I’d said I would have another Delhi restaurant report from my considerable backlog on Sunday and, by god, it’s still Sunday in Minnesota! Not for very much longer, but it’s still Sunday!

This is not the Delhi restaurant report I’d planned to post, however. I’d hoped to get another of my long-delayed reports of a couple of meals eaten at the same restaurant across 2025 out. But as it turned out, the theme of this weekend was the endless processing of the massive harvests of tomatoes coming in from my community garden plot and I did not have time to process and resize the large number of photographs from those meals. And so I have for you instead a quick report on a quick lunch eaten with a friend in March. Nobody who reads my Delhi restaurant reports regularly (assuming any such people exist) will be surprised to learn that this lunch was eaten in Humayunpur. It was not eaten, however, in a restaurant specializing in the food of a state from India’s north-east. It was instead a Nepali meal, eaten at Bhansaghar.

I’ve reported on a lunch at Bhansaghar before. But that meal was not eaten at this location. That first meal was eaten at the original location of Bhansaghar. As I noted in my review of lunch at the Naga restaurant, Shilloi, a few months after that first Bhansaghar outing, while walking around the alleys of Humayunpur I’d come across a larger, swankier location of Bhansaghar. I’d made a mental note to check it out at some point. And so when an old friend and I made plans for lunch in South Delhi in March it was there we went.

The restaurant’s interior is as attractive as it was when I’d poked my head in in December 2024. It was also as empty on this early weekday afternoon as it had been then. I assume they do most of their business at dinner and on the weekends. It’s also the case that people eat lunch quite a bit later in Delhi than we were doing. We had our pick of tables. We passed on the traditional, floor seating and chose a table with regular chairs. Ordering is now done only via a qr code, and that’s where the menu lives.

We decided to start with chicken choila, the classic spicy stir-fry and an order of steamed pork momos. Both were excellent as was the unexpectedly large serving of tomato chutney we also got. We followed this opening round with two bowls of thukpa. I got the smoked pork thukpa and my friend got the chicken thukpa. Both were different in soup consistency and noodle thickness from the thukpas I remember eating in my schooldays in Darjeeling in the Late Cretaceous, but that’s probably just a function of variation. We were pretty full at this point but given how much we’d liked the pork momos, we decided to get an order of the steamed buff(alo) momos as well. Wouldn’t you know it, these weren’t as good—the flavour was a bit too overbearingly meaty somehow. Oh yes, we’d also got an order of tingmo to mop up the choila—this steamed bread was excellent as well.

For a look at the restaurant and our meal, launch the slideshow below. Scroll down to see how much it all cost and to see what’s coming next.

Service was indifferent but you don’t expect very much more in Humayunpur. Cost? With tip the total came to about Rs. 2400. That’s just over $25 at the current exchange rate. $12.50/head is on the expensive side for Humayunpur,  but really, it was enough food for three hungry adults. I’d happily go back for those pork momos and the chicken choila; and also to try more of the menu. Maybe next year.

Alright, what’s coming up next week on the blog. In just over an hour my weekly booze review will go up. On Tuesday I’ll have another report from Bombay in April/May (the end is in sight for those); on Wednesday I’ll have a quick look at a casual Mexican lunch in Minneapolis; on Friday, another Seoul report from May; and next Sunday, hopefully, that last 2025 report from my Delhi backlog. Let’s see how it goes.