Restaurants in The Terai & Mahabharat Range
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Valentine’s Bakery Cafe
This friendly, clean and modern little cafe specialises in lassies, cakes and momos. It’s popular with students, and one of the few places in the Terai that’s nonsmoking.
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Dharan Kitchen
Located upstairs from the taxi stand (opposite the clock tower), this restaurant has an excellent ambience with bamboo walls and Buddhist motifs. It serves quality Indian and Western food and cheap, cold beer. Our favourite is the local take on stroganoff – the ‘Chicken Strong On/Off’. It also has decent rooms with shared bathroom for Rs 500.
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Nanglo West
You can’t go without sampling the Nepali delights at Nanglo West. This Kathmandu chain is a class act, serving local Newari dishes like choyla (dried buffalo or duck meat with chilli and ginger), served with chura (flattened rice) and spiced potatoes in curd. There’s also a decent bakery out front.
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Rooftop Family Restaurant
Facing the small Janak Mandir, this upmarket place claims to be ‘the only choice of smart people’ in Janakpur, and we’re inclined to agree. There’s an excellent selection of vegetarian curries, and the Chinese food is pretty good too.
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KC’s Restaurant
The most popular choice in Sauraha, KC’s is set in a Spanish-style hacienda with an open terrace and a fire pit at the back. The chefs here cook up a feast and the menu runs from Nepali and Indian curries to pizzas and pasta.
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Sweet Memory Restaurant
An attractive family-run shack restaurant with plenty of flowers and pot plants, Sweet Memory prides itself on its home-style cooking. The roast chicken is recommended, and it also serves up good filtered coffee.
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Kitchen Hut
This bright and bustling place is popular with young students who flock here for tasty and cheap food. The menu runs the gamut from dosas (fried lentil-flour pancakes) and momos (dumplings) to pizza.
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Threefox Restaurant
This upstairs restaurant is beautifully decorated with colourful Buddhist curtains and paintings on the wall. There’s a range of Tibetan, Indian and Western food, and outdoor seating looking over the bazaar.
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Pizza King
The best option in town is Pizza King, a garden oasis of low tables, cushions and atmospheric lighting. The food is cheap, and the spring rolls and garlic chicken are recommended.
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Nanglo West
Hidden away in the old town on the west bank of the river, this Kathmandu chain restaurant is by far the best in town, featuring interesting Newari dishes and pleasant outdoor garden seating.
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River Sunset Restaurant
On the sandy banks of the Rapti river, the most popular River Sunset Restaurant does a mouth-watering evening barbecue of duck, pork, chicken and buffalo over an open fire.
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Jungle View Restaurant
Probably the best of the terrace restaurants, Jungle View has all your traveller favourites, as well as a beer garden and views looking over the main strip.
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Kitchen Cafe
Just before the bridge over the Narayani, this baroque colonial garden restaurant serves the best food in town. The spicy Chinese dishes are recommended.
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Lumbini Garden Restaurant
By the main car park, Lumbini Garden Restaurant is a modern red-brick place serving the usual mix of cold Cokes and veg thalis (plate meals).
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Pilgrim's Rest Cottage
Pilgrim's Rest Cottage, near the Burmese stupa, serves good value Nepali set meals to hungry pilgrims and school groups.
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Hamro Hotel Restautant & Bar
Hamro Hotel Restautant & Bar makes for a delightful spot to breakfast on the banks of the Rapti.
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Star Hotel
This simple tandoori canteen serves cheap and tasty thalis (Indian plate meals) and tandoori chicken.
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Peace Land Restaurant
Popular with locals, this lime-green restaurant has tasty chicken chow mein, curries and cold beer.
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Himanchal Cabin
A reliable misthan bhandar (sweet shop and vegetarian restaurant) close to the clock tower.
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Pooja Sweets
A reliable misthan bhandar (sweet shop and vegetarian restaurant).
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