KASAULI, India -- Perched on a cliffside along a winding mountain path, surrounded by pine trees and terraced kitchen gardens, Naar is far from your typical restaurant.

At Naar, a 20-seat experimental restaurant near the northern Indian village of Darwa, chef Prateek Sadhu, right, serves Himalayan-inflected dishes, including meat on pine skewers, pictured. (Source photos by Naar)
Resourceful preservation methods developed for life at high altitude