Anyetsang Little Tibet Restaurant

I love all the little restaurants on 4^th street, but this is one of my favorites. I always order dumplings so haven’t tried the other deliciousness. The samosas have a nice curry flavor. The service was great and attentive. The only reason this isn’t a 5 is because of the beef satay. It is a bit tough. The cut of meat should be in smaller bites. So a little tough to eat, but the flavor was still yummy.

Most delicious yellow curry in town!

This is one of my favorite places in Bloomington. Love all kinds of dumplings. It’s a little greasy spooning but the food makes you forget.

I’ve read glowing reviews of this place and some restaurant listings place this as the best eatery in Bloomington, so I went with high hopes and left a bit disappointed.
The service was great and the people couldn’t have been nicer and we were well taken care of but we weren’t overly impressed with the food. This is a Tibetan/​Thai/​Indian restaurant and we started with an appetizer of samosa (crispy indian dumplings filled with curried potato, peas, onions, and cilantro).
I had the Murgi Curry with chicken and my wife the Temo Sha Tsel (stir-​fried vegetables in a garlic sauce served with jasmine rice).
Neither of us thought that the food was that flavorful, did it have spice, certainly, but beneath the spice the flavor was lacking. I’m not trying to beat up this restaurant because nothing was bad here, maybe I was too influenced by others. It was good food but forgettable.

What a great college town restaurant. The dumplings were fantastic. Get the Tibet food and skip the other stuff. The milk tea was a nice treat too.

Try the butter tea/​chai. Good dumplings, soup, and salad. If you’re considering dessert Id consider going somewhere else for your sweet tooth.

4^th street is the place to go in Btown, and I’ve been wanting to try Little Tibet for quite some time. Huge menu of Indian, Tibetan and Thai food, and a nice patio with a view. The dumplings were delicious.

I was in Bloomington for couple of days, so I randomly selected this restaurant. My husband was very happy with the food and so am I. We ordered only appetizers (temo, samosa and momos) plus Tibetan tea. It was very filling so we didn’t order any main course but next time if I go there I sure want to try their Thai menu.

Stopped for an early dinner on a Sunday based on Unilocal reviews. The location is a converted house and offers outdoor and indoor seating. Due to the early hour there were only two other table so we picked a table outside and reviewed the menu while our server got our waters. After bringing water she asked if we had any questions and let us know that all the mains come with soup and salad. My SO opted for a yellow curry a I selected the Himalayan stew. Our server returned with our salads (nothing special) the our lentil soup. I liked the soup, it had a nice flavor and was a good change of pace. Our mains arrived shortly after we finished our soups. My SO’s curry had an abundance of meat, vegetables, and came with enough rice for three people. He curry had a good flavor and the spice was not over powering. My stew was good, it was a spicy broth with stew meat, dumpling like noodles, and veggies. Overall I was expecting it to be a little thicker but enjoyed. The service was solid but our servers switched mid-​meal and there was no explanation of the hand off. I would go back but with so many interesting options in the area will try something else first.

This is the kind of restaurant with ethnic cuisine that you go on a first date or bring your family. The location, building, menu, and décor are conversation starters. Recommended is the curry!

I am in Bloomington for work and wanted to try an local place. I use Unilocal to guide my decisions but I never let it make them for me. I chose this place because I was in the mood for Thai and something light for dinner. The food was very flavorful. The Thai Tea was perfectly sweetened. The small garden salad was very light and refreshing as well as the lentil soup. Very cozy place with a nice staff. Highly recommend.

Tried the momo, shasha, and shogo dumplings. First time ever eating this type of food and I would only recommend the shasha dumplings. The inside of the place could use a bit of cleaning but the food was good.

THIS IS THE GREATEST PLACE EVER.
The «temo» aka delicious bread rolls with melted butter will make you die from happiness.
The dumplings are required. The Shogo are DELICIOUS because yum, mashed potatoes. And the momo not only sound adorable, but are also amazing! nomnom.
You get soup or salad with an entrée.
The lentil soup is not my favorite. It’s very different from mediterraenean lentil soups that I love. However, the dressing makes the salad amazing, so I rec that.
Plus, service is always friendly and the 4^th street restaurant houses are always great for a good environment to dine in.

Very good cute little place. I know they are known for their dumplings but I tried their Beef Pad Thai and it was very good, lots of chopped carrots, cabbage, and been sprouts, good flavors. Also the service was excellent. The pricing was good as well, would go back.

The quality can be hit or miss. Lately it’s been a miss. But I still love how unique the food is. You can’t find a lot of this stuff at other restaurants.
I usually order the yellow curry because it’s their specialty. Lately I haven’t been getting as many vegetables in the curry as what used to come with it. Disappointing. Spicy level 3 is perfect for people that like spice, but don’t want to cry during diner.
The Chura MoMos are always decent and made fresh. I love how fluffy the dumpling is. The salad and the soup are good too. Definitely give it a try.

Mo-​Mos were amazing. I seriously have found my new true love in this place. It was quiet and quaint in the best possible way. The Jasmine tea was so delicious. If you’re looking for a really different experience in btown, Anyetsang’s is your best bet.

I’ve never tried Tibetan food before, and at one point my hometown had TWO Tibetan restaurants downtown. But we’re not the most adventurous family, so I never ate there. On this trip home, after picking up Sissy and her boyfriend, we decided to grab lunch at Anyetsang’s Little Tibet. Located on our 4^th Street «restaurant row» of sorts, where a bunch of old houses became restaurants, it’s definitely not the kind of place you’d find in every city.
The menu has a lot of vegetarian and gluten-​free options. There are options labeled Thai, as well as some that resemble Indian cuisine. Tibet is landlocked by other nations, so that makes a lot of sense to me! To start, I chose the Temo, which are steamed Tibetan bread rolls served with melted butter. They tasted like eating dough, if that makes sense. It was very tasty, hot, and soft. I think I might have liked them with a little honey or cinnamon sugar too!
For my main dish, I ordered the Sha Balay, pan-​fried dough patties filled with seasoned ground beef and yellow onion. After the temo, the portions were so big I could only eat half of the delicious patties. I liked alternating dipping them in the hot sauce and the soy sauce. To me, they tasted kind of like pot stickers or dumplings. I took the rest home, as they would be great snacks later!
The service as a bit slow, and I was never brought the rice I requested, but that’s okay… I had way too much to eat anyways!
Overall, I’m glad I tried out the food at Little Tibet. It’s funny how I never gave Bloomington credit for its food scene until I left, and I’m only now just working my way through a number of them. Just one more hometown restaurant I’ve been able to cross off my wishlist.

Favorite restaurant in Bloomington. Get the momo and/​or their mind blowing yellow curry.
The waitstaff is always friendly and the chef often comes out to assure his customers are happy. I’ve been to LT on many occasions and have never had a bad customer service experience. (In the last 7 years, I’m sure I’ve been here at least a dozen times.)
Most entrees come with lentil soup and a salad with ginger dressing. 100% worth every penny. Save a little dressing for the soup. The flavors go together skippingly. Yes, I said skippingly.
I would give LT 5 stars if the building itself was slightly more upscale, it’s hardly anything to count against them, in fact it’s quite charming inside, just slightly outdated.
Regardless, if you’re in Bloomington and looking for the most unique and delicious food experience around, you should absolutely visit this restaurant.

Oh. Oh wow. Oh wowie wow wow. YUM. My family and I were here visiting the university campus and needed a place to eat. This seemed interesting. Boy am I glad we came here. (Although, all of the other restaurants on this street seem equally mouthwatering… we’re actually considering a mini-​vacation trip down here just to try out all the restaurants on the same street as Anyetsang’s. Pity we didn’t stay long enough for two meals or we could have had Turkish or Burmese.) Anyway, it was perfect. I’ve thought about it a while and after having several dreams about the mouthwatering morsels at Anyetsang’s, I’ve decided it’s perfect. We stuck to the traditionally Tibetan items on the menu, ignoring the Indian and Thai items, which in my opinion they probably don’t need. (I’m sure they’re good, but we came for something new to try.) We ordered three of the different little dumpling-​type mo-​mos. Excuse me please for forgetting their names, but we had the one with swiss cheese and onions, the one that seems to be slightly fried and has beef in it, and the more doughy one with chicken in it. And wow. Just, wow. They were VERY good. All three were good. If, no, WHEN, we return we will also need to try the steamed bread roll and some of the other mo-​mos. Such a gem. The feel of the restaurant was also really neat. Loved the decorations and stuff they had in there, and I love how it’s in a neat old house. YES! I LOVE IT.

I note at the outset that this restaurant has as much Indian and Thai food as Tibetan. This restaurant needs to decide whether it is Tibetan (as the sign says) or Thai or Indian. We ignored Thai/​Indian items, which looked like the same boring stuff we have in Chicago, and ordered samosa app, Tibetan chicken dumplings and Tibetan stew with tofu and noodles. The wife ordered the stew ⁴⁄₅ on the spice scale and it was spicy. I tried it and was happy to have the Tibetan tea.
The somosa was the best I have had. It was flaky and light. The dumplings were also delicious.
Unlike a certain other Bloomington Tibetan restaurant I been to in the past and that is now closed, service was prompt and friendly. We were expecting a three hour long ordeal, as happened at the other Tibetan restaurant, the time we spent there was reasonable. We were pleasantly surprised to leave not have to rush to Lotus Festival.