This year’s participants include the new Prow restaurant at Buffalo Mountain Lodge, the also new Hello Sunshine, The Radiant (with a package that includes a live show), or for something truly luxurious, discounted tasting menus at the Eden in the Rimrock Hotel. Much like the dine-around festivals that we see throughout the year in Calgary, Taste of Adventure asks participating restaurants to put together special prix fixe menus at relatively affordable prices. Banff has seen considerable growth in the quality and quantity of its restaurants over the last couple of years and this event gives diners a chance to explore some of the hot spots as well as old favourites. 1-28, visitors can take in the Taste for Adventure festival, which showcases a significant slice of Banff’s best restaurants. *** Anyone who has been planning a quiet getaway to Banff might want to put something in the calendar for the otherwise quiet month of November, which is high foodie season in the mountain town. Brendan Miller/Postmedia Brendan Miller/Postmedia To reserve a table or to order takeout, visit. “We’re bringing the mountain food of Himalayas to the mountains of the Rockies.”Ĭalgary Momo House is located at #2150, 4310 104th Ave.
“I’ve travelled a lot as a chef and we wanted to share the real food of Nepal with people here,” Magar says. Magar is pleased with the response to the restaurant - not only is it bringing a taste of home to Calgary’s relatively small Nepalese community (he says they also have Nepalese customers coming in from Edmonton, Medicine Hat, and even out of province), but is also introducing other Calgarians to dishes and spice combinations that they may have not tried before. Sharma also flexes his fine dining muscles with a less traditional pan-seared salmon in a turmeric-coconut curry sauce with buttered rice ($24.50) and Himalayan butter chicken ($17.90), because who doesn’t like a good butter chicken? Machha Tareko fried fish at Calgary Momo House. The momos are certainly impressive and crave-worthy, but it would be a shame to not further explore the menu, which includes hard-to-find Nepalese specialties like sukuti sandheko, a combination of dry-aged goat meat, flaked rice, and pickled roasted soybeans ($9.50), macha tareko, which are small fried fish served with a side of aachar ($9.50), and plates of Nepal-style chow mein, spiked with chili sauce and either chicken or tofu ($13.50-$14.50). Sharma makes an excellent version of the restaurant’s namesake peaked dumplings, with options for fried, steamed, or jhol (sauced) momos filled with goat, chicken, or veggies and served with tomato and chilli chutneys (ranging $9.50 to $13.90 for 10 dumplings, depending on style and filling). While the room may not be particularly fancy, Calgary Momo House excels with its food. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Ale Magar brings her hospitality experience to the table, explaining less familiar dishes to customers while throwing in a few stories about her childhood in Nepal.
It’s not the kind of place you’re likely to stumble upon unless you happen to live near the relatively new development, but the team has made the most of their location, filling the small restaurant with simple but modern furnishings. The restaurant is located on the very northeast corner of the city in the community of Cityscape, just east of the airport.
Magar still has a full-time job as a chef at the Fairmount Palliser, leaving Ale Magar to run the restaurant’s front of house and Sharma to take care of chef duties. The response was so positive they sought out a space for a full-service restaurant. To fill the gap, they started working on recipes for restaurant-quality Nepalese food, treating lucky friends and co-workers to deliveries of plump momo dumplings and other specialties. All three founders (the Magars are married and Sharma is a good friend) have extensive experience working in hotels and fine dining restaurants around the world, but when the pandemic restrictions first hit, they found themselves without jobs to go into every day.