The Broken Pestle was a Nepalese inn open for business around 1936.
Behind the scenes[]
The Broken Pestle was established for the Raiders of the Lost Ark section of Indiana Jones Cryptic, a game which adapts the original Indiana Jones trilogy. The game doesn't actually reference Nepal by name at all but presents a different version of the meeting between Indiana Jones upon his arrival in the country and his friend Lin-Su who points the archaeologist towards Patan, the location of The Raven, in the novelization of the film.
The novel has the meeting in Kathmandu but Indiana Jones Cryptic doesn't specify where it takes place and isn't clear on whether or not Jones has to leave the city to get to The Raven so the Broken Pestle could be in Kathmandu, Patan or somewhere else entirely.