Mumbai street-food starter pack

The essential Mumbai handheld: a hot potato fritter, soft pav, dry garlic chutney, and a fried green chilli if you are doing it properly.

Spiced mashed vegetables on a ripping-hot tava, finished with butter and scooped up with toasted pav.

Puffed rice, sev, chutneys, onion, and crunch assembled at the last second—the city snack that tastes like ten textures at once.

Butter, green chutney, potato, beetroot, cucumber, tomato, and masala pressed into a street-side sandwich that should be eaten immediately.

Crisp puris layered with potato, chutneys, onion, and a ridiculous amount of sev; compact, messy, sweet, hot, and tangy.

A fiery sprouted-bean curry under farsan, onion, coriander, and lemon, with pav ready to catch everything.

Sweet-spicy potato, chutneys, peanuts, and pomegranate packed into pav—a Kutch original that Mumbai has enthusiastically adopted.