Neyphu Heritage Café

Western Bhutan


With traditional wooden furniture and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking fields, this modern and stylish place is a good lunch spot if you are sightseeing around Paro. It's strong on light meals, from pizza to pad thai and Bhutanese or Indian set meals, and there's a full bar and cafe.

The cafe was set up by the rinpoche of nearby Neyphu Goemba (whose restored former residence stands next door) to generate income for monastery renovations. Given enough warning the cafe can often arrange for the rinpoche to give an audience or a talk on Buddhism to groups.


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