The Veranda
A single run of tables along the arched windows, under a woven bamboo ceiling and rattan lamps. The room to take when you want to watch the road.
Our Story
Swad Satkar
स्वाद & सत्कारFlavour & HospitalityThakali kitchen · Bar · Four rooms
Two words over the door. Swad is what leaves the kitchen — dal simmered down, gundruk sharp with the ferment, masu cooked slow. Satkar is what happens at the table: the water poured before you ask, the second helping of rice you did not order, the room kept warm for as long as you want to sit in it. One is cooked. The other is practised.
Come down
the stairs
The lounge, past the slats
04Rooms
One kitchen, four ways to sit down.
The Snug
A door that closes. Six chairs, one long table, a window cracked open to the tree outside. Booked whole, for a family or a quiet argument.
The Lounge
Deep leather, low pine tables and a slat screen that gives every bench its own corner. Where the bar list gets read properly.
The Long Room
Booths down both walls and the column in the middle everyone ends up leaning on. The room that takes the overflow on a Friday.
By day
By day, a thakali kitchen.
Set thali, seconds on the rice, and the fans on. The veranda fills first.
After dark · until 12:00 AM
By night, the bar takes the room.
Lamps down to the rattan, sekuwa off the grill, and the road going quiet outside.
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Rooms
Veranda, Snug, Lounge, Long Room.
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Katori on the thali
Plus rice in the middle, and it is refilled.
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Seats behind a closed door
The Snug, bookable as a whole room.
The story behind Swad Satkar
Two kitchens, one welcome
Swad Satkar means flavour offered as hospitality — स्वादमा नेपालीपन, सेवामा आत्मीयता. The name sets the terms: cook the way it is cooked at home, and receive people the way you would receive them at home.
The house sits on a corner under the sign that reads Thakali · Thai · Continental, with the liquor store at street level and the dining rooms above. Evenings, the strings of lights go on, the flags catch the wind, and the room fills with people coming off the road.
Two kitchens work side by side. One follows the Thakali set — rice or dhido, dal, curry, greens, achar, dahi — the food of the Thak Khola, carried down the trade route and served on steel. The other works Thai: tom yum, nam sai, green and red curry, papaya salad, prawn and trout. Nothing is fused. Both are cooked properly, and you choose.
Founding year, family history and the names behind the kitchen are placeholders for now — send us those details and they go in here.
What We Keep
- THE NAME
Swad Satkar — flavour and hospitality
स्वाद for taste, सत्कार for the welcome. The two words describe the whole intention of the house.
- THE KITCHEN
Two traditions, cooked separately
A Thakali kitchen and a Thai kitchen, each cooked on its own terms. Nothing is blended to please both.
- THE ROOM
Above the street, under the lights
Brick, timber windows, prayer flags across the front and warm light down the whole facade after dark.
- THE HOURS
Morning tea to midnight
Open from 8:00 AM for tea and coffee, through lunch sets and dinner, until the last order at midnight.