The usual mistake is not ordering too little of the main thing. It is forgetting ice, mixers and water entirely — and those are what run out first, at about eleven o’clock, when nobody wants to go anywhere.
Rough quantities
Treat these as a starting point rather than a formula. They assume a night of four to five hours with people who are mostly drinking.
| For ten people | Roughly |
|---|---|
| Beer-only night | 30–40 bottles or cans |
| Spirits night | 2–3 bottles, plus mixers |
| Mixed | 20 beers and 2 bottles |
| Mixers | 6–8 litres. More than you think |
| Water | 8–10 litres. Much more than you think |
| Ice | Twice whatever you were about to order |
| Soft drinks for non-drinkers | Assume two people, minimum |
The four things people forget
Ice. Always. A Kathmandu evening will get through ice faster than any other item on the list, and it is the one thing you cannot improvise.
Water. Not as a courtesy — as the thing that decides how everybody feels tomorrow. A litre per person is not excessive.
Something for people who are not drinking. There will be at least one, and turning up with nothing for them is a small unkindness that gets remembered. We carry cold drinks and mixers as a category of their own.
Something to eat. We do not deliver food, but ordering some is the difference between a good night and a short one.
Ordering in one go beats topping up
One order at 10 PM is cheaper, faster and far less stressful than three orders at 10, 12 and 1. There is one delivery fee instead of three, and the midnight run is the busiest of the night.
If you genuinely do not know how many people are coming, order for the number you are confident about and message us when you know more — but order the ice and water for the optimistic number straight away.
If you have underestimated
Message. We run until 4 AM and a second run is normal. Just know that between 11 PM and 1 AM on a weekend the wait is longer than the quoted thirty minutes, so message the moment you can see it coming rather than when the last bottle is open.
Festival weekends
Dashain, Tihar and the big weekends are different, and they need planning — ordering around festivals covers it.