About Moonlight Restaurant
Moonlight Restaurant operates from a rooftop on Mall Road in Upper Dharamshala, McLeod Ganj's reference rooftop dining destination with continuous mountain views over the Dhauladhar Range to the west and the Kangra Valley below. The restaurant serves a multi-cuisine menu mixing Indian classics, Tibetan signatures, and Continental options, with the rooftop setting being the format's primary appeal.
The menu is broad. Indian regional classics, chicken tikka (₹350), butter chicken (₹400), dal makhani (₹220), basmati rice (₹120), naan and roti breads. Tibetan section, momos, thukpa, butter tea (similar prices to Tibet Kitchen). Continental section, pasta options (₹350-450), pizza (₹400-550), Continental steaks (₹600-900). A meal for two with two mains, sides, and drinks runs ₹1,200-1,800.
The room is the rooftop. Forty open-air tables across the upper-floor terrace, with a partial cover for rain protection, and bay-window indoor seating for cold evenings. The mountain panorama is the architectural set-piece, sunset hour (6:30-7:30pm in summer) is the prime dining time. Walk-ins always work outside the April-June and September-November tourist peaks when sunset queues run twenty minutes.
What makes Moonlight the right McLeod Ganj broad-cuisine choice is the dual-quality combination, the food is properly cooked across all the cuisines, and the rooftop setting is genuinely one of Himachal's most-photographed dinner backdrops. For travellers spending several days in McLeod Ganj, this is the room to choose for variety and view rather than the strict-Tibetan or strict-Indian alternatives.
Best Occasion Fit
Birthdays, the rooftop sunset-and-mountain view setting is properly celebratory, and the multi-cuisine menu accommodates groups with varying dietary preferences. As a first date the rooftop terrace and the panoramic mountain backdrop are one of the Himalayan region's most romantic dining settings. Team dinners with visiting colleagues, the format absorbs six to twelve and the relaxed-cafe character gives the dinner space.
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