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Narayan's Nepal Restaurant - CLOSED
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- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street, Private Lot
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
8 reviews for Narayan's Nepal Restaurant
Don't get me wrong. I LOVED the food here, but the service really creeped me out.
Food: This place really deserves 5 stars for the food. I mean, check out the lovely lunch buffet line up: http://www.yelp.com/bi..., http://www.yelp.com/bi.... The items include tandori chicken, saag paneer, all the naan you can fathom (!!! I never see this at most lunch buffets!), a vegetable medly, basmati rice, veggie pakora, samosas, curry chicken, and an array of veggie curries. Sheesh! EVERYTHING was delicious. No joke. I almost ate my self sick. All of the meats were tender and the veggies were cooked to the perfect consistency.
Service: Okay, first off, when I came in, the woman instructed me to grab as much food as possible because the buffet was closing at 3 pm and it was getting close to the hour. I was the ONLY person in there. They also kept staring at me as I ate which was weird and seemed to be talking about me. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but seriously, it's just kind of rude to treat your only patron that way. Even though I was the only person there, it took forever to get the check. While I was leaving, a couple tried to enter the restaurant and they said they were closed. I mean, I can understand why you would want to stick to business hours and all, but when you have very few customers and tons of food left, I don't see why you would refuse service.
Atmosphere: it's not the most beautiful room, but they try. The lighting was very dim when I entered. Since it was -15 F outside, I was kind of hoping for a more cheery, warm interior.
Synopsis: I don't know if I'd come back here. Even though the food was amazing, I'd probably go to the Nepalese restaurant on Table Mesa instead.
Narayan's Nepal Restaurant is close Blockbuster on 55th and Baseline in the Basemar Shopping center. What this means is that it is easily accessible by not only car but by bike as well, since the foothills trail runs right along side of the shopping center.
As such, my girlfriend and I decided to take our bikes out and head on over to try this enigmatic restaurant. Upon entering, you notice immediately three things: the place is small-ish with probably 10 tables max; the buffet takes up a serious portion of the room on the opposite sides of the tables, and there are a surprisingly large number of waiter-types for how small this place is. (Family relations?)
Anyway, they have a menu but no one was looking at it, so we decided to just go with the buffet as well. I ordered a Rose Lassi, which considering I don't really like yogurt was fairly retarded of me. Anyway, it came, tasting like buttermilk and rose water, and I pushed it aside. The waiter asked whether I liked it, I said not so much, and my girlfriend piped up and said that she would take it to go. They looked at us sort of funny, but got us a container anyway.
Well, the buffet had mad options, including something like 5 different vegetarian options, which was sa-weet. The food itself was solid...all the main dishes were excellent, while the samosas and nan you could tell was sitting there slightly too long - they had lost some of their crispiness.
But yeah, the bill was a little up there: the buffets were about 13 each, while the drinks were 2.50, so for two people it was 30 or so. But I left full and satisfied and will be going back I'm sure.
This is a better option than the Royal Peacock and from what I remember the Taj as well. The Tandoori Grill is more Southern Indian food it seems like, and I personally think the food isn't as good there, but the atmosphere is nicer, so sort of a trade-off.
My friends and I went here during a lunch break for a training at Naropa. We all got the buffet food. There were a number of vegetarian options and there were some gluten-free options. The food was tasty, especially for a buffet. I was surprised, actually. Right before we left, my friend suggested we go back and get some more of the chick peas to eat, to make the afternoon "interesting." Thankfully, we didn't do that, it would have been over the top!
Four stars for gluten-free options
Four stars for dairy-free options
Four stars for vegetarian options
Four stars for vegan options
Enjoy!
The good: The food here is really, really tasty. It's a bit out of the way, but has nice character, and they brew a mean chai.
The bad: The price. Sure, the food's good, but not enough to warrant the price. You can go other places for a comparable buffet for less dough, and for my money you're better off going to the Taj.
I LOVE Narayans, I eat there all the time, and have the buffet which is excellent. I just really love their variety and the spices in the foods. I haven't found another Indian restaurant that I like as much as Narayans.
It wasn't as Nepalese as I wanted it to be (the restaurant leans a little more towards Indian) but it was still pretty good food. I was there during the dinner buffet which I think was all you can eat for $12.95 or something in that ballpark. I thought that was a really good price for what they had. Usually restaurants like this don't have too much variety in their buffets but this place actually had a pretty good selection of stuff. Aside from the naan, rice and other starches, they had samosas, momos (Nepalese dumplings), vegetable pekoras (I think they were pekoras...), a couple of different other dishes I can't spell out right now and some Nepalese/Indian dessert. I would stay away from their saag paneer that was under seasoned and had very very few cubes of cheese. Try their pickles if you like intense flavors. They were pretty tasty. They pickled chiles, lime, and other stuff and marinated it in mustard oil which brought out the flavors even more. I ate them with the under seasoned paneer and rice and it actually made up for it.
I went on a week night so it was pretty empty. There were only maybe 8 other people in the restaurant. Since the waiters weren't so busy, I kept asking them what was in the pickles and other stuff but they were really nice about explaining everything. I'm totally going back there. The food didn't blow me away but the price and quality was good enough to keep me wanting to go back. If you stick to the buffet, the prices are much more reasonable.
This place has gone a bit down hill since the Shrestha's left in summer of 2007... I'd definitely suggest following the chef by going to NEPAL CUISINE near Foothills and Table Mesa (see my review).
Narayan's underwent a sudden change of management, as reported in the Daily Camera on August 8, 2007, and then a change of ownership soon after. These changes drastically impacted the menu, decor, and ambiance of the restaurant. I visited within days of the changeover and was terribly disappointed with the decline in quality. In fairness, it may have improved since then, so take this review with a grain of salt. I just wanted to let readers know that reviews prior to Aug. 2007 are for the "old" Narayan's. The former managers opened their own Nepali restaurant (Nepal Cuisine) on Table Mesa Rd in Boulder on September 15, 2007, as reported in Colorado Daily on October 9.
