A horse
Guests tend to meet the horse before they meet the menu. It is the first thing people mention afterwards.
≈3 kmfrom Sauraha
≈10 kmfrom Bharatpur
Open airField & treeline
ParkingCars & bikes
Before you drive out
The four things people ring to ask
- OpenGive us a ring before you set off — we answer the same day. Owner to confirm — highest priority on the whole siteDays and times, all seven days. Replace this line with the real hours, and put the same hours on the Google listing, which currently has none at all. “Is it open?” is the question that decides whether a Bharatpur family drives out.
- BookingCall ahead if you can — and please do for barbecue, larger groups and camping. Owner to confirmCan small groups just turn up unannounced? How much notice do you actually need for BBQ, a big group, or camping? Say it exactly and this line stops generating phone calls you do not need.
- PayingOwner to confirm, then this row goes publicCash only, or is there a Fonepay / eSewa / Khalti QR at the counter? Worth knowing: an Indian visitor’s UPI app (PhonePe, Google Pay, Paytm) scans a Fonepay QR directly.
- ParkingOn site and off the road. Room for cars and a line of bikes.
- FoodDine-in and takeaway. Barbecue over coals in the evening.
- WhereManahara Chowk, Manahara‑08, Ratnanagar. About 3 km from Sauraha, about 10 km from Bharatpur.
- SeatingMostly outdoors — under the thatch, in the huts, and out on the field.
- Also hereCamping and bonfire nights, live music some evenings, and group bookings for functions.
मनहरा चोक, रत्ननगर‑०८, चितवन · खाना, बार्बेक्यु, क्याम्पिङ, बनफायर र लाइभ म्युजिक। समूह बुकिङ र कार्यक्रमका लागि फोन गर्नुहोस्।
The Place
Turn off the road
and the noise stops
A wooden cabin with the lights on. Thatched huts, tables under the trees, and open field running out to the treeline. There is a horse. There is a buffalo farm along the fence and water beyond it.
In the evening the string lights come on, someone picks up a guitar, and nobody is in a hurry to leave. That is the whole idea.
MEMC Wild Roots Farmhouse opened in 2026 on the edge of Manahara in Ratnanagar, Chitwan — about three kilometres from Sauraha and ten from Bharatpur. It is a farmhouse in the Nepali sense: somewhere to give an afternoon and an evening to, eat well, sit outside, and stay for the fire.
No park permit. No gate fee. No jeep to book.You are three kilometres short of the Sauraha gate and none of that applies here. Turn off the road and you have arrived.
Rated 4.7 by early guests
Very peaceful place and the environment is nature friendlyBishal, Google review
They have farmlife, a horse, surrounded by the buffalo farm and a lakeVictor, Google review
The Grounds
What is actually here
No brochure language. This is what you will find when you walk in.
Open field to the treeline
Grass, saplings and space, running out to standing forest. Buffalo farm along the fence, water beyond it.
The machan
A raised thatched platform, the way they are built across the Terai. Best seat on the property when the sun drops.
Fire and string lights
After dark the lights come on across the huts and the lane, and the fire gets going. This is when the place is at its best.
Somebody playing
A guitar under the thatch, unamplified, no stage. It happens because people bring instruments, not because it is scheduled.
Room to park
Off the road, room for cars and a line of bikes. Riding groups can pull in together without blocking anything.
Eat, Sit, Stay
Four reasons people come
Dine-in & takeaway
The kitchen
Food out to the tables under the thatch, or packed to take with you. Ask what is good today — it moves with what is around.
BBQ & fire
Barbecue nights
Grilled over coals, outside, while it gets dark. Best with a group and no plan for what happens after.
Camping
Stay the night
Camp on the field with the fire going. Chitwan sky, no streetlights, and the forest making its noises. Call ahead — space is limited.
Groups & events
Take the place
Birthdays, functions, office evenings, riding clubs. Tell us the headcount and the date and we will tell you what works.
Owner to supply — menu
Nothing here invents a dish or a price. Send the current chalkboard list with rough prices and a real menu section goes in, marked up so Google and AI answer engines can read it. Two rules: write every price as the final price (Nepali law forbids adding 13% VAT or a service charge on top of a displayed number), and keep it to dishes you always have.
Riders
The motorcycle on our badge
is not decoration
From Road To Roots. That is the whole name of the thing.
Chitwan sits in the middle of every good loop in this country — Kathmandu down through Mugling, across to Pokhara, out to Lumbini and back. MEMC is a few minutes off that line, with somewhere to put the bikes, food that does not take an hour, ground to pitch a tent on and a fire to sit around after.
Club runs, weekend groups, solo riders passing through. Give us a call before you set off and we will have the fire ready.
Groups & Events
Bring everyone
Birthdays, bratabandha, anniversaries, office evenings, club runs, farewell dinners. The field takes a crowd and the fire does the rest.
Tell us the date, the headcount and roughly what you want — food, BBQ, music, camping, or all of it — and we will come back with what we can do and what it costs.
- Good forFamily functions, pasni and bratabandha, birthdays, office evenings, riding clubs, farewells
- The spaceField, machan, huts and lane. Almost all of it is open air.
- How it worksGroup bookings are arranged with us directly, not taken as open picnic-ground hire. Call and we will talk it through.
- NoticeCall ahead. Barbecue and larger groups need warning.
Owner to supply — the eight answers that close a group booking
Every group organiser in Nepal asks the same questions on the first call. Answer these once and they go on the page permanently, and most of them stop needing a call at all:
- Maximum headcount you can seat and feed
- Minimum group size for a booking
- How much notice you need — normal group vs barbecue
- Can a group bring its own food or cook on site?
- Can they bring their own drinks?
- How many toilets, and where
- Can a bus get down the access road, and how many vehicles fit
- Veg and non-veg both available?
Owner to supply — one price anchor
Not a full menu, just a floor: “Meals from around NPR ___. Group day packages from around NPR ___ per head.” A range beats silence — a family deciding whether to drive 30 minutes from Bharatpur needs a number, and a range is not a legally displayed price so it does not trap you. For reference, Bharatpur halls publish NPR 300–900 per plate and the free public picnic grounds charge NPR 20–200 entry.
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The Place, Lately
Straight off the farm
Frames from what we have been posting. Nothing staged, nothing borrowed.
Amazing to hangout — refreshment and fresh airPrabin, Google review
Find Us
Manahara Chowk, Chitwan
Map © OpenStreetMap contributors
Getting here
- AddressManahara Chowk, Manahara‑08
Ratnanagar, Chitwan 44204, Nepal - From SaurahaAbout 3 km north. Straight run — call if you lose the turning.
- From BharatpurAbout 10 km south-east, past Ratnanagar.
- Coordinates27.60468, 84.47913 · Plus code JF3H+VM Ratnanagar
- ParkingOn site, off the road. Space for cars and a line of bikes.
- Phone+977 985‑5016826 · WhatsApp & Viber on the same number
मनहरा चोक, रत्ननगर‑०८, चितवन
खाना र खाजा · बार्बेक्यु · क्याम्पिङ · बनफायर · लाइभ म्युजिक। समूह बुकिङ र कार्यक्रमका लागि फोन गर्नुहोस्।
Owner to supply — opening hours
There are no opening hours anywhere online right now: not here, not on the Google listing. Google treats “open at the time of search” as a ranking factor, so an empty hours field quietly removes MEMC from every “open now near me” result. Send the days and times and they go in here, in the page’s structured data, and on Google.