Came in at 11:30 at the same time another gentleman came in to pick up his take-out order. Apparently, they didn't prepare the order in time for this customer and the guy at the counter didn't say or anything to make things right. THe customer ahead of me cancelled and walked out. I can see why so many people have remarked that customer service is one of Chaat House' weakness. I ordered one of the Thali meals for $8 which for me counts as an expensive lunch: The first booth I went to had food scraps on the table which I recalled was from the employees who were eating a few minutes before opening time. Strike two for bad service. I went to the next booth closer to the TV in the corner again the table needed to be cleaned! I sat down at the third table right by the door and waited for my meal and enjoyed scenes of Sharukh Khan spraying a bottle of champagne on his female costar. My meal: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/mVno-tQcDhqPogq5u0vHpQ?select=DL2qjx4uQmpGelyzpoEpNg#DL2qjx4uQmpGelyzpoEpNg Three of the curries were above average and only one was so-so. I'm not a Thali expert but this meal was not only tasty but the portions were generous. I hope the owner of Chaat House really takes note of the customer related reviews and explains to his staff that improved service means more revenue. read more

Chaat House Sunnyvale - One of the Thali meals around $8.00 alot of food. Very tasty! - Indian Near Me - Sunnyvale, California

Disappointed with the food. We ordered house thali, chole bhatura, and ragda pattice. Chola bhatura was ok, thali looked like some left over stale food. And ragada pattice was a joke with just one aaloo tikki for $8.50 ???? read more

incredible food, great hospitality, honestly my favorite place. i wish i could eat here every day

The thali is not bad at all- feels like homemade food- not very oily and greasy. Had the dahi vada, and the dahi sev puri and that was good as well- I don't expect any chaat here in the US to be outstanding- but this one did a decent job. read more

Place Small Chat Ok Not worth,, Go other place If u dont know other places,, yelp it but not this one Its not that food is bad,, it is ok,, read more

If you want to eat home style cooked food then come to this place. This is self-serve place where you order the food to get a token and sit on a table. They will come with your food and match it with your token. They have very fresh rotis and fresh parathas. They are a must try on every visit here. I have tried their thali, which comes with couple of veg curries, rice, dal, raita, pickle, and rotis. The thali food is just awesomely fresh and tastes like home cooked food. Their vada pav is ok. I would not suggest chaat items since they are mediocre. Their pav bhaji, chola bhatura, makke di roti and saag are just awesome. This is a pure veg restaurant so they will not serve any meat items. Ambience is ok and they usually play old hindi songs on their tv ;) Parking gets tight every once in a while. read more

Worst customer service! The waiter was so rude! They don't have a smile on their faces. Very bad customer service. I felt the tip I gave was not worth at all. I would rate 4/5 for the food. Maybe a pick up is better. Would never recommend to eat in. read more

This is NOT PROBABLY, this is THE worst place EVER TO SERVE..they know the best way to loot innocent people's money.. Honestly, we ordered gobi Manchurian- the gobis were not washed, and all they had added was uncooked gobis to tomato ketchup and charged 9$..who the ***k will charge so much for the quantity of a pea. Dahi batata sev puri--the ****ing curd was so sour and rotten and 6puris for 6 $...who the heck in the whole universe would do this!! Worst place.. Please I just request, anyone's thinking of going to this , read my review..save your goddamn money and spend it somewhere.. their food will make you throw it on their face and walk out..but we being decent , writing a review here..trust me..you have to trust me..don't go this place. read more

I've come here several times, the food is always tasty regardless of what is ordered - would rate it 4-4.5 stars. Only minor nitpicks I can make is that the vada pav isn't authentic, and sev puri is made using the hollow pani puri base like most other Bay area restaurants instead of the flat puris like in India. read more

Makke di roti and sarson ka Saag - 5/5; Batata vada - 3/5 (it is not Mumbai style, it's very North Indian) Sev Puri - 2/5 (dry filling, thick sev) read more

They are ok .. not great .. The North Indian dishes are just ok . Not superb or awesome read more

Had recently moved to the bay area and was missing home Indian food. Went on a Saturday noon for lunch and ordered a thali. I liked that the thali had hot rotis. Also ordered a chai which was very average. read more

Chaat House Sunnyvale - Indian Near Me - Sunnyvale, California

I came to chaat house a couple of times whenever I get home sick. I have not tried their chaats (which they're known for), rather I stick with the thaali's. It's a reasonable amount of food you get for $10, and closest to home cooked food!! Their kadhi is SO good, along with their daal and rajma. You also get desert along with a cup of chai. It's delicious!! Haven't had a bad experience by far. Bhel thaali is the best!! read more

Chaat House Sunnyvale - Indian Near Me - Sunnyvale, California

Good food. I particularly like their kadhi chawal. Even rajma is good. People rave about their paranthas but I haven't tried them as yet. Chass is also decent enough. Only thing is that if you go after 9:30, they will ask you to take food togo, as they dont' want to sit and serve you as they close at 10 pm. I would expect them to have a closing time of 9:30 int his case or clearly state this on their website or on yelp. read more

Yummy veggie food Quick service nice people Their food is so good many varities spcly meetha pan is so good read more

Is there a negative ratings on yelp. If yes this is the first place to get that. Not going to go there again. Had ordered Bhindi masala for Togo. How hard it is to make that ?? The bhendi was half cooked and tasteless. I came home saw that and had to cook it all by myself. What's the point guys just close down the shop and join some culinary classes. read more

I tried chaat and paani puri here , they were really tasty. Price were very reasonable compare to other places. Place is little small but nice and clean. I tried there Veg Thali and that were also tasty and with reasonable price. I will definitely go again and recommend to other people also. If u like to try some really good India street food taste then this is the place. read more

Good food. Chat papari is good. Nice parantha. Good place for take out and eating there also. Quick and time efficient. read more

If you want to eat wholesome, healthy and freshly made authentic Punjabi food this is the right place. I've been coming to this place over 12 years and same consistency of the food. My personal favorite it : makkaki roti and sarso da saag, Bharta paneer, muli paratha, bhindi and dal makhani. My daughter loves their freshly made curd. read more

This restaurant is our go to place for Indian food. They have good varieties of delicious chaats, paranthas, main course and desserts. Their food taste is very homely and the portions are good as well. You get points for food if you use PunchPie here. read more

There is a short black guy who works at the front, extremely rude, he laughs at you when you ask them to modify the items in the thali, and they joke in the back with the other stuff at the customers. They put up a lot of violent punjabi songs on the TV while people are having meals. Extremely rude service and people who work there, never going there again. read more

I got the House Thaali with Chhaas. It was a very mediocre meal. Nothing that I would go out of my way for. It was somewhat well priced though. For just $10, I was served with a small bowl of rice, kadi, dahi, paneer matter, rajma, and alloo bangan. These are very basically Indian household foods that were already picked for today's "thali special". Didn't make sense to pay for this meal at a restaurant when I could've just had my mom make it at home (probably better than at the restaurant). read more

Chaat House Sunnyvale - Indian Near Me - Sunnyvale, California

Best roti in Sunnyvale area. The food is generally tasty and highly recommneded. Check out their thali and methi-parathas.

This is one of the very old restaurants around. I normally eat here at least twice a week. Their chat and parata are nice. Yogurt is a must try. Their service is quick and taste is superior. Dahi batata sev puri and mooli parata are the best here. You will find this place healthy than most places . Definitely a safer bet when u are not in a mood to try new . read more

Establishment is pretty dirty. For being such an empty place , they are really slow as the guys in the front really don't know what they are doing . They tell you 5 min every ten minutes of waiting. This is worse than taking one step forward two steps back. read more

I have been eating and ordering from here for several years. The food was delicious and authentic. I recently did a pick up, the chef must have changed. There was so much red chilli in everything it was difficult to eat. read more

Best place forever. I read all the reviews, I don't know how people write down bad reviews. I try my self with my family, we love their food. We try there pani poori , dahi papdi chaat and House thali with chaas and poori bhaji..Everything is very delicious, we will come back again.. read more

Chaat House Sunnyvale - Indian Near Me - Sunnyvale, California

Good food and good service. I eat here on a regular basis. They never denied putting points on the PunchPie app. Their food is fresh and home made. Good for chaats/parathas. read more

Good place to have North Indian food! Mixed veggies, papad and rotis are very good! Price is reasonable and the place has a diner feeling. They also have daily special thali. Good value for money. read more

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Definitely nor a place for chaat. Dint try main course though. But a small clumpy place full of smoke from kitchen.. food 4/10 Hygiene 5/10 Ambience 2/10 Avoid it!! read more

Carnivores, this is a vegetarian only place but you might end up liking the food here depending on what you order. Some of it is good and some of it is bland. Also, all the food here is premade but the spice levels can be adjusted if you prefer your food to be only mildly spicy. My bff and I came here yesterday after we found out the place that we wanted to go to wasn't open yet. For those of you who don't know much about Indian food, look at the take out menu as the regular menu doesn't describe anything. The guys working here are helpful and will explain what is what to. This place is like a fast food type place. You order at the counter and get your order when it's ready. The food comes out fairly fast. I got the sampler platter for $7.50. It comes with about five different dishes in small portions along with some plain basmati rice, papdum, and plain naan bread. Raita (the Indian yogurt dish is included in this meal). Most of the other items on the menu are $5.95.I also got an order of samosas for us to share as well as one order of paneer paratha which is whole wheat bread stuffed with paneer cheese and spices. Don't get that as the bread is bland and to thin. The samosas were excellent though! I only liked half of the dishes in the sampler platter. One of them was the paneer dish with peas. It was very bland. The potato's and yellow curry was good though. My bff ordered the Bengan Bharta Paneer which is fresh eggplant cooked with onions, tomatoes, and spices. It looked so good that I asked her if I could taste it. OMG, it was the BEST Bengan Bharta that I've ever had in my life despite it being made less spicy at her request. I deducted a star since they had NO toilet paper in the restroom. Luckily, I had some in my purse. They didn't even have toilet seat covers or paper towels! I told my friend about that and handed her a bunch of napkins from the table. This place is best for takeout. read more

Chat house disappoints on multiple fronts. Bad food, Worse management and slow service! Special Note : The billing guy is exceptionally rude especially if you are Indian! read more

I will never return. Skip this unsavory restaurant with the rude nasty mean owner / manager who makes the restaurant uncomfortable and the food forgettable. One star for the cranky rude old man taking my order by his poor behavior and his rude treatment of customers and his restaurant staff. The restaurant is On ElCamino. North side of street. You order at the counter then sit down and eventually the food arrives. The old man was impatient with me because I asked him one question on the food so by question 2 he ignored me and took the order of the person behind me. I felt like a 2nd class citizen! I should have left then. And by other Yelp reviews the also commented on the rude man. Then he barked the food order to the staff in the kitchen as though they were inferior to him. I finally did order and he visibly seemed to disapprove of my order and then tried to upsell me but would NOT explain why. I don't know the weird dynamics about class or caste systems but it felt pretty weird to sit in the restaurant watching the old man treat the kitchen guys and busboys poorly. This old guy is full of anger and rage. I felt entirely uncomfortable dining as this went on. The other customers seemed immune to it. In addition the place seemed dirty. The old gross dirty silk plants. The place had an uneasiness to it thanks to the rude owner so the food didn't even taste good. It was forgettable and so is this food establishment Skip this Chaat House and instead try Closest : Chaat place near Michaels at El Camino and Pastoria near Michael's and the DimSum and Pho restaurants. Or Chaat House on El Camino but on other side of H-85 left side across street from BMW read more

Wish could have given 0 star. Worst sev puri and chola. Chola was like tomato paste. Horrible.

My half Japanese son recently announced that he prefers Indian food over Japanese food. I should have made the connection when he chose Passage to India as his b'day dinner location. He says he still likes rice and potatoes (reflective of his heritage), but prefers them in other cuisines. Which reminds me of a failed quest from many, many years ago. I started an Indian cuisine database because I was determined to eat at every Indian restaurant on the Peninsula and keep details on the food/prices,etc. With the kid's pronouncement, I was tempted to start up the database again, but realized I have Yelp to record details now. So, a new quest for great Indian cuisine on the Peninsula begins. We went to Chaat House last night for vegetarian Indian fast food. The ambiance is cafe-like, family oriented, comfortable, and noisy with Bollywood movies playing on tvs mounted at the front corners of the dining area. All the people in the restaurant were Indian which I considered a good sign. The prices were very reasonable, but the menu posted on the wall like in other fast food joints and printed on regular menus does not have descriptions. HINT: If you need descriptions, ask to see the take out menu. There is a brief description with each food item. We ordered the rice, roti, poori, Chana Masala, Palak Paneer, Aloo Masala, and Baingan Bharta . The flavor of the rice was ok (had bits of cumin seed), but the texture was crumbly. Chana Masala-- average, the tomato base was somewhat bland, but the boy liked it. Palak Paneer- average, paneer was well made, but spinach was missing something. Aloo Masala-- our favorite. Spicy bites of potato. Warms the Irish soul. Baingan Bharta--just ok. Instead of a smokey flavor, it had a slightly burned flavor. Texture was perfect. Roti-- freshly made; hot and just flexible enough for picking up the aloo. Poori--oily, hot, fresh, and very tasty. Overall, an average experience for Indian fast food. read more

Oh my god... a little slice of heaven. I went in with an Indian friend who had never been here before but had heard good things. He ordered in Hindi and we selected only items from the left-hand menu, the chaat, Indian snacks. These are the foods you find sold on the streets in India, a phenomenon that is sadly absent in America. In any case, we stuck to the chaat because one can find mutter paneer at any old Indian restaurant. I can't tell you what we ate, but we ordered a lot of them at less than $4 each, and every single one of them was great. One was something I bought on the street in Calcutta, served in a cone made of notebook paper. Here it was on a plastic plate, and even tastier. So go on, even you white folks, just pick a few things off the left-hand menu, order a delicious masala tea (chai) and you'll be glad you did. read more

After driving up and down the street looking for Paradise Chaat, we decided to come here instead because their bright neon sign is just so nice and visible from the street. The atmosphere was McDonald's-esque...but I assumed that would translate into low low prices. Now...my husband is a great lover of papri chaat. I have had papri chaat throughout the great state of California, in Singapore, and in India. I consider myself something of a papri chaat expert at this point. So...we stopped in for a snack and got two orders of papri chaat (1.5 for him, 0.5 for Amy). It was about 8 or 9 dollars (I don't remember the exact price)...which is far from "break the bank" expensive, but it's definitely higher than your average papri chaat market value. The food itself was ok. It was just missing something. It wasn't that it wasn't good exactly...it was just so impressively unremarkable. Plus...if it hadn't been for my unfortunate dining experience at dollar curry house in Berkeley, I would say it was the least spicy Indian food I've ever had. read more

This place was hopping on Thursday night! There was a small line of folks waiting to order, tables were filled with couples and families getting a quick meal. Everything appeared to be cafeteria style, was inexpensive, and smelled and looked divine. Looking at the menu, I could only hazard guesses (as there were no English translations) at what all the menu options were by noting different words that I knew. Gobi means cauliflower...aloo means potatoes...dal is lentil...but the pace that night was a little too hectic to allow me time to go over the full menu with the man behind the counter and I wasn't in the mood for uncertainty. However, he did give me a to-go menu that I have given to a friend to translate. So, I will be back hungry and well prepared! read more

yummmyyy~~~ I had those buttcheek shaped inflated bread again with the bean dip. A bit mild spicy but so good. My friend said I need to just try something new but hey. I like butts. And sometimes you gotta stick to the familiar, right? (Especially when you have no idea what any of those words on the menu mean anyway). Also had their ice cream -- I guess it's rose + pistachio flavor. Quite tasty. Their mouth freshener is weird though. Gross. read more

Granted, i'm no expert in this type of food, so this review will be completely biased to me. Honestly, we tried going to Lee's sandwiches right next door but my cousin said he always wanted to try it. You know how when you walk by a certain restaurant, you look inside to see if that certain type of people are eating there to give you a slight indication of its legitimacy? Well we did that here and sure enough it was encouraging. We walked in to the counter to order. No greeting, no smile, more of a grunt. Menus were spread across the counter randomly. We tried to go through them for a good 3-4 minutes with no success. The ala carte items were phonetically spelled out with no description of the dish leaving me without any ability to order. As the line behind us grew, the two counter attendants finally addressed us and asked if we wanted dinner...at 6:30pm...They directed us to the "combo plates" (3 to be exact) and we ordered for take out. When we got home, everything was boxed in small containers - all the different sides and rice. While the food was definitely tasty, the hair in the rice was a quite unpleasant surprise. I quickly picked it out and continued eating. Perhaps it was just what I ordered, but I'm pretty sure I won't be going back to this place... Also, I'd recommend eating in vs taking it to go so they can set up the plate for you if you aren't familiar with what is what... read more