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| - Our first time visiting and certainly not our last. From start to finish, a fantastic dining experience. LOVE this place!!!
The bf and I made reservations for 8pm on a Saturday night, highly recommend making a reso because this place was packed! We were warmly greeted and promptly sat at our table. From the second we walked in the door the smell of the restaurant was intoxicating. We already knew our meals would be delicious.
We were asked if we had been to the restaurant before and were told by our greeter that if we had any questions we could ask our server and he would be happy to help. We were already being treated like gold! So nice! The excellent service didn't stop there. When our server came we ordered drinks and he promptly returned with our drinks and a little snack to start. Nepali chick pea bread with two dipping sauces, one ginger (sweet and spicy) on yogurt (tangy and mild). The yogurt dip was OUT OF THIS WORLD delicious. I licked the serving dish clean. The ginger dip was also very good but the yogurt was the star.
We ordered the pork momo dumplings to start, the bf ordered the chicken grill mild and I ordered the mango fruity shrimp mild. Wow! Wow! Wow! The flavours, my goodness. Our pork momo dumplings (6) were served with a delicious tomato sauce for dipping. We devoured the dumplings and eagerly awaited our mains. Definitely getting these dumplings again!
The dishes came with perfectly cooked rice, a potato and green pea salad (with nepali spices, yum!) and a basket of grilled bread. The chicken grill also came with a lentil soup. The server mentioned that the grill having no sauce needs a little moisture to enjoy in the best way, so it is to be eaten with the lentil soup to help wash it down. That is not to say the chicken was dry, it wasn't, it was also cooked perfectly. The dish just doesn't come with a sauce as many of the other mains do. The bf loved the chicken grill, though when he tried my mango fruity dish, he continued to dip his chicken in it, it was THAT GOOD!!! :D The mango fruity sauce was so flavourful and amazing as I write this I want it again RIGHT NOW!!! I am a bit sensitive to spice so I ordered it mild, but I'd go for medium next time as it was not spicy at all. Not lacking in flavour though, it was unreal delicious. But would be great with spice also.
We ate everything. Not a piece of food left on either of our plates. We were stuffed, but could not resist when we saw the dessert menu. We both got chyia (unsweetened chai tea served with sugar so you can adjust to taste) and the cassava coconut cake. We also really wanted to try the mango rice pudding, it looked amazing, we will get it next time. There was also a clotted cream pistachio dish that looked incredible. So many excellent choices. The chiya is home made and spiced just right. We finished our chiya and the cake and then rolled out of the restaurant with the biggest smiles on our faces.
Our server chatted with us right until the very end of the meal. He was very professional, friendly, and we can not wait to go back. This place is going to be a new staple.
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