DESI EXPRESS

387 S 1st St, San Jose
(408) 564-7161

Recent Reviews

Jeevanchakra

The best and fresh tea I had taste also try chicken sandwich it’s amazing I am sure I come back

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Shailendra Garg

Great quality of food considering it caters to office lunch hour crowd.Vegetarian options: Great quality vegetarian food options.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Paneer Tikka Masala Sandwich

Dhana Srimanthini Tipirneni

Must try their chicken curry, it was amazing!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Dahi Papdi Chaat

Kanishka Seth

Overall this was a solid weeknight date spot. The dahi papri chaat is delish! Creamy, runny yogurt + super fresh chutneys + crisp papris. Other dishes to try include a paneer pesto puff and pav bhaji. Though you can get other really good pav bhaji in the Bay, this was also very good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Srinivasan Ayyangar

This is a hard to find location, it’s at the very end of market. The taste is very good. Pani Puri is amazing and so is Bhel. Also they have some of the fanciest desserts.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

sampada samaka

This place is inside the sofa market. We ordered bun maska, bun maska with jam, dahi sev puri, loaded Bombay sandwich Aloo tikki Sandwich and hot gulab jamun. Everything was super delicious especially I loved the dahi sev puri, it had perfect balance of flavors and texture was firm and not soggy at all.We also tried their elaichi and adrak chai unfortunately we did not quite like it.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Dahi Sev Puri, Bombay Grilled Sandwich

Reena Rajcoomar

I ordered the dahi sev puri chaat which was great. Also got an indian chai which was really bad, like seriously this just tasted like regular tea, do better guys. will go back for the chaat and to try other food options. don't waste your money on the chai.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Dahi Sev Puri

Luke Melikian

The combo plate came on a small plastic tray with small portion sizes. It looked like an elementary school cafeteria meal. You can tell it wasn’t made fresh. I only got 2 slices of chicken in the curry.I’ve spent the similar amounts at other Indian restaurants and had more and fresher food.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 1

NAGUBANDI NAGA LAKSHMI

I absolutely love ‘ Desi Express ‘. A must try for any chat lover!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Anant Furia

As most of the reviews has mentioned the location us little weird, but once we found it we don't have any complaints.The food was just amazing and people serving were very nice and friendly.We tried bun muska chai, dahi puri and bombay sandwich, gulab jamun dessert, everything was above our expectation.You must try bun muska and chai.Also, they made all of these item Jain, without onion/garlic/potatoes. And dessert was eggless.Will definitely visit again.Vegetarian options: Most of the itemsDietary restrictions: Jain foodNo onion/garlic/potatoes

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Dahi Sev Puri, Bombay Grilled Sandwich

Mehakpreet kaur Mehakpreet kaur

The food was yummiest. Specially bombay sandwich, best in bayy❤️

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

yathindra k

Samosa chaat and Dahi papdi chaat are great.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Samosa Chaat

Steven Sullivan

There is more meat on a single chicken thigh than I received for $13.Rice is $3.50 more.Nothing is fresh, just microwaved.I know downtown is expensive, but how much are they really saving on chicken meat and dishwashing?

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 2

Sindhu BM

We tried Grilled Bombay Sandwich, 5 flavoured pani puri, sprouts bhel and papdi chaat. We especially loved the sandwich, papdi chaat and pani puri. Really good and bold flavours.The lady who makes your food is really sweet too and took our order even though we went 5 mins before they were closing.Would highly recommend for authentic chaats and sandwiches.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bombay Grilled Sandwich

Jaimeen Mehta

Desi Express was in a weird location first of all, inside a building then sharing the space with other restaurants. A little hard to find for the first time. Then food was good especially the bombay sandwich and the unique guava flavor pani puri which is quite rare in US. The quality was also excellent and if you are fan of sandwichs, chatt. It is worth visiting.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bhel Puri, Bombay Grilled Sandwich

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