Haltom City gas station restaurant does spicy, juicy momo dumplings

There’s a new restaurant in the mid-cities focused on a special kind of dumpling: Called MoMo Bros, it's serving traditional Nepalese street food, including the namesake momos, in Haltom City at the Cowboys gas station at 4050 Haltom Rd.
MoMo Bros comes from Pratik Shrestha, who worked for a decade in restaurant kitchens before opening MoMo Bros., his first restaurant, with the help of family members. Their goal: to bring Nepali flavor, "fresh, fast, and made with love."
Momos are the Nepali version of dumplings.
"We used to make momos at home and my friends liked them and started asking me to make some for them,” Shrestha says. Business was brisk enough that they decided to turn it into a business, and the gas station setting gave them an easy platform.
MoMo Bros has a small but vivid menu featuring momos, street food, and snacks.
They offer momos in five varieties:
- steamed
- fried
- jhol, submerged in a spicy tomato curry
- chili, in a spicy chili tomato sauce
- kothey, in a tomato chutney
Filling options include chicken, veggie (with cabbage, tofu, & paneer), or a combination of pork and chicken they call "porken."
Their best-seller is definitely the chili momos, which earn high praise from customers who claim they're the best chilli momo in DFW.
Other items are a fabulously quirky assortment that includes samosas, the delectable Indian fried pastry filled with spicy mashed potato and peas; and pakoras, crunchy spicy vegetable fritters.
There is chicken sausage served on a stick; and chatpate, an Indian and Nepali snack made with puffed rice, chickpeas, onion, peppers, and peas. They also do a few non-Nepali dishes like chicken wings and French fries which they toss in a spicy chili sauce and sprinkle with green onion.
For customers in the know, there's an off-menu bread that can only be ordered online.
“It’s not on the menu, but we also have bread chaat, which is like a samosa with curry potato filling in a bread that’s shaped into an egg shape,” Shrestha says. “I don’t think you can find it at many places.”
Prices are a bargain starting at $3.29 for fries to $9 for chicken chowmein noodles; momos range from $8 to $10.
Momos are definitely a growing trend, so much that there’s an annual festival celebrating the steamed dumplings which draws thousands of attendees. And there's a booming Nepalese population in the mid-cities.
“There's a lot of Nepalese people in the Haltom City area," he says.