, Lamb chop, Chocolate Thunder

Opening Hours: 2 pm to 10 pm

Budget: Rs. 2500-3000 for two including non-alcoholic drinks

Parking: Complementary

Call:  01-4112636/37/38/39 For Reservation

Located on the 11^th floor of Hotel Summit Residency, just opposite TI Airport main gate, Cloud Zero will leave you intrigued and captivated by ambience it has to offer. Cloud zero sets a perfect destination to family gatherings and corporate meetings, accompanied by breadth taking view from the restaurant. Its sophisticated interiors situated at the height will make you feel like you are in the Nepali version of Burj Al Arab.

Make yourself comfortable in lounge area, bar, terrace or their revolving restaurant inside the ultra-modern dome at the top of their building, Cloud Zero with its wide range of seating arrangement accommodates around 128 people. As the city slowly rotates around, you can enjoy the panoramic vista on offer at Cloud Zero that will transport you to the most exclusive seat in the city, one which provides unparalleled 360° view of the Kathmandu Valley, complete with a Himalayan panorama.

As far as food goes, Cloud Zero excels in its speciality of BBQ and grilled dishes. A plate of french fries, sauted seasoned vegetables, grilled chicken breast served with rosemary sauce is called Chicken with oregano which is tasty as well as healthy option for meat lovers. The pork chop, with a garnish of pesto sauce and pumari mustard sauce, served with sauted seasoned vegetable is to die for. The dishes are grilled to perfection to ensure that they give the perfect flavour and are cooked just right. Mr. Ashish Basnet who is working as a F&D Executive from past one year in Cloud Zero stresses on the quality, hygiene and value for meal provided by the restaurant.

Cloud Zero offers a wide ran

ge of cocktails and mocktails in their uniquely located circular bar. Their Bubbling Cherry, Cloud Zero Special Cocktail and Flamingo will definitely help you beat the heat of the summer. “Along with our bar, tables, pillars, the dome shaped ceiling of this place is inspired by circular shapes to add symmetrical appeal to the restaurant” says Mr. Basnet.

To end an exquisite meal on a sweet note, there is Chocolate Thunder, a vanilla ice cream scoop seating on an American chocolate brownie. If you are planning to visit Cloud Zero this Friday and Saturday, a soothing monsoon evening would be a perfect timing. 

Walter’s Mitho Mitho

Signature Dishes: Pork Chop, Chiken Sworma, Spatchule

Opening Hours: 11 am to 9:30 pm

Budget: Rs. 800-1000 for two excluding drinks

Parking: Complementary at beer garden

Call: 01 – 5591723

Located in the midst of a residential area of the valley, Bhaisepati, Walter’s Mitho-Mitho offers a beautifully shaded Munich-style Beer Garden, a cosy and sunny Garden lounge with outdoor bar and of course Monssoon- proofed inside familiar guest rooms. Here you could spend entire afternoon in the shades of avocado trees with your family, friends or loved ones and can truly believe that life is good.

Owned by Walter Schwinger with nearly three decades of experience in field of restaurant business, originally started the restaurant at Babarmahal. Later, the restaurant expanded and shifted to Jhamsikhel serving culinary delights across globe that includes Austrian, Arabian, Mexican, German and Continental cuisines and now caters to multi cuisines lovers at Bhaisepati.

Walter’s mitho mitho probably serves the best Pork Chop in the town. Marinated with their special Himalayan herbs for an hour, the pork is cooked to perfection and is served with demi-glace sauce. Chicken Sworma, a Middle Eastern dish is another speciality of this place. An Arabic flattened bread stuffed with capsicums, onions, garlic and with the rich taste of the grilled chicken served along with fatule salad is a must try.

“The sole purpose of Walter’s is to cater our customers with a healthy and hygienic menu that varies from famous cuisines around the globe” says Anil Basnet, manager at Walters. They also arrange a buffet at short notice ranging from 10 to 500 in person. For those who cannot go without alcohol, they even provide guest house facilities to keep you safe from mapase. The restaurant also has traditional bowling alley and offers free Carlsberg for those who can score by striking all the pins. Letting your children play around the special children hut or feeding the rabbits that are hopping around, Walter’s mitho mitho is a perfect place to relax with your family. With these services, Walters is more than a restaurant and a small version of a family park.

The sibling chef duos, Hari Pd. Dhital and Arjun Pd. Dhital here prepares the exotic dishes that can be found only at Walters. One of them is their special German dish Spatchule. The dish has a little bit of everything; prepared with home-made egg flour dough and is served along beetroot salad, mix bean patties and sour crout. Another Middle Eastern dish, Vegg Sagi is a great delight to the veggie lovers. The grilled seasonal vegetables garnished with the fatus salad; seasonal vegetables mixed with olive oil and apple vinegar served with garlic sauce can definitely be treat for your taste buds.

All in all, with a seating capacity for more than 150 people, one can really relish the moments spent here. So, head to Walter’s mitho mitho along with your family members as there is something for everyone in your family. And today & tomorrow, they will even provide you with a 30% discount if you take along your NRM Privilege Card with you.

Café Mitini & Shop

Signature Dishes: Hand drip coffee, Dutch Coffee, Crepe set

Opening Hours: 10 am to 7 pm

Budget: Rs. 500/600 for two

Parking: Complementary

Call: 01-4002070

After an early morning gives way to an upbeat afternoon heat, one can surely understand the summer has hit the town. However, soothing ambience can lift your mood immediately after you enter Café Mitini, located away from hustles and bustles of Lazimpat area, few minutes from Shangrila Hotel. Here you could spend entire afternoon over hand drip coffees, drinks, desserts and can truly believe that life is good.

Café Mitini is run by S.E.A centre, a Korean social enterprise running the restaurant business. The profit earned by 'Mitini' is utilized for all the social works performed under S.E.A centre. At café Mitini, one can hang out and contribute for the social and noble cause at the same. Life wasn’t that easy until now.

As soon as you enter, at the very entrance to the right, one can have option to shop various handicrafts woven by Nepali women. One can never be bored at Mitini as it also offers wide range of books to read such as: herbs, travelling, economics etc to visitors. With these offerings, one can truly feel it more than a café. Settle yourself into the indoors or canopied outdoor setting, Café Mitini has seating arrangements that accommodates around 40 people. The place is accentuated by earthy decors and wooden tables with slight influence of Korean interiors.

Pancakes with banana & chocolate chips 

Interiors at Mitini inspired by Korean Housing Style

Celebrated its first anniversary just two weeks ago, Jinsung oh (Jina), manager of Café Mitini calls Mitini a social café as it provides skill training for women to create jobs through café and also invigorate and promote the culture of coffee in Nepal.  They also provide seminar rooms available for other social aspects. Being a quite social entrepreneur herself Jina claims, “ Not only we provide varieties of Nepali coffee, drinks and light foods, but we also provide a quiet, comfortable and serene place to sit back and our wi-fi is also one of the best in town! (giggles)”

Handrip Coffee

One would be amazed to know that entire café is managed only by three people namely, Dawa Lamu Sherpa, Dabuti Sherpa and Jina herself. The place tries its best to introduce Nepali coffee for all the coffee lovers. Their Dutch coffee (since there is nothing like dutch coffee in Nepal) and hand brew coffee are a must to beat the heat of this summer and will definitely leave you wanting for second cup. “Hand-drip is one of the best ways to feel the character of coffee itself, because you can control the taste” says Jina.

Crep Set

A scoop of vanilla ice cream sitting in warm pancakes with banana filling and chocolate syrup sauce, Mitini’s pancakes with banana & chocolate chips is a sweet sweet heaven. Crepe set, soft and juicy, easy to cut, easy to chew, and could easily impress one with every bite. On the top of well-done crepe set, Crepe banana chocolate -one bite and all it takes to be able to grasp great texture, melting flavour of the chocolate and coolness of the dish. While you are at Café Mitini (and you really must go), even though it will be difficult, do try to save some room for dessert. They offer cakes with flavours ranging from banana, chocolate, cheese and walnut to linger your taste buds.

With the motto of “Let’s meet and be Mitini” and share stories of our lives, Café Mitini is indeed a social café with an ideal combination of good food, Nepali coffee and serene ambience.

Thamel House Restaurant

          Thamel House Restaurant

Signature Dishes: Newari /Nepali Set (Lunch and Dinner), Chatamari

Opening Hours: 10:30 am to 11:30 pm

Budget: Rs. 2600 to 2700 including Drinks

Parking: In A-one Supermarket nearby

Call: 01-4410388

In the modern & concrete street of Thamel, one shouldn’t miss the 170 years-old ‘Malla Kaalin’ masterpiece of Nepalese Richness. For the foodies, travellers and tourists questioning to enjoy lively few hours of 60s Nepal; tasting top-notch food with matching ambience and hospitality, the answer is Thamel House Restaurant. 

The ancestral family home was put to service by Late Hari Bhakta Shrestha, Narendra Man Singh Shrestha and Ghirendra Man Singh Shrestha 20 years ago from today. During its rise, Thamel House Restaurant had served not only customers consisting of 90% foreigners but also elites such as Prince of Netherlands (1997),Japanese and French Ministers. Concentration of foreigners induces manager Mr. Nripesh Shrestha to quote “We also catered foreigners’ marriage in Nepalese style. So, I never know who my next customer is. And that’s the real excitement of managing this restaurant”

11 different dishes in Newari and Nepali Sets of Lunch and Dinner trigger the customers. “Nepalese people prefer Newari sets whereas Foreigners prefer Nepali sets”, says Mr. Nripesh. Though sets can be personalized, one shouldn’t miss the Nepali set with usual Chuira, Anda Taareko, Baara, Aalu Taareko, Tori ko saag, Bori, Bhatmaas Taareko, Aalu Achar, Suruwa, Mo:mo along with  jaw dropping Harin dry meat, Sukuti Saadeko, Mutton Choyela, Chicken Sekuwa and Badel saadeko totaling 15. Food can be added per-person-per-plate if requested. For drink, the traditional Aaila or Chyang and for dessert, a self-made tangy yogurt “Shikarni” are served. So called Newari-Pizza, Chatamari, hot with Egg, Mutton and Chicken meat is a must try. Mr. Ramesh Shrestha, the main chef since its bud stage, is confident about no buff, no overproduction, neatness and freshness of food.

Refurbished each year, the wooden built restaurant has 3 major seating segments: Inside the house with around 100 seats, Balcony segment 50 and Garden area 40. The restaurant walls are adorned with ‘Lakhe’ masks focusing a static cultural look. Besides a welcoming environment any hour, the best time to visit is when you can enjoy diversified cultural programs including Tamang selo, Newari dances andJhakri dances every evening from 6 pm.