$6.99Mumbai Vada Pav
मुंबई वडा पाव
StopDadar
The original legend — crunchy batata vada, dry garlic chutney, fried green chilli, soft ladi pav. Pure Mumbai.
the street food of MumbaiSanta Clara · the food truck
vada pav, the Dadar way, Kolhapuri misal, rassa on the side, pav bhaji straight off the tawa, Amrutulya chai, always
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“Uff pune ki yaad dila di! … with the first bite .. Sukooon!”
Aditi K. · Sunnyvale
“Closest to home tea and vada pav I have found in the bay”
Rohan P. · Santa Clara
“It really captures the essence of a typical vada pav stall in Aamchi Mumbai”
Sneha M. · San Jose
You're at Santa Clara
Santa Clara the food truck
A food truck with a covered patio on El Camino Real. Eat here, take away, or get it delivered.
Santa Clara, CA 95051
- Dine-in
- Takeout
- Delivery
- Catering
- Monday
- 9am – 12am
- Tuesday
- 9am – 12:30pm, 5pm – 12am
- Wed – Sun
- 9am – 12am
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Mumbai food culture
A city that eats standing up
Chai in a glass, a vada in newspaper, lunch delivered by a system older than the telephone.
half a glass
Cutting chai
Twice the stops, twice the conversation.
after dark
Chowpatty
Chaat is the beach at dusk, eaten standing.
no hurry
The Irani café
Bentwood chairs, bun maska, a hundred years of mornings.
since 1890
The dabbawala
Two hundred thousand lunches a day, sorted by colour.
Warli · the tarpa dance · Maharashtra
The menu
Every dish has a station
Vada pav boarded at Dadar. Misal came down from Kolhapur. Pav bhaji fed the night shift at Chowpatty.
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$12.99Mumbai Sandwich
मुंबई सँडविच
StopFort
Triple-layered grilled sandwich with mint chutney, beet, cucumber and potato — the street-corner icon.
$12.99Mumbai Pav Bhaji
मुंबई पाव भाजी
StopChowpatty
The legend itself — buttery mixed-veg bhaji mashed on a giant tava, with griddled ladi pav. Mumbai on a plate.
$11.99Kolhapuri Misal
कोल्हापुरी मिसळ
StopKolhapur
Fiery Kolhapuri usal topped with farsan, onion and lemon, served with pav — not for the faint-hearted.
The art
Painted by Maharashtra
Four folk idioms from the state, each with something of ours in it.
Our story
From a chai flask to two kitchens
It started with a flask of chai and a folding table. Before there was a truck, before there were two kitchens, there was a Saturday morning, a batch of vada pav wrapped in newspaper, and the conviction that the Bay Area deserved the real thing.
Read the storySpice on Wheels
One mark, every tiffin
Stamped on the wrap, embossed on the dabba, printed on the glass. If it carries the diamond, it came from our tawa.
- On the dabba
- On the wrap
- On the glass
Catering
Mumbai, delivered like the dabbawalas
Since 1890 they have moved two hundred thousand home-cooked lunches a day across the city, almost never wrong. That is the standard we cater to.
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Taste before you book
Events of fifty or more get a tasting at the truck. Bring whoever signs off.
included
Live chaat counter
From a hundred guests, sev puri and bhel made in front of them, no extra charge.
start to finish
One call, one person
A single point of contact from quote to collection. Veg, vegan and Jain menus as standard.
Word of mouth
What Mumbai in the Bay says
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“Uff pune ki yaad dila di! … with the first bite .. Sukooon!”Aditi K.“Closest to home tea and vada pav I have found in the bay”Rohan P.“It really captures the essence of a typical vada pav stall in Aamchi Mumbai”Sneha M.“A rare find — one of the few places I've seen serving it in the typical Mumbai style”Kunal D.
“Uff pune ki yaad dila di! … with the first bite .. Sukooon!”
“Closest to home tea and vada pav I have found in the bay”
“It really captures the essence of a typical vada pav stall in Aamchi Mumbai”
“A rare find — one of the few places I've seen serving it in the typical Mumbai style”
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