Try Nepalese Cuisine at Himalayan Wild Yak

Himalayan Wild Yak is one of the most distinctive and warmly received restaurant openings in recent Arlington memory — a family-owned Nepalese restaurant at 1010 N. Glebe Rd. in Ballston that opened in March 2025, taking over the former Booeymonger sandwich shop space. It is the second location for the Magar family — brothers Keshar and Dip Jarga Magar and their business partner Tuk Prasad Gurung, all originally from a small village outside Kathmandu — who opened the original Himalayan Wild Yak in Ashburn in 2021 and quickly earned recognition from the Washington Post and Northern Virginia Magazine. The restaurant’s mission is to share the flavors, traditions, and warmth of Nepalese home cooking with Northern Virginia diners, including the star ingredient that gives the restaurant its name.

Yak — a lean, richly flavored mountain animal native to the Himalayas, sourced from farms in Pennsylvania and Colorado — appears throughout the menu in momos (traditional Nepalese dumplings), korma sauce, fried rice, and chaat. The broader menu includes butter chicken, bone-in goat curry, tandoori chicken, samosas, sel roti (traditional rice bread), and kurauni, a traditional pudding-like dessert. The gorgeous Dhaka cloth napkins were made by the owners’ father, a tailor in Nepal. “Yakky Hour” runs daily 3–6 p.m. with discounted appetizers and cocktails. Hours are Sunday–Thursday noon–9:30 p.m., Friday–Saturday noon–10 p.m.

Address: 1010 N. Glebe Rd. | Website: himalayanwildyak.com | Phone: (703) 718-4977