ABOUT US
A directory for Nepalese Britain
Restaurants, grocers and services — found by the people who need them
WHY WE BUILT THIS
The best places were the hardest to find
Ask where to find good momo in a British town with a Nepalese community and you will get an answer, eventually. It will come from a Facebook group, or a cousin, or someone in the queue at the grocer. What you will not find is a list.
Nepalese businesses in the UK have been built almost entirely on word of mouth. It works, and it is one of the community’s strengths — but it has a ceiling. A family that has just moved to a new town knows nobody to ask. A restaurant two streets away from a hundred potential regulars stays invisible because it never appears in a search. And anyone outside the community looking for Nepalese food is quietly pointed towards the nearest Indian restaurant instead.
We built Khaja Khoj to fix that. Khaja khoj means, more or less, to look for food — and that is the whole idea. One place where Nepalese-owned businesses across the UK can be found by name, by town and by category, without needing to know somebody first.
Word of mouth got these businesses started. It should not be the only thing keeping them going.
WHAT WE COVER
More than restaurants
A community does not run on food alone. Khaja Khoj lists the businesses people actually need, whether or not they serve a meal.
- Restaurants and takeaways — from momo specialists to full Thakali thali kitchens.
- Grocers and butchers — the shops that carry jimbu, timur, dried bamboo shoot, gundruk, good ghee and everything else the supermarkets do not.
- Services — salons, spas, travel agents, remittance, driving instructors, tradespeople, accountants.
- Community — associations, temples, language and dance classes.
Geographically we cover the whole of the UK, with the most depth where the community is largest: London, Farnborough, Aldershot and the rest of Rushmoor, plus Swindon, Hounslow, Reading, Ashford and Folkestone. If your town is thin on listings, it is because nobody has added them yet — not because we stopped at the M25.
FOR BUSINESS OWNERS
Getting listed takes about five minutes
The basic listing is free, permanently, and always will be. Send us your details and we build the page: name, category, town, phone, address, a map pin, your opening hours and a photo. Nothing to install, no account to manage.
The basic listing is free, and no business can pay to outrank another. If we later add a paid option for extra prominence, it will sit on top of the free listing — never as a condition of having one, and never for anyone already listed as a founding business.
- We never charge for inclusion. Paying moves you up the page; it does not buy you a place on it.
- We never sell your details. Your phone number is on your listing so customers can call you, and that is the end of it.
- We do not take a cut of your orders. Customers contact you directly. There is no commission and no platform in the middle.
List your business on Khaja Khoj
Free listings are genuinely free. Send us your details and we will build your page.
WHY IT MATTERS
These are mostly first-generation businesses
A large share of the Nepalese businesses in Britain were started by people who arrived within the last two decades — many of them Gurkha families who gained settlement rights in 2009, and their children. They were opened with family savings, often by people running them alongside another job, in towns chosen because the regiment had been there.
They are small, they compete against chains with marketing budgets, and most of them have no website. That is the gap this directory exists to close. Every listing added makes the next family’s search shorter, and sends trade to a business that was relying on being remembered.
We also write guides to Nepalese food and festivals in Britain, for people new to it and for anyone who wants somewhere to point a friend. We are not a review site and we are not trying to rank anyone against each other. We are a way of being found.
GET IN TOUCH
Tell us what is missing
Know a Nepalese business that should be here? Spotted a listing with the wrong phone number or opening hours? Want yours added, changed or removed? Message us and a person reads it — there is no ticket system.
We are especially glad to hear about businesses outside the obvious towns. Those are the ones hardest to find and the ones this is most useful for.
Send us a message
Suggest a business, correct a listing, or ask us anything about how Khaja Khoj works.
