Address DK Shibuya Bldg 3Fl, 16-9 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku Opening Hours From 11:00 am to 2:30pm and 5:00pm to 1:00am Telephone 3463-5181 Map Yes CCs OK

A second Nepalese restaurant (the first being the much older Kantipur) in Shibuya can't possibly hurt. Especially when it's as good as Mandala.

Mandala is defined as a Nepalese restaurant and bar, and this second attribute must be taken into serious consideration: the menu contains seven pages of drinks, a cornucopia including sake, vodka, whisky, bourbon, tequila, gin, rum ... there's no end to it. Strangely enough, there are no wines, even though they are in raging fashion at the moment.
The place is small, quiet and pleasant, if a little too typical with its wooden carvings and mandalas on the walls, and prices moderate, never over 1400 yen, but usually well below that limit.
I found the menu to be less rich than Kantipur's or Saultee Mode's, whose menus offer more traditional Nepali stuff, but excellent nonetheless. We had Masala Papadums, Tandoori Chicken Grill, Dahl Mutton, Chicken Hot Hot (fairly spicy, but eatable mutton curry), sekuwa and choyela, all good. More, even on a Friday night we had a beautiful table at the window all to ourselves for the whole evening, and so had all the time we needed to unwind. The bill (forget the bottom line at your peril) was just three thousand yen apiece including several beers.
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