Mumbai Xpress

Mumbai grill sandwich, it was really good, huge portion, very filling and flavorful. The mixed platter of pakoras were fried fresh and tasted good. The aloo paratha was huge-​came out steaming hot as well. The tokri chaat looked interesting but lacked flavor, our favorite chaat is still at usha but the other snacks here are fresh and taste good as well.

Very good food.
Taste exactly like Mumbai street food.
Clean place. Not expensive atall… Good friendly staff. Nice service.
Keep it up!

It’s pathetic… They charge you like a good Indian restaurant ($ 10 for a thali and $ 7.99 for Choley Bathure) but their food will be so bad that you will feel like you have been cheated. On top of that, you’ll be eating in cheap plastic plates and they’ll not offer any water (only if you ask will they provide you water). The food was not all good and I felt like I ruined my Diwali after eating there. I would have spent the same money elsewhere with 1000 times better food and experience.

Sat down with a party of 6 and ordered a lot off of the menu. When we asked the owner for tap water he refused and stated tap water was only for take-​out patrons. We had no option other than buying bottles of water for our table.
I realize there is no legal requirement to provide tap water, but this practice seems petty. The food was good but wouldn’t return based on the service.

Great food! Fresh and delicious. I have been here few times now and everytime enjoyed yummy authentic dishes. Great vegetarian selection.

worst food ever plss don waste ur money and appetite it sucks big time. if you want to have sweet misl thisplace is for u

Tried this local place for the first time. I am not a vegetarian, but I really enjoyed my food. The samosa is HUGE… nice and crispy, with potato on the inside. But my lunch– the Mumbai Grilled Sandwich was super yummy.
Think «India meets a Grilled cheese sandwich.» It also has green pepper and onions in it. Very delicious and filling.
My only thing is, the restaurant is «Mumbai» but not «Xpress»… I wouldn’t really call this a fast food, or Xpress takeout place.
Though, I still appreciate that all the food is made to order, so at least you know it’s fresh, right?

Really great place to go love it. It’s my go to place for Indian street food that you can’t get here. I know the owners and they are ice people as well. The food is amazing but the prices have gone up a good amount since they opened. That’s why one less star. Overall great place and would recommend getting almost everything off the menu. My go to items are Mumbai Grilled Sandwich, Mumbai style Pizza, and Hakka Noodles. But do try everything and anything that suits you.

my girlfriend took me here for the first time. we got the pani puri (6 pc) as an app. That was ok, but everything else was absolutely amazing. Got the samosa chaat which was probably best I ever had. The onion rava masala dosa (no. 85) was amazing too esp for trying a dosa for the first time. ended our meal with some good ol masala chai and all in all it was about $ 24.
This place is awesome, definitely coming back!

If you like small portion, tasteless food then this is the place for you. Not my 1^st time coming here and each time it gets worse. Save yourself the time and money and go down the block to Usha food, it’s a million times better, trust me. If this place is your last resort then I would suggest go with the chole bhature which is somewhat okay. This will be my last time coming here. Eat at your own risk.

Beware of the owner. I was one of their first customers and was a loyal patron for years even after my family, friends, and myself have been ripped off. He never gives a receipt. He is not a restaurateur, he is a scam artist. He will add dishes to your bill and uses the cash register as his vehicle of theft. We have confronted him many times. He is a dirty rotten scoundrel. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I dare you to try to take this review off. I promise I will have all my family members and friends write their ONLY truthful reviews. He has no respect for his guests and will wither away until they close or his wife or kids take over management and let him retire. DO NOT PATRONIZE THIS CROOK.

This is one of the worst places we have been to for Indian food on hillside.
The grumpy old man at the counter chewing tobacco and serving our food was one of the most disgusting things I have even seen in the united states… eew !!!
They would not tell you about whats in the dishes, how spicy are they and irritatingly were told to hurry up if we planned on eating here.
Utterly discourteous and impaired in basic communication this place would be on my ABSOLUTELY NO GO LIST from now on.
Time seems to run very slow at this place and warmth and courtesy expected of the service industry are as distant as is Mumbai to New York.

I’ve been here twice so far, and both times, I thought the food was very good. The restaurant is family owned, and the owners seem to be working hard in the kitchen and waiting on the customers.
The majority of dishes are very good and taste very authentic. The Samosa Chaat is my favorite here and the Tokri Chaat is a close second. I also liked their Pav Bhaji.
I tried a lot of different dishes here, and there was only like one or two that I didn’t care for (like the samosas).
Their prices are also very reasonable.
If you like South Indian food, I definitely recommend you visit Mumbai Xpress.

This place is awesome !!! The restaurant is very casual but also very clean. The food is fresh and tasty.
We had the following:
1) tokri chaat — excellent ! This is chaat in a fried potato bowl
2) manchurian — a little dry but very flavorful
3) idly — don’t get this — it is hard to get idly right and theirs is dry
4) Mumbai sandwich — perfect !!! Crispy, fresh and just plan yummy :)
5) rabri falooda (ice cream with sweet noodles and condensed milk) — this was superb — also one of the few places that serves this
Definitely try Mumbai xpress

This place is totally like the street food you’d get in Bombay. It is casual, greasy, satisfying, and authentic. I freakin love Pav Bhaji and I haven’t really seen it often in the U.S., so I was very happy to see it here. This place is honestly designed with Indian patrons in mind and the intensely flavored food follows suit. If you are not Indian, please come here and see what the country has to offer outside of the typical American staples of Tandoori Chicken and whatever. Beware, the food can be spicy and authentically so.
Mumbai Xpress may be a worthwhile adventure to some, but for people from Mumbai it may feel like home.

A very casual place, although you can still sit down and be waited upon. The gentleman behind the counter was extremely kind.
For $ 30, the two of us were stuffed and had leftovers. The must order here are the dosas. They are made fresh to order. They are just perfectly light, crispy, and thin.
The grilled sandwich, which may seem strange, turned out to be spot on with Indian spices with some onion to cut through the dense bread and potato.
Everything we ordered was packed with flavor. One of the better Indian meals I’ve had, which is impressive considering the place is vegetarian.

I love Unilocal in general, but sometimes the reviews just don’t make sense to me. This is one of those places that look great on reviews, but I just can’t figure out why.
We used to be regulars some 5 to 7 years back, when they opened fresh. They were nice and polite for a few months, the place had a newness around it, the menu was different and innovative from the usual Indian fare, and they were adventurous enough to try out funky new fusion options — like Chinese Idli.
In a few months the newness faded away, the menu stopped being experimented upon, and we got tired of the rough attitudes of the staff in general.
We stopped going here for many years. We went back on a Saturday evening recently, because Unilocal keeps featuring this place as a great Dosa place in the Long Island area. Unfortunately, we came back with the same bitter experience as the last time we were there.
For a start, if you like dosas here, you probably haven’t been to too many dosa places. The Flushing Temple makes awesome dosas in their cafetaria, and they are cheaper. House of Dosas in Hicksville makes awesome dosas as well.
Next, the dinnerware. The super cheap thin paper plates are great for kids birthday parties, «prasad» in places of worship, casual on-​the-​road hot dogs, and such. When I pay some 9 bucks for a dosa, I prefer eating off a proper plate. At least a paper plate classified as «dinner plate». Same goes for the napkins — we know how cheap proper dinner paper napkins are.
Now, about the price of stuff. Yes, each plate classifies as a single $ as they are mostly under 10 bucks, but this is the equivalent of a tapas bar — or Indian street food — which means you are expected to eat some 3 – 4 plates each. For a family of 4 eating an average dinner, you are looking at a $ 100 spend.
Then there’s the water situation. I don’t get why a restaurant won’t have tap water. You have to buy your way out with water bottles, soda, and such. Again, fine if this was a roadside stall, but it is not — it is a sit down restaurant, with sit down restaurant prices, and plain old tap water is not a ridiculous expectation.
Finally, the attitudes just don’t appeal to us. Reminds us of Fawlty Towers. Maybe we get the cold shoulder because we are Indians? We walk in with 2 toddlers, and they look right through us like we were not there. They tried sitting us down at a long center table, before realizing that was a seat short — one of the previously seated patrons had stepped out on a bathroom break. Getting our order took ages, getting to know how much to pay took 20 minutes or more. After repeatedly asking for the check, they had us wait for 20 minutes after our table was cleared to finally let us know we pay at the counter. When we did pay, we did not receive a bill showing the detailed amounts — just a dollar figure that magically appeared at the register.
As for the food — hakka noodles had about a whole bottle of soy sauce in it, and was inedible. Pau Bhaji tasted of Parampara Masala instant spice mixes, but overall OK. The dosas looked great and appealed to the kids. The gobi paratha was nice. The tokri chat was OK, but the tokri smelt of stale oil. The falooda koolfi was well made, the best part of our dinner and a great way to end.
The pau bhaji and falooda managed to get it one star more than the one I was planning to leave.
In summary — a place to avoid. If you want dosas, head to House of Dosas or Chennai Dosa in Hicksville, or the cafetaria in the Flushing Hindu Temple grounds. For Mumbai street food, the authority remains as Dimple and Khasiyat on Oak Tree Road in Edison, NJ.

Insanely delicious, VERY casual vegetarian food.
Quite unlike the Indian food you’re used to if you’ve not had it before.
I’m not even sure what we ordered but it was all tasty and delicious.
Lovely young waitress used to western guests brought us good things.
No booze on offer but I didn’t care as the good was so exciting.

The food is amazing but the service is HORRIBLE! But its an Indian restaurant on Hillside, you really can’t expect anything more.
My friends and I had asked for dahi puri and the server even repeated that but brought out bhel puri then claimed that we messed up our order… She wasn’t ready to hear what we had to say, very bad attitude for a server!

If you try this place, please eat in unless you live very close to the restaurant. There food is the best when it is just cooked.
I enjoyed everything served here. Samosa Chaat, Samosa, Dosa, Grilled Sandwich, lassi and dessert etc. The waitress is VERY friendly. The pricing is very reasonable.
I have to go back and eat in again. (Actually I ordered to go, too, but it was much better when I ate in.)