Festivals · October 2025

A Dashain feast by the water

Marigold after marigold. Sticky-sweet mithai. Tables pulled together for everyone who walks in.

Dashain at Baithak is less a reservation and more an open door. We set long tables on the lakeside terrace, light diyas along the rail, and cook the dishes our grandmothers would recognise — goat curry, beaten rice, achar in every colour.

Guests share plates with strangers who become friends by dessert. That is the point. Pokhara has always gathered people from every trail; we only give them a table.

If you are in town for the festival, come early. We keep most seats for walk-ins, because the best evenings are unplanned.

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