Buff Momo
Rs 380Steamed buffalo dumplings, ginger, garlic, timur, tomato-sesame chutney.
Est. 2016 · Lalitpur
Cooked over wood,
served without ceremony.
An all-day kitchen and café in Jhamsikhel. Buckwheat milled here, trout in from the hill streams, and a hearth that has been lit every morning since 2016.
The short version
Jhamsikhel, Lalitpur
Open six days
We are a small kitchen with one wood hearth, one dal we have been arguing about since 2021, and a room that fills with the same forty faces most weeks.
Breakfast runs from eight, lunch is short and quick, and dinner is the part we take our time over. Nothing on the menu stays if it stops making sense — the trout changes with the season, the vegetables change with the valley farms, and the fire stays exactly the same.
Signature plates
Three dishes we would be sorry to take off
Charcoal Mutton Sekuwa
Rs 980Mustard-oil marinade, timur, charred onion, lime.
Valley Dal Bhat Set
Rs 780Seasonal lentils, steamed rice, tarkari, two achar, ghee.
Our story
It started as a six-stool tea counter
Aavash came back to Lalitpur after eight years cooking elsewhere, took the lease on a converted ground-floor room in Jhamsikhel, and poured chiya and coffee for two years before anyone let him near a dinner service.
The hearth went in during 2018. Most of what we do now still comes back to that decision — to cook slowly, over wood, and let the ingredient do the interesting part.
How we cook
Three things we do not compromise on
- Sourced from the valley
- Rice and dal from farms in Khokana and Bungamati, trout from the hill streams north of the city, and a butcher in the same bazaar we have used since the first week.
- Cooked over fire
- The hearth is lit at six and never rushed. Wood is the least forgiving way to cook, and the most honest — kaath, after all, is where the city gets its name.
- Served without ceremony
- Brass and good glassware, but no theatre. You should be able to come in from the rain and still feel looked after.
The fire is lit at six. Everything else waits for it.
The room
A few mornings and one long evening
Visit us
Come in off Jhamsikhel Marg
We keep a handful of tables back for walk-ins every service. If you are more than four, or it is a Friday, send us a note first and we will find you a table.
- Address
- Nosvra Kot, Jhamsikhel
Lalitpur 44700 - Opening hours
- Tuesday – Friday08:00 – 21:30
- Saturday08:00 – 22:30
- Sunday08:00 – 21:00
- Phone
- +977-1-5013847