Himalaya Kosheli Nepali & Indian
Bhim Limbu cooked at Saffron and Bombay Bistro for a decade before his friend Devi Bhetuwal talked him into opening this room. Bhetuwal says he would not have done it with anyone else at the stove. They opened in 2018 in a shopping center off Spicewood Springs Road. What Limbu cooks off the grill is the Kathmandu end of the menu: sekuwa on a skewer, choila, momos filled and fried to order.
Why go
Bhetuwal is from Nepal and Limbu is the head chef, and the split is the whole story: Bhetuwal says he came in because the cook was good. I wouldn't open the restaurant if I didn't have a very good chef. That's why I came in. He's a very good chef.
3 What Limbu sends out is the Kathmandu end of the menu: choila, which is marinated, spiced and grilled meat, and sekuwa, which is lamb or mushroom on a skewer over fire.3 Eater Austin gave the room one of thirty-eight slots on its Summer 2026 map. The field it competes in is not crowded: Austin's South Asian food scene has a small but strong contingent of North Indian and Nepalese restaurants.
2 There is a daily lunch buffet with the Himalayan goat curry on it, alongside butter chicken and chana masala, and a rotating dish added Friday through Sunday.3 Matthew Odam, the Statesman's restaurant critic, says the buffet is not the point: venture beyond the buffet for made-to-order specialties like delicate momos.
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Order this / avoid
- Order: the momos. Eater's writer picks them out as the dish to have:
the chewy, pan-fried Nepalese dumplings.
2 - Then the chili momo, which is Bhetuwal's claim to something nobody else in town does. He told Community Impact in 2019 that Limbu is the only chef in Austin making chili chicken and chili vegetable dumplings. That is his word, not a critic's.3
- Odam's own order:
Gobi Manchurian, chicken lollipops, chili momo, tarka dal, bone-in goat curry.
1 - Bhetuwal's own favorite is the sekuwa, marinated and barbecued on a skewer, in lamb or mushroom.3
- Avoid: filling up at the steam trays. That is the fastest way to eat here and the worst.
What locals & experts say
- Eater Austin put it on the Summer 2026 essentials map at the cheapest of its four price bands, in the North Indian and Nepalese group.2
- Matthew Odam named it one of his three other favorite Indian restaurants in the Austin area in July 2025, and led with what the room smells like:
The scents of cumin, clove and cardamom billow from the pans when you lift the lids on the generous lunch buffet platters.
1 - Iain Oldman profiled the owners for Community Impact in November 2019, when the room was a year old, and got Bhetuwal's pitch on the record:
There are many things we serve, like choila. We serve some of the most authentic Nepali food.
3 - I have not found a full review of this kitchen anywhere.
Good to know
- Where it is: a suite in the Spicewood Springs Shopping Center in Barrington Oaks, in northwest Austin, off Research Boulevard.3
- The weekend menu grows. Bhetuwal adds a rotating buffet dish Friday to Sunday and weekend specials like lamb Manchurian.3
- Takeout can be ordered online.2
Verdict
should-visit — Bhetuwal says Limbu is the only chef in Austin making chili momos, and that claim is the reason to drive here rather than to the next Indian room on the map. Everything worth eating is fired to order behind the steam trays, and it costs almost nothing. Read the menu.