Santosh Misal Pav — Restaurant in Vasai-Virar

Many of them who have tasted Santosh Misal Pav in Sai Nagar, Vasai (W) will agree with me that the taste of Misal Pav which you get there do not find anywhere else, I have tasted Misal Pav at many places in Vasai & other places too, but the taste of Santosh Misal Pav is completely diffrent & delicious from the rest.

His Misal Pav is very old in Vasai, As far as I have been eating Misal couple from him many years back I do remember he used to make Misal Pav on a (Rekdi) just before his shop where the macchiwalis sit he & his wife they both used to really work hard to serve us this Delicious Authentic Misal Pav, & their hard work really paid off when their popularity of misal pav increased rapdily from kids to Old Age people everybody started liking it & on they other hand the shifting from Rekdi to his current Shop where it is now also happened with their tremoundous Hard work, Efforts, Maintaining the quality & taste of the Misal Pav the same as it was before.

When we go to his shop we need to climb the stairs which take us few minutes to reach inside to enjoy the authentic misal pav but Santosh with his hard work & Dedication took many years to climb those stairs & reach to that place right from the Rekdi on the Road to having a shop of his with his helpers working hard to serve the taste of their misal pav.

Very Happy to see the way he has progressed where 20 yrs back there was no proper place to sit & have to stand & eat misal Pav on his Rekdi today you get all the possible facilties at his shop with other dishes then misal pav which are tasty, delicious & Authentic too.

Hope Santosh Misal continues to serve for many more years and the numbers keeps on getting added to enjoy his...

Maharashtra, much like any other state in India, does have a rich culinary heritage. The symbols of its vegetarian cuisine have been Misal & Batata Wada (in the form of Wada Pav). There are a plethora of dishes but these are the most popular ones where vegetarian Maharashtrian cuisine is unknown.

My search for a decent plate of Misal has taken me places far & wide. This time it brought me to Santosh Misal Pav, located in the by-lanes of Vasai, a suburb of Mumbai.

This place is run by a family consisting of father, mother & son. They are very courteous & totally customer oriented. They constantly keep checking with each customer about their requirements to ensure that they have had their fill.

The menu is very simple & basic; Misal, Dahi Misal, Poha, Batata Wada, Idli & Buttermilk. While Poha, Idli & Batata Wada are available only for breakfast, Misal is available till closing hours i.e. 2.30 pm.

The Misal is made of moth beans (matki), farsan which includes chiwda, ghatia, peanuts, chopped onions & a spicy gravy. It is finally topped with fine & thin sev and served with 2 pieces of Pav. The gravy can be made more spicy, if required, by helping of a seperate spicy gravy.

The Misal was superb & tasted wonderful. It gave me a runny nose all throughout but I enjoyed eating it nonetheless in fact asked for an extra helping of the gravy. The Misal didn't give me any after effects of a spicy gravy like burning sensation or burps or the need have lots of water.

I had the buttermilk also which was really nice as well. They had added a crushed jeera masala which gave a nice flavour to it.

I am coming again whenever I'm in the...

I gave four stars to taste of Santosh Misal. They serves Poha, Poha misal, Dahi Misal, Mataki misal, buttermilk and many more, but this are popular food items amoung costumers. This place is not like a dinning hotel. This is not to big and not to small roadside eatery. But there were sitting arrengement to have meal properly. Many people regularly come for breakfast. All age groups enjoy their meal in Santosh Misal. If you ask what I don't like about it. Then their serving style. Prices are average, but they gives thicker misal with less onion, less kat (spicy water) even less spiced lentils. So as we start eating Misal untill one pao or paw finished our misal get dry. So we ask for kat (spicy water) so misal get watery then we ask for farsan and onion. They charged 5₹ for extras. Charges are nominal. But people must ask for extra they serves thicker Misal. Which I don't like. But I have to say Misal tastes delicious even I really like their poha. *From 2-3 weeks they are not serving onion. Even are not putting onion while cooking. As I'm Maharastriy I know in Misal masala onion is core ingredient. When I ask them when they will start using and serving onion, they said it will take...