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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