In just five months, Café Chops has created a niche for itself as an eatery that serves the most delicious Korean food as well as a wide range of continental cuisine. Despite being relatively smaller in space than the other bigger restaurants in the Capital, Café Chops has seen its popularity grow.
Errm. Yeah, whatever. If God can create Universe in a blink, why can't they become the place with 'the most delicious Korean food', right? Nope. However, what they can do is get a stupid gullible reviewer from some paper to come, feed her as much as she can eat, tell her tales, and send her happy and fulfilled. So, until now, all we know about the restaurant is that it serves Korean food, and its name is Cafe Chops.
Located at the corner of Mandala Street in Thamel, Café Chops still has the stars and bells left over from the Christmas celebrations hung on the walls and from the ceilings. Simple and sleek, the whole restaurant is framed in wooden furniture in yellow hues, besides being bright and colourful with souvenirs and showpieces from different countries.
Run by Koreans, the restaurant only offers selected Korean delicacies to its clientele Kimbap and Bibimbap are its popular dishes. Kimbap is sushi served in Korean style, slowly becoming a trend in Kathmandu these days.
More Info here about the location. The place is wooden--not that 'natural wooden' wooden but 'polished shiny wooden' wooden. Which is fine, if you are a hungry wanderer in Thamel who wants to go to a genuine restaurant run by genuine(!) Koreans(presumably South Koreans). BTW, sushi is not becoming trend in Kathmandu in the foreseeable future; all those that had the misfortune opportunity of tasting it have generally expressed highly unfavorable views. In the WE DONT LIKE NO DAMN SUSHI kinda way.
Bibimbap, the main course, includes five different side-dishes. Besides the soup and the rice, eight different kinds of raw vegetables topped by poached eggs makes it a healthy meal for two.
Apart from its food menu, its long breakfast menu along with Illy coffee, tea, and shakes makes it a quintessential café. But what makes the place even more attractive is the free wi-fi internet service. That’s one reason why Café Chops is often visited by familiar faces rather than new faces.
Café Chops opens till ten at night with everything in its menu available the whole day.
So, there's apparently lots of rice, soup,vegetables and eggs. So Korean. Ooh, ohh, Wifi? Free? Okaay, now I am listening. What was that again? It opens till ten? So if you want free internet with (not free) Korean food, go to cafe chops. You can surf the (free)internet wayy past your mommy allows at home.
And then there is this other coffee place Coffee Escape Company which apparently is literally a coffee company, or maybe it helps you escape if you drink it.
These days, there are many coffee shops looking to refresh tired city-dwellers across the Capital. What sets Coffee Escape Company apart is that its name really fits any bill you get when you are here.
Illy, an Italian coffee, is probably the second-most popular brand (following Nepali coffee) in the country today. And Coffee Escape Company serves this roast to delicious perfection.
The café has been in the scene for more than a year now, serving this particular Italian coffee. Initially visited by mostly foreigners, it has slowly reeled in local coffee lovers.
Italian coffee sounds interesting. Gotta go there, at least once.
The cosy café offers wifi and over 50 varieties of superb coffee. Open from seven in the morning till ten at night, it truly caters to the worst of workaholics.
Free internet. Nice.
Besides serving delicious espressos, mochas, lattes, and cappuccinos, there is also a list of Illy espresso cocktails such as Irish coffee, Vodka Espresso, and Baileys Cappuccino, for those looking for a little hardness to their blends.
On food side, you get wraps, sandwiches, and pasta for lunch and dinner. The Mexican menu does not fail to please either. Breakfast includes omelette, ham, bacon, accompanied with breads. For dessert cheese cake, chocolate, apple pie, ice-cream are the sins to die for for all sweeth-tooths.
So order your coffee, with or without additions, and drink it too. Winter suddenly gets better.
The choice of available coffee types is intriguing. And apparently there are types of coffee that'll get you dead-drunk. And they have Italian coffee. And free internet. And non-coffee item. And you'll have to mortgage your motorbike to for a big meal. Mediocre, but worth at least a try.
Images and original pieces from Kathmandu Post
PS: This was one of the last pieces of commentary on restaurant reviews. We will soon have our own restro-reviews.
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