Newari café and restaurant

Sankhu is a Newar town with a building language of its own — load-bearing brick, carved timber posts, deep eaves, tiled roofs. The risk with hospitality here is costume: borrowing the ornament and ignoring the plan.

This scheme keeps the town's structure instead. The dining is split into a two-storey block and two open pavilions, so guests move between them across a brick courtyard rather than sitting in one sealed room. A water tank at the centre holds the space and gives the tables something to face. The upper verandah takes the afternoon; the pavilions take the evening.