Nepali Kitchen And Chai Garden

Food is really awesome specially chicken momo. We tried milk tea as well exactly what I wanted authentic Nepali Test ..Definitely coming back .

Incredibly tasty, cutest ambiance with private outdoor huts for dining. Owner is so sweet and cooks all the food, portions are generous and prices are very reasonable! Must try!!!

Possibly the cutest place on earth. You enter a zen garden-like space with individual outdoor heated huts for a really intimate and cozy experience. The food was amazing. Highly recommend the lentils and dumplings. The server (maybe the owner?? is darling and so helpful. The price is also unmatched. We got an insane amount of food for $24. We will be back!

The area they have for seating outside is really cute and looks like a vestige of something they had done during covid and decided to keep. The man we interacted with at the window who also brought us our food was lovely. When you can peer through their little ordering stall into the interior of the house, it looks like it 's very beautiful inside and it would be very nice to sit there inside especially in the winter (if they open it again). The little seating cabinets they built outside are fine and I think they 're going to work in shoulder season. They have made the unconventional move of turning a plastic tuffshed into a little crooked but comfy bathroom on the side yard.The chai is very good. The momos are pretty great. They have the characteristically thick skins which are normal for Nepali dumplings and a stuffing of curried, ground pork which I think is a little unusual but it is tasty and juicy. The orange, tomato-based looking dipping sauce they served with it was mildly sweet and really had very little flavor.We ordered the Nepali platter and it was pretty disappointing: The little chunks of barbequed pork came very dry and completely cold. 1/4 of the plate was filled with just peanuts with some different powdered things put on them as a kind of garnish condiment which although tasty, seems like a kind of subpar move, the cumin potatoes although tasty were half-uncooked and therefore inedible, the fried potatoes were nice but didn 't really have a fatty sauce that went well with them. They serve their spicy green sauce in tiny thimble size containers with the single-user Solo plastic waste that I hate. Overall they are doing the wasteful thing of using single use takeout materials for dine-in which I think should be outlawed. Rant: In my opinion, every place that serves dine-in food should serve it on washable plates and every place that does dine out should only use compostable containers.We ordered the Dhal Bhat and it was totally bland and boring. No interesting chunks in the lentils, no nice underlying broth base and nothing done to go the extra mile to make it delicious.The garnishes they use are dry slices of carrot that look like they were cut up some days ago and frost burned slices of cucumber that obviously have been over-refrigerated.Kind of seems like these guys are running on autopilot and have gotten good reviews from the neighbors as a form of charitable interpretation and love for the very valuable little slice of beautiful Nepali atmosphere this place brings to Portland. I 've spent more than 4 months in Nepal and have had some excellent food there (even though truly delicious food in Nepal is not the norm) but THIS restaurant isn 't the place to wow anyone with the food or represent the best of what you can find in Nepal culinarily.

Ambiance here is everything. Very pleasant and welcoming staff. Sweet little respite spot and the momos are yummy