Tibetan Restaurant Coming!

Here's some unexpected good news: Asian Grocery, the bodega next to the Cortelyou Road Q Station, is opening a small Tibetan restaurant in the tiny space wedged between the shop and the tracks.

The grocery is locally famous (on this blog at least) for the excellent momo -- rich, flavorful Tibetan dumplings -- that they make fresh in their small kitchen, and which you can order to take out.

The man behind the counter today (who explained that the shop is Tibetan, not, as I'd written before, Nepalese) showed me the space, which has room for about five sets of two small tables and four chairs, and green walls. He said they have their paperwork in order, and they're planning to open next month. He said it would be called something along the lines of "Tibetan Restaurant," though I lobbied for "Momo Palace."

The door (below) is in the indentation next to the restaurant, where they currently have a mechanical horse and boxes of coconuts and bananas.

So much good local restaurant news these days.