AUTHENTIC NEPALI TESTE: Muktinath Thakali Kitchen

Santosh Pokhrel

Miktinath Thakali Kitchen is famous for Thakali food and authentic Nepali cuisine. This restaurant started from 2000 AD is specially known for Nepali food. This restaurant is serving domestic and foreign tourist with Nepali food. We can get the real taste of Thakali food in a restaurant that is started by one of the local of Thakkhola, Induprasad Gauchan. Besides, you can also choose the continental and Indian dishes according to your choices.

Location

Muktinath Thakali Kitchen is located at Thamel which is the main commercial tourism centre of Nepal. This Thakali Kitchen is in the same building of Bamboo club and Funky Buddha Restaurant, which is near the Baishali Hotel. This restaurant is just in front of the BK's palace restaurant. For exact location, you can see the map as well.

Food and drinks

We can get the local taste of 'Dhindo' that is made up of buckwheat brought from the Thakkhola of Mustang or Marpha Brandy of Mustang at Muktinath Thakali Kitchen. Likewise, most of people come here for the special pickle of potato. This restaurant is servicing many Nepali and foreign tourist with it's special Nepali food and Thakali food since eight years. Restaurant is popular for Thakali food as its name. The special sets of this restaurant are Nepali Daal Bhat set, Dhindo of buckwheat and meat of local chicken, potato's pickle, pickle of Bhatmaas and Gundruk, and Jhaneko Local alcohol. Likewise, we can also get the continental and Indian dishes according to our choices. Similarly, Chawomen, Thukpaa, Fried Chicken, fish fry are also some of the popular dishes of Muktinath Thakali chicken.

Main attraction of Muktinath Thakali kitchen

-          Special Muktinath Thakali Khana set                         Rs 300/-

(Rice, Curry, Daal, Pickle, Potato's pickle, Fish, Ghee, Curd, Gundruk and Mutton or Chicken)

-          Thakali Potato's pickle                                                    Rs 100/-

-          Mutton, chicken, Fish Dhindo set                                   Rs 220/-

-          Veg. Thakali Khana set                                                   Rs 140/-

-          Chicken drumstick                                                          Rs 200/-

-          Pork chilli                                                                       Rs 190/-

-          Mustang Marpha Brandy                                               Rs 100/-

Choose your place

For the customer's comfort, there is a choice of place as well. Mainly, there are three different places i.e., Cottage, Graden and upper storey in restaurant. You can sit anywhere according to your choice. It is according to your choice whether you want to enjoy your food at garden with sunrays during the winter or want to stay with your friend in cottage during the summer. In addition, you can also stay at upper storey with your family and friends where there is a long hall. It might the good chances for foreigners to enjoy Nepali food in a typical way.

Bar

For customers, it has also managed a bar. You can get there the taste of different imported drinks like Whiskey, Rum, Brandy, Wine and Local Nepali alcohol and brandy. We can get the alcohol made up of apple of Mustang and wine as well. At the same time, this bar also satisfies it's customers with imported beer and Nepali beer.

Environment

This restaurant is peaceful as it is inside from the main road. Every customer find the family environment inside this restaurant. The employee of this restaurant is always ready to serve the customers. Likewise, the owner of this restaurant, Induprasad Gauchan and Sushila Gauchan are always present at the restaurant because of which if some problems arises, it will be solve quickly. This restaurant can serve almost 50 customers at one time and it is suitable for the birthday celebration, and farewell party. Similarly, this place is also perfect for the family dinner. This restaurant uses mineral water to cook food so that we can enjoy our food without any hesitation.  We can also visit the kitchen of this restaurant directly if we want. In addition, this restaurant is open from 10 am in the morning to 10pm. There is also a facility of motorbike parking inside the area ofrestaurant. Moreover, this restaurant does not take any extra service charge and tax.

Commitment

Induprasad gauchan

Owner

Muktinath Thakali Kitchen is continuously working for the welfare of the Nepali food since 10 years. Our main aim is to satisfy and to service those Nepali and foreigner customers according to their choice. We have taken it as our first responsibility. In our restaurant, many tourists from more than 100 different countries have tasted Nepali food that came here with their different purpose and thanked us. Here, we have always committed to provide the healthy and proper Nepali food according to our customer's choice.

Pleasant  environment, Great taste

Nadia Persaud

 London, United Kingdom

My first taste of authentic Nepalese dhal bhaat came on my second night of my six week stay in this beautiful country. Driven on the back of a motorbike to the Muktinath Thakali Kitchen, it was explained that every region has a different approach to making dhal bhaat, but that the people who run this restaurant  came from a region famed across the Nepalese for the taste they achieved.

Greeted at the reception desk with a massive smile and a hearty Namaste from the owner, I was excited to see that the restaurant was quite busy with local patrons. I’ve always believed that if local people are using a restaurant then the food must be good. Seated in the picturesque garden, the dhal bhaat arrived on a huge plate, delivered with another smile from the friendly staff which only added to the pleasant environment.

A generous portion of rice in the middle and an assortment of pickles, curried vegetables and dhal surrounding it, this food was as attractive to look at as it was tasty to eat. Delicately spiced and cooked to make you want more – staff attentively wait to provide refills of any item on your plate that finishes -the meal is healthy and nutritious but equally tasty and delicious. This is now my last week in Nepal and I have eaten at the Muktinath Thakali Kitchen four times, and I’m planning to enjoy it one more time before I leave!