Mountains Are Moving: StonedAge Brings The North Flavour Co. to Ziro

There's a road that begins high in the snowline — in Tosh, our village at 7,874 feet, where the Parvati Valley finally runs out of path. It's a long road. It crosses half a country. And this year, for the first time, it ends somewhere unexpected: in the green paddy terraces of Ziro, at the happiest music festival in India.

We're not just coming with our backpacks this time. We're bringing our kitchen.

The bamboo stage at Ziro, golden hour · Ziro Valley, Arunachal Pradesh

The Ziro Festival of Music is unlike anything else in the country. Held every year in the Ziro Valley of Arunachal Pradesh — a landscape of terraced rice fields, pine hills, and the Apatani people who have farmed it for generations — it's an open-air festival where the music matters, the crowd is kind, and the setting does half the work. People don't go to Ziro to be seen. They go to feel something. That's a place we understand.

This year it runs 24–27 September 2026 — four days of music under the Arunachal sky. And this year, for the first time, a little of the Parvati Valley will be there too.

The green paddy terraces of Ziro — a long way from our snowline

Introducing The North Flavour Co.

Find us at THE NORTH FLAVOUR CO. — Proudly Veg, by StonedAge Tosh. It's our travelling kitchen: the same wood-fire heart as the café at 7,874 feet, packed up and carried east. Tantalising food, honest local flavours, and vegetarian delights built for long festival days and cold mountain nights.

We've spent years cooking for travellers who arrive at the end of the road, tired and hungry, and leave warm. Ziro is the same instinct, a thousand kilometres away. If you've ever eaten at StonedAge in Tosh, you already know the language. If you haven't — this is your introduction.

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   Proudly Veg, Proudly Mountain

   Everything on the menu is vegetarian, and none of it apologises for it. Mountain cooking has always been about doing a lot with a little — warmth, spice, and ingredients that earn their place. Expect comfort food that tastes like it came down from an altitude.

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   Built for the Festival Day

   Long sets, longer conversations, and the kind of hunger that only open air and good music create. Our Ziro menu is made to be eaten standing up, shared, and returned to — three times a day if you must.

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   A Taste of Tosh, in Arunachal

   This is the first time the StonedAge kitchen has left the Parvati Valley. What we're bringing is a small piece of Tosh — its slowness, its warmth, its refusal to rush a good meal — plated for a valley on the other side of the Himalayas.

First light over the crowd at Ziro — the kind of morning we live for

StonedAge Stays — At Ziro

Food isn't the only thing we're carrying east. StonedAge Stays are available at Ziro for this edition of the festival — the same care we put into our stone cottages in Tosh, arranged for the days you'll spend in the valley. A proper bed, a warm base, and people who know how to look after travellers a long way from home.

Festival accommodation in Ziro fills fast, and this is our first edition here — so if you want to stay with us, reach out early. We'll take care of the rest.

Ziro after dark — art, light, and music until the valley glows

Why We're Doing This

StonedAge began as a stubborn idea — that you could build something real at the end of a road most people never finish, and that travellers would come for exactly that. You can read how it all started here. Ziro is the next line in that same story. The mountains, it turns out, are moving. We're just following them east.

If you're heading to the Ziro Festival of Music this year, come find The North Flavour Co. Bring an appetite. Stay for the mountains you didn't expect to find so far from ours.

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