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Clay Pots and Sikkim
There are two things worth coming to Restaurant Sikkim for: every dish served in a traditional clay pot, and a cup of tea from the Sikkim hills. Both are gifts of the earth, made slowly, the way the Himalayas intended.
Cooked and served in clay
We serve our food the old way, in traditional clay pots. Earthenware has always had a place in the Himalayan kitchen, the way the handi has across India. As it cooks, the clay breathes, holding in moisture and warmth so flavours deepen and the aroma settles gently into every bite.
100% natural, 100% handmade
Each of our clay pots is made of natural clay, unglazed and shaped entirely by hand. No coatings and no chemicals, just earth turned on a potter's wheel and fired in the traditional way, a craft passed down through generations. When your dish arrives in one, you are holding a little piece of that heritage.
Gentle, slow, and full of flavour
Clay cooking is unhurried. The heat is even, the pot needs little oil, and the food keeps an earthy character you simply cannot get from metal. In the Ayurvedic tradition, earthen pots are believed to be a gentle, nourishing way to cook, and we think you can taste the difference.
Tea grown in the clouds
Our tea comes from the Temi Tea Gardens, high in the Sikkim hills between 4,000 and 6,000 feet and first planted in 1969. Grown by organic methods in that cool mountain air, Sikkim tea is known for an exquisite taste and a unique aroma that set it apart, whether you take it as a warm black tea or a refreshing green.
Pure by the nature of the land
Sikkim was the first place in India to turn fully organic, and that same purity runs through everything we serve, from the fresh ingredients on your plate to the tea in your cup. Honest food and honest tea, the way the mountains intended.
Two reasons. One table.
Come and taste what earth, altitude and time can do. We will keep a clay pot warm for you, and the kettle on.
The Temi Tea Garden photograph is by Subhrajyoti07, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Clay-pot and dish photographs courtesy of Restaurant Sikkim, others by Shalini Shakthi, 143deepak and Sanket Sawale via Pexels.