Newari feast house · Patan
Eat the way Patan feasts.
Samay baji, smoky choila, crisp bara and warm yomari, cooked from family recipes and served on stitched leaf plates, two lanes from the Durbar Square.
Opentoday in Patan
24dishes, all made here
3rooms: courtyard, dabali, rooftop
Lapte bhojEleven dishes on leaf plates, in the order a Newar feast is eaten.
Build your own
Your samay baji, your way.
Every Newar family argues about what belongs on the plate. Start with beaten rice, then add what you love and watch it land on the leaf.
Your platter
Just baji so farRs 120
From the kitchen
Full menuDishes worth the walk from Durbar Square.
Why lapte
The plate is part of the meal.
Lapte are sal leaves stitched together with bamboo slivers. At a Newar feast everyone sits in a long row and the food arrives course by course, beaten rice first, sweet curd last. We kept the plates and the order, and added chairs for those who want them.
Guests
Said over the last plate.
Sample reviews written for this concept site.
★★★★★
“My grandmother’s choila, I swear. I came for lunch and stayed until the yomari.”
★★★★★
“We booked the rooftop for my parents’ anniversary. Temples lit up, the lapte bhoj, thwon in clay cups. Perfect.”
★★★★★
“The staff explained every dish on the feast and in what order to eat it. Best meal of our Nepal trip.”
Tonight, on the rooftop?
The Durbar Square temples light up at dusk. Our seven rooftop tables go first, so book ahead.