At Café Kalimpong,

while we ensure that you enjoy your favourites from the menu, a lot is going on behind the scenes. While we’re busy serving you the freshest food, our parents stand firmly behind us to ensure that we put only fresh and green ingredients on your plates.

In this ridge where we played, we were whole-heartedly nurtured by our local community with home-grown food and other essentials. Yes, farm to table is not a trend we’re waking up to-simple sustainable practices have always been a way of life for us! This wholesome lifestyle we grew up with, we wanted to share with the world. Therefore, most of the ingredients that we put on your plate are sourced directly from our own fields. Except for the salt of course! There is no salt mine in Kalimpong, but if there was we’d be ready with our salt pans too!

Farming has always been part of our family tradition which we still proudly practice. Growing up I remember running through the green fields of “Raya ko saag” (mustard greens) and getting a good scolding for trampling on them – At that tender age, our innocent ignorance gave way to learning the value of our farm produce and respecting nature. My brother and I particularly recall the harvesting of Ginger before Dasain with much fondness. We would be bubbling with excitement and hurry to weigh the harvest from our parents’ fields on the scales at the local grocery shop. Our anticipating eyes would calculate the weight of our harvest with the rising needle of the scales, and our hearts would skip a beat as the scale moved higher and higher! You see, our harvest would directly fund the upcoming Dasain expenses which included most importantly money for our new clothes & the proverbial 'Dingo' boots!