Himalayan Yak
“Tingmo, Yak Sizzler, Beef Momo, Chicken Tikka Marsala with Naan, and Tingmo with a Bollywood and a Cosmo.”
“We were there for two hours and really enjoyed ourselves trying a bunch of Tibetan and Nepali dishes.”
“We had chicken lollipop, veg moma, fried red snapper and chicken sizzler.”
Himalayan Yak
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Really enjoyed my dinner here!
The food was great and really tasty. We ordered pork momos, Chicken Thali and chicken tikka masala.
Everything was great! Service is slightly slow… but ok. Great prices too
Will be back
Nice cozy restaurant. They really try hard to set a chill vibe with the dim lighting and live music during dinner.
Started with chicken lollipop. Pretty standard flavor, with a nice crisp to it. Also had the goat bhuttan, easily the better off the two appetizers. Liver, intestines, etc diced and fried with onions and herbs till they're all really really dry. Great flavor with crispy texture of the veggies and soft meat. This dish has been a must order for me every time i come here.
Fried momo vs steamed momo, go with the steamed. Try the yak momo at least once, good flavor but meat itself is waaaay too lean and dry. Stick with the pork (fatter, juicier) after trying the yak.
Had the Nepali platter once. Enjoyed the side dishes immensely. But some main items like the doughy chewy thing must be an acquired taste. Wasn't digging it much.
Goat curry and chicken (though chicken meat a bit dry) masala are great. Sauce flavor slightly better than meat imo. Great for dipping the naan in. Naan definitely prepared excellently here, really hot and buttery.
Service is friendly. Never had a single complaint here.
Came here for dinner with a friend. Ordered a mango lassi and it was a bit watery compared to the indian mango lassi i usually get at an indian restuarant. Not too bad but just not what Im used to. Ordered the Chili Momos for start. The dough was really thick compared to regular momos. Not sure I would order that again. Ordered chicken curry with the bone in. Came with rice. The rice was good but the curry sauce was thin. I guess im used to thicker curry. My friend had beef shapte. It was like a beef stirfry with chili sauce. She liked it but felt it was missing something.
The waitress was a little absent also.
While this wasnt the experience I was expecting, i would try this again but maybe try to understand the options better.
Based on the food alone, this would be a 1 star review. Not to say that the food was bad overall, but it was not tasty to our palates. With a group of 5, we still didn't find any item that made us want to come back.
We had yak sausage, which was basically blood sausage. It was mushy and lacked real flavor. There was no crispness that one would expect from sausage skin.
We also had goat curry, which had a extremely strong goat smell. The goat smell had overpowered the curry and made it hard for us to enjoy the curry broth.
Only redeeming item to us was the beef momos. Full of beef and nice thick skin. Good flavor in the beef and quite filling pieces.
This restaurant's cuisine just didn't match our palates, unfortunately. We most likely won't come back but that's just a matter of preference.
3.5 stars 😀
I've been dying to come here for weeks now and I finally made it out here. Unfortunately, I was feeling under the weather, and had just suffered some crazy motion sickness so I was really looking forward to some food!
I ordered the Charred Lamb ($6.5) which was served on top of "crispy rice". Honestly, wasn't a fan of this dish. I didn't really enjoy the "char" on the lamb, it was a little too charred for my liking. Also, the crispy rice was sort of like a rice crispy texture and it just didn't do it for me.
What really saved this meal for me was the Beef Momos ($8). This was my first time trying momos and I really enjoyed it! The first bite was scorching hot and all the juices flowed out aha so be careeful! The dough was soft and the beef was a little firm but had some flavor to it. They also gave you a side of 3 sauces and what ever that green sauce was, I showered everything I ate in that. It was creamy and tangy.
Honestly, I gave them 4 stars because my stomach felt a million times better after eating here. So I will definitely come back for more. Maybe to try some of their other popular dishes.
I've never had Himalayan food, but this place seemed authentic – a lot of the clientele were Tibetan.
We had the Sandeko Bandel – wild board cuts, that are a lot like soft bacon. Pretty flavorful, pretty fatty. Pretty yummy.
Then we had the little smelt fish – these were probably my favorite. Bite-size crispy fish with a nice hot sauce.
The chicken lollipops were really good alone – the sauce was OK, almost tasted like honey mustard.
Finally, we had the yak momos. Not bad, but nothing too special, to be honest. A lot like thick-skinned Chinese dumplings.
Good food, good service, nice decor. The lunch special/buffet seems to be a steal.
Tea was the best part of the meal (very good chai – we skipped on the Tibetan tea as it has butter). Momo and Spicy tofu dish were above average – sauce for momos were good. I wouldn't go out of my way for it though; it's a safe choice. Service a bit slow, but it was on a Sunday afternoon. Very peaceful ambiance.
I wasn't blown away by the food here. The veg dumplings were not very flavourful (although the sauces served with it were nice). The one thing I really liked was the fried small fish appetizer – crispy and spicy and yummy. We got 3 entrees. I got the Himalayan thali with fish and buckwheat roti. The roti was sort of dry but interesting and hearty, and the accompanying little bowls were average – although the fish itself was good and nicely flavoured. Another entree was the paneer and that was solid. And the last entree was spicy tofu, and that was pretty good, and served with my first taste of tingmo bread – doughy and yummy. I liked the decor of the restaurant and the service was very friendly, and it's encouraging that it seemed like a lot of Asians were there and so maybe I just need to go try a few different dishes next time.