2 places to eat
The Family Table
All meals at Glenmist are home cooked and taken together: breakfast and dinner at the long table, afternoon tea on the verandah.
Dining room
The Family Table
One long table in the Main Bungalow's dining room, where guests and hosts eat together. No menu card: the kitchen cooks the day's meal from the estate garden, the village market and the season.
- Breakfast
- 7:30am – 10am
- Lunch
- 1pm – 2:30pm
- Dinner
- 7:30pm – 9:30pm
From the hills
- Pork momos with tomato-sesame acharSteamed to order at lunch; vegetable momos with churpi on request.Market price
- Gundruk and bean soupFermented mustard greens from the estate, sour and warming, a winter staple.Market price
- Smoked pork with bamboo shootSlow-cooked with dalle chillies from the kitchen garden.Market price
- Nepali thaliDal, seasonal greens, aloo dum, achar and rice, as the estate families eat it.Market price
Verandah tea room
The Tea Verandah
The Main Bungalow's deep front verandah, where afternoon tea is served every day with the estate's own teas and something from the oven.
- Afternoon tea
- 4pm – 6:30pm
- Sundowners
- 6pm – 7:30pm
Estate teas
- Glenmist first flushPale gold and floral; plucked in March and April.Market price
- Glenmist second flush muscatelFuller, with the muscatel note Darjeeling is known for.Market price
- Autumnal flushRounded and coppery; lovely with milk.Market price