San Jose eatery ranks No. 2 on Yelp’s list of top 25 Indian restaurants in the United States

Yelp has released its inaugural list of the nation’s best Indian restaurants, and a tiny vegetarian spot in San Jose is ranked No. 2.

Kadhai Kitchen, which started as a food truck making the rounds of South Bay festivals, is a three-table operation in the Berryessa district that focuses on vegetarian fare — mainly for takeout.

Here’s what the Yelp Top 25 announcement said: “This vegetarian-only takeout kitchen offers Maharashtrian and North Indian street food. The small menu specializes in pavs — a soft and puffy slider-sized biscuit made with refined Indian wheat flour. Their specialty is the Vada Pav, stuffed with a potato fritter and topped with spicy garlic-cilantro sauce. Yelpers say it rivals any in Mumbai itself.”

According to a review posted by Elite Yelper Shraddha N., “They even serve it with their own homemade buns, which is a total game-changer!

The nation’s top-ranked spot, according to this Yelp survey, is Mirchi Indian Cuisine in Newbury Park in Ventura County. Although California captured the top two spots on the list, a high number of the ranked Indian restaurants are located along the East Coast.