The Yak and Yeti is a 5-star hotel in which capital city?

Hotel Yak and Yeti, is a luxury 5-star deluxe hotel in the heart of Kathmandu, Nepal. Modern day sophistication greets cultural heritage in the ample grounds of the 100-year-old palace and newly designed structure of the hotel.

Boris Nikolayevich Lisanevich, a.k.a. Boris Lissanevitch, (October 4, 1905 in Odesa, Russian Empire – October 20, 1985 in Kathmandu, Nepal) was a ballet dancer, a hotelier and a restaurateur.

In 1951 Lisanevich opened the country's first hotel, The Hotel Royal with the Yak and Yeti Bar, in a converted Rana Palace with Prince Basundhara as his business partner. Once the Royal Hotel closed in 1969, he opened the Yak and Yeti restaurant in Lal Durbar with another business partner, who went on to found and establish the Hotel Yak and Yeti. Boris ran the restaurant as "The Chimney Room" in the newly established hotel bearing the name that Boris invented.