New restaurant to bring a taste of Nepal to Peterborough city centre
![The former Ba Shoh restaurant on Broadway, Peterborough, which is to become Gurkha Durbaar.](https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/webimg/legacy_oak_117162167.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65&enable=upscale)
![The former Ba Shoh restaurant on Broadway, Peterborough, which is to become Gurkha Durbaar.](/img/placeholder.png)
The Gurkha Durbaar Nepalese and Indian restaurant is set to bring something new to Peterborough when it opens in the historic former city library in Broadway next month.
A restaurant consultant, who has restaurants in Spalding and Grantham, has set about transforming the premises, last used as Ba Shoh, a multi-cuisine venue which closed at the end of 2017, two years after opening.
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Hide AdThe former Break for the Border nightclub and Imperial Bento restaurant underwent a lavish and costly refurbishment four years ago, but the new leaseholders will be adding some traditional Nepalese touches as authentic as the food set to feature in the menus.
A spokesman said Gurkha Durbaar (it means palace) would be “more than just a curry house” and is promising authentic food, chosen from the most popular dishes in Nepal, and not on any menus outside of London. There will still be a place on the menu for popular Indian dishes however.
“When we found this property was available I was inspired, I just fell in love with the place. It is a former library, a beautiful building and we felt it was just perfect for us,” said the spokesman.
“I am looking forward to bringing something new and exiting - the most popular, authentic Nepalese dishes and Indian food on a large scale - to Peterborough city centre.”
When it opens, expected to be in the second half of October, the 160-cover restaurant will create more than 20 jobs.