Popular Restaurant - NEWA LAHAN KIRTIPUR

The community-run Newa Lahana Kirtipur is fast becoming everyone's favorite Newari eat-out. In these restaurants, visitors don't have to huddle with complete strangers at this open-air, multi-storeyed Bhatti. There is enough space for everyone to enjoy the food and company without worrying about diners eavesdropping on your sweet nothings. once seated on the top floor, the sights of Machhegaun and the towering Chandragiri above it whet the appetite.

View From Newa Lahana

The services provide in this restaurant-Newa Lahana Kirtipur, are community women dressed in traditional haku patasi who wait and smile while you place your orders and serve with efficiency and unusual candor. Over-priced restaurants that populate Kathmandu would do well to ask these ladies to instruct their employees on hospitality. The dog-eared menu lists more than 50 varieties of Newari specialties and if so far, your taste in Newari cuisine has only been limited to baras, choyalas and sukutis, you definitely owe Lahana a visit.

Woman's wearing Haku Patsi

Tourists visiting the restaurant

Prepared by families of Thambahal, the food at Newa Lahana Kirtipur is the very picture of authenticity. The items of foods with its rate are Sapu Mhicha (Rs 110): a dish of leaf tripe bag stuffed with bone marrow. Our plate of Mey (Rs 120), boiled and fried slices of buffalo tongue, had us talking about rep-eats. Some dishes were far too exotic but the adventurous will want to try the Pangra (Rs 180) and Tishyo (Rs 120). Lahana’s cooks do an incredible job with the more common Newari delights too. Mixed Wo or Bara (Rs 110), Choyala (Rs 70) and Alu (Rs 35), Sukuti, or Sukula Wala (Rs 140) are must-eats. Thwo: (rice beer) brewed in a shed under the building costs Rs 35 per cup and nothing goes better with allspice than a cup of homebrew.

The Foods at Newa Lahana

NOTE: Prices are subject to change without notice. Contact the restaurant for the most current pricing information.