Lhasa Restaurants

Favorite Dish: One of our favorite tibetan dishes are the momos. It is a dough with filling. You can get the variety with meat or the vegetarian one. Both varieties can be steamed or fried.
The picture shows next to the yak-noodle soup, always a good filling lunch, the steamed momos.

Tashi 2 is very populair with backpackers. The food is good and reasonable priced, certainly much cheaper than Shangrila.

The benches you have to sit on are not very confortable especially in combination with the low tables, but then the dining here is not a long experience.

Favorite Dish: Try a bobi ( pancakes you have to fill with vegetables( you can also chosse meat) and sour cream, they are delicious !!

The Shangrila offers entertainment after dinner. The waiters are giving a show with traditional tibetan music and dance. The atmosphere is great and the joy on the performers faces is overwhelming.

The food is good as long as you eat a la carta. They have a buffet at 40 Yuan, including the show, but the buffet is not large in quantity. We ate with our group and an other group of 25 people in total and the last ones at the buffet hat to scrape the dishes.
Our next visit a few days later we had a la carte and that was fine.

Excellent pizza in the middle of Lhasa - located right next to Barkhor Square and the Jokhang temple. When I was there, there was a very sarcastic and very funny owner, who always raised a laugh from the foreign tourists.

Dunya Restaurant & Bar.

Nice ambience & good food.
Owner from Rotterdam & was a former travel guide in Tibet. I guess you could get free advise if you lunch & dine here? ;-)

Outlet only opens 8 months a year.

There's a bar & you can relax, play chess or cards after your dinner.

Favorite Dish: Yak steak & enchilada. Ryan & Michael enjoyed the enchilada v. much! Remarkably good, if not the very best I've ever tried!

SNOWLAND RESTAURANT, next to Jokhang Monastery.

Great selection of food at very affordable prices.

My 'Yak Steak' costs RMB 30 (less than US$4)! Isn't that amazing?!

This may also be the only place you can find cheese cake in Tibet!!!

Favorite Dish: Yak Steak! Hm, yummmmmmmmmmy!!!

It's hard for western people to eat in Tibet but, if you want, in Lhasa, you can find many restaurant with a sort of chinese fodd like in the chinese restaurants of your country.

Favorite Dish: Momos
Springs roll
Vegetables in all kind
Noodles with meat or vegetables
The with salted butter
but ... NO Tsampa, please!

Tashi restaurant in Lhasa, close to Penthoc Guesthouse.
Recently, some Dutch people opened a new restaurant close to Yak hotel; there, you can eat a very peculiar mixture of Tibetan and ethnic food,...listening U2 in concert.

Favorite Dish: Momos: Something like “ravioli”. You can choose between steamed momos and fried momos; between meat momos and veggie momos.
Salt butter tea: Hot boiled tea plus salt, plus butter; everything stirred heavily until the tea and butter are well blended and ready to serve. The taste of this tea is supposed to be a bit rank. Wondering about my opinion? Try the butter tea and let me know. Although I love eating local food almost everywhere, I wasn’t so brave to try the tea.
Lhasa beer: Alcoholic beverages are to avoid at this altitude, so: drink Lhasa beer! Almost no alcohol. Traditional Tibetan beer is made from barley, slightly sour.