Vada Pav appears as a signature dish in 1 India cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Vada pav · Mumbai
A deep-fried spiced potato fritter (vada) inside a soft white pav with red garlic chutney and a fried green chilli. The Mumbai mill-worker sandwich, invented 1966.
Ashok Vaidya ran a snack stall outside Dadar railway station selling poha, batata vada and tea to mill workers and commuters. In 1966 he slipped the deep-fried potato vada inside a pav with red garlic chutney and a fried green chilli. The format spread across the city within years; Mumbai now counts more than 20,000 vada pav stalls.
Where to eat in Mumbai:
- Ashok Vaidya Vada Pav
- Fort Vada Pav Stalls
- Sardar Pav Bhaji