Mithaas is a bustling stop for authentic Indian street food, serving up delightful samosas, chaats, and an array of sweets in a casual, quick-service setting.
"Mithaas has an extensive food and sweets menu that includes North and South Indian dishes, but we go for the Indo-Chinese, a type of cuisine that’s a mix of Chinese spices with traditional Indian ingredients. Our go-to order: the vegetable hakka noodles, chili paneer, and Schezwan fried rice. Head here for a sit-down lunch or casual dinner, and make sure to grab a few sweets from their mithai selection, like a beautiful golden box filled with motichoor ladoo, kesar peda, and malai chop." - nisha vedi pawar
"Mithaas is something of an anchor of Jersey City’s India Square: Smack dab in the middle, it has a large dining room that serves a broad range of South Indian vegetarian specialties, including all-in meals on metal trays called thalis, sometimes as specials associated with particular states or cities. It also offers eye-appealing sweets — halwas, barfis, and such — in pastel shades sometimes decorated with edible silver foil. Easily accessible on the PATH train." - Robert Sietsema
"Mithaas is a vegetarian Indian restaurant that concentrates on the food of the South, with the usual freshly prepared dosas, uttapams, and composed rice casseroles like bisi bele bath. Every day a thali is prepared, the name designating a composite meal of curries, chutneys, dals, and breads served on a round metal tray. But Mithaas doubles as a sweet shop, and glass cases are filled with milk-based treats in a rainbow of colors, some flaunting gold- or silver-leaf decorations." - Robert Sietsema
"Mithaas is one of the most popular vegetarian restaurants in Jersey City’s India Square neighborhood, thronged with families on the weekends. Regional thalis are available, with a particular region of the country often represented by specials. An added attraction is the expansive sweets counter, sometimes prepared on the spot at a portable station. There are now five locations in New York and New Jersey." - Robert Sietsema, Melissa McCart
"Mithaas has an extensive food and sweets menu that includes North and South Indian dishes, but we go for the Indo-Chinese, a type of cuisine that’s a mix of Chinese spices with traditional Indian ingredients. Our go-to order: the vegetable hakka noodles, chili paneer, and Schezwan fried rice. Head here for a sit-down lunch or casual dinner, and make sure to grab a few sweets from their mithai selection, like a beautiful golden box filled with motichoor ladoo, kesar peda, and malai chop." - Nisha Vedi Pawar
