Cafe Kaldi
Aww...! This place reminds me of my LSE's cafe in London. I am coming,...!
Sherpa Mall
A mall must have a website with lot of images to describe about the mall. It's portrays ignorance of its own investment. I can see only a front facade and the shiny floor with few unknown shops with unknown names. Request to have more images to make everyone easy to browse the malls beauty and its veriety stores.
Thanks,
chij lama, dubai
Gaia coffee shop
cool! and it's so close to where i live - will definitely check it out.
Gaia coffee shop
Very nice and popular cafe formed by onetime staff of New Orleans. Nice quite environment, reliably good food, nice coffee, free wi-fi and great friendly staff.
Cafe Kaldi
jusss loveeeeeeeeeeeed the place .... !!!
Educational Enterprise
has a very random collection of books. doesn't have a lot but the owner is very knowledgeable and extremely helpful. this isn't borders but is as good as it gets for textbooks and technical books in kathmandu. they had a decent collection of textbooks (mostly by indian authors) on reinforced concrete. i predict that these type of stores will go extinct once the new wave of e-readers make it to nepal but until then this place gets the job done.
Pipalbot
"What's really interesting to me is that Pipalbot proves without any doubt that Nepali made items can compete with the best of them. We don't have to sell handicrafts at Mahaguthi whose designs are irrelevant or sell cheap T-shirts that say "Yak Yak Yak" or sell fake antique Buddha statues to poor college student backpakers." - HALLELUJAH!
Institute of Engineering (IOE)
the mustang quota is removed ever since the declaration of Republic Nepal.
Dragon Eye Club
went on a wed night (right after horse racing) and had the best time of our lives. it was "models night" which essentially means that models get food and drinks for free so there were many good looking people cavorting around. very international crowd and great energy. the music was good also. highly recommended.
Bhat Bhateni
@saroj - it may be boring but unfortunately we don't have a better option in kathmandu. i guess city center + big mart might (hopefully) give bhat bhateni so much needed competition, but until then guess where i'm going to buy my groceries? :)
Sherpa Mall
Sherpa mall is fantastic. JUSt I need to buy a DC hood of 14 years.IF youa have please email in my email adress.
Bawarchi Restro Bar
We walked into Bawarchi for dinner because we'd been hearing good things about it and also because it's right next to Suwal. Boy was that a mistake.
We walked into a smoked filled room of hell with a totally disinterested staff. We asked to be seated in the non-smoking section but was informed that it was reserved. We then asked to be seated in the outdoors seating area but was told there was no chairs. I pointed to the many empty chairs in the smoking section and asked if someone could please move two chairs for us outside to the table with no chairs. The host looked very annoyed - how dare we ask to move TWO chairs? Couldn't we just sit in their smoked filled room of hell and slowly kill ourselves? He finally agreed without bothering to hide that he was very annoyed with us. We waited outside in the cold for a while waiting for chairs that never came. Out of options, we finally decided to go to Ghare Kabab (we were craving some Indian food) which is more expensive, but hey, at least they gave us chairs to sit on.
As much as I hate the fact that KFC and Pizza Hut are now in Kathmandu, at times like these I secretly hope that foreign chains like these slowly wipe out incompetent and lazy establishments like Bawarchi. They totally do not deserve your money and exist only because they don't have enough competition. Restaurants like Bawarchi need to be taught a thing or two about service and get their heads out of their asses. Run, don't walk, away from Bawarchi.
Babar Mahal Revisited
Our favorite place to hang out in Kathmandu. This place has the best Japanese restaurant (Shogun), best lounge (Casablanca), best French and dessert (Chez Caroline), and the best furniture (Pipalbot) in the city. Couldn't live in Kathmandu without this place.
Sherpa Mall
I am looking for kids items such as laptop and electronics devices. could you please let us now if you guys have avialable.
Ramita Shrestha
9849453000
Mandala Book Point
Nice bookstore in the heart of Kathmandu. A lot of it is travelers fare but they have a decent selection of new/popular books as well. And their magazine section is nice as well.
China Garden
Went to eat dinner here with two good friends and had a decent time. The service is good but the food isn't fantastic. And the menu is a bit odd - there's bits of japanese, thai and korean dishes. The dimsum was the most disappointing - maybe it was coz we ordered chicken instead of pork but it's def the most bland dimsum I've had in my life.
Vesper Cafe
Went to Vesper Cafe last night for the first time and was very impressed. The food is a mix of Thai, Pizzas, Chinese, Indian, French - basically everything! Usually that's a bad sign but everything we ordered was good and the prices are reasonable. Will def go back again.
The crowd was mostly expats - didn't see any Nepalis for some reason when we were there. It's next to New Orleans and Roadhouse in Patan. Check out the video review below by 3 sobenepal models.
Vesper Cafe
vesper is jus next to new orleans at damkal patan. Can't mark frm mobile. Went yesterday thr. Nice food n place.
(via twitter)
Seoul Arirang
I've only eaten here once, but enjoyed it quite a bit. I think we had bibimbap and kalbi.
Nepa-Sa
They are awesome in every concert in town!!
last week we had a annual day in office.. and these guys brought their instruments and they were simple terrific.. hats off to Nepa-Sa
Imago Dei
Glad to see one of my favourite places reviewed. I do agree with how nice grass-space would be...but a clean parking area is good, even if I walk in. As for slow internet...dang, it's free, isn't it? Finally: "not cutting edge"-- wow. I found that kind of a strange thing to say since it presumes we all agree on what 'cutting edge' means. It's not the first cafe cum art gallery in town, but it is a little different. I like it.
Imago Dei
Finally made it to Imago Dei after our initial visit a few months ago for a meeting. There's a nice art gallery with track lighting and yellow wall filled with art which rotates depending on the exhibit. There is also an outdoor seating area with is very welcoming although the space would have been perfect with some grass or green-space. The food was ok and fairly priced and I hear their cheesecake is the best in the city. My only problem was with the wifi which was very very iffy (see speedtest below) with the connection completely going blank for minutes at a time.
Parking is easy here and the strawberry lemonade was excellent. I don't particularly feel drawn to come back soon but it's a good meeting place - the music's decent and the couches are comfy. The place and crowd is not cutting edge but I don't think they're trying to be so it works.
Patan Museum
@sushma - topic moved to http://www.sodne.com/posts/226. thanks.
Patan Museum
its been nearly 2/3 weeks since you asked for the feedback on new design of lukeko.com but it is still not implemented on the site. what's the progress on new design? its not finished yet?
and another thing is, some links on this site is still wrong??? i'm talking about links on About API Contact Faq
Greenland Guest House and Restaurant
Better if you guys have been to Bhaktapur Guest House.. food was nice there...
Greenland Guest House and Restaurant
We were going to eat lunch inside the main Bhaktapur durbar square area for lunch on our way from Nagarkot back to Kathmandu. But the entrance prices at Rs 750 per person for 3 of our passengers who are foreigners meant we would have to shell out Rs 2250 just to get in. (I think Rs 750 per person is very high just to enter a city but that's not the point of this review). Since we just wanted to eat and not look around we decided to eat at the first nice restaurant outside of Bhaktapur that we found, which happened to be Greenland.
The food was good enough. (We ordered chicen chilli, chicken makhani, and chicken hobbs between the 4 of us). It was only until we got home that I started feeling it. I got a very bad case of food poisoning with massive projectile vomiting and diarrhea for 5 hours. I'm almost positive it was the lime soda that I ordered that did it since no one else in the group fell sick and I was the only one who drank it. Never going back to Greenland again.
Patan Museum
Visited the Patan museum and absolutely loved it. There's something for everyone. The art pieces are impressive (although a lot has been stolen and bought from Nepal and sit in private collections around the world). The cafe is tastefully done and serves food from the Summit Hotel. The garden is calming and well designed. But for me, as a structural engineer with an architectural background, the highlight was the restoration work and the lighting which is very nicely done. As you can see from the pictures below, they've taken an interesting route choosing to blend modern with the old. Some purists might have a problem with it, but I like it since it's done well here. The restoration and design is by Goetz Hagmüller, the same architect as the garden of dreams. Definitely well worth the entrance fee - highly recommended.
Club Himalaya
Best $40 I ever spent. Price includes dinner, [an excellent] breakfast, and stay for two people with great views of the mountains. The hot tub worked perfectly and the pool and massage area looked nice too. The shower alone is worth half the money - it has great water pressure and the water gets very hot - better than any shower I've taken in Kathmandu in months. Service is excellent as well. The fact that spending one night here and getting a good nights sleep with clean air cleared my sinuses was a bonus. Highly recommended and would def go back again to escape the craziness that is Kathmandu. *Hint - the higher floors have better views so try to book a room on the higher floors (highest floor is 4).
Good food and good service. Loved the sushi there and the sake.
Response To
Best Japanese food in the city run by a nice Japanese woman (Mako). Prices are reasonable and the setting is very romantic. Set in Babar Mahal on the second floor as soon as you enter the complex.