Chai Pani Asheville

Name: Chai Pani Asheville
Address: 32 Banks Avenue, Asheville, NC, 28801, US
Telephone: 828-254-4003

Indian street food

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32 Banks Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
828-254-4003
Last verified: August 2026
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Chaat and Small Plates

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Kale Pakora Chaat
Kale in curried chickpea batter with green chutney and sweet yogurt
$13.99
Okra Fries
Julienned okra with salt, seasoning, and lime
$11.99
Disco Bhel
Poori, puffed rice, boondi, corn poha, sev, onion, cilantro, peanuts, chutneys, and pomegranate
$10.99
Aloo Tikki Chaat
Potato fritters on cholle with chutneys, yogurt, and sev
$12.99
Corn Bhel
$12.99
Chili Chicken
Battered chicken with onions, peppers, curry leaves, and ginger-chili soy sauce
$13.99
Bhel Puri
- Vegetarian
Puffed rice, flour crisps (puris), crunchy chickpea noodles, cilantro and onions tossed with tamarind and green chutneys
$7.99

Chaat (Street Snacks)

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Aloo Tiki Chaat
Crispy Indian potato fritters (two) served on spiced garbanzo bean stew topped with tamarind and green chutneys, sweetened yogurt and crunchy chickpea noodles (sev)
$9.99
Bhel Puri
Tangy, crunchy, spicy Indian street food classic with puffed rice, flour crisps (puris), crunchy chickpea noodles, cilantro and onions tossed with tamarind and green chutneys
$7.99
Kale Pakora Chaat
$12.64
Disco Bhel
- Vegetarian
Poori, puffed rice, boondi, corn poha, sev, onion, cilantro, peanuts, chutneys, and pomegranate
$10.99
Aloo Tikki Chaat
- Vegetarian
Potato fritters on cholle with chutneys, yogurt, and sev
$12.99
Corn Bhel
- Vegetarian
$12.99

Menu items and prices are approximate and may have changed — call the restaurant to confirm.

Dishes to know on this menu

Chaat: The tangy, crunchy, sweet-sour-spicy family of Indian street snacks: crisp bases (papdi wafers, puffed rice for bhel, potato patties for aloo tikki chaat) piled with chickpeas, yogurt, tamarind and mint chutneys, chaat masala, onion and sev (crunchy chickpea-flour threads). Meant to be eaten immediately, before it goes soft. On this menu as: Chaat and Small Plates · Kale Pakora Chaat · Disco Bhel.
Aloo, gobi, bhindi, baingan, matar: The vegetable vocabulary of a North Indian menu: aloo is potato, gobi cauliflower, bhindi okra, baingan eggplant (bharta is roasted and mashed), matar peas, jeera cumin. Malai kofta are dumplings of paneer and potato in a creamy gravy. "Aloo gobi" is potato and cauliflower; "matar paneer" peas and paneer, and so on. The name is the recipe. On this menu as: Aloo Tikki Chaat · Aloo Tiki Chaat.
Roti, chapati & paratha: The unleavened whole-wheat family. Roti and chapati are thin and dry-griddled (tandoori roti is baked in the clay oven); paratha is layered with ghee and pan-fried, plain (lachha, spiralled) or stuffed with potato, cauliflower or paneer; rumali is the tissue-thin "handkerchief" bread. Puri and bhatura are fried and puff up hollow; bhatura is the large, leavened one served with chole. On this menu as: Bhel Puri.
Indo-Chinese: Manchurian & chilli chicken: The Chinese cooking of Kolkata's Hakka community as adapted to Indian tastes: battered cauliflower or chicken tossed in a garlicky, soy-and-chili "Manchurian" sauce, chilli chicken or paneer with green chili and peppers, Hakka noodles and "Schezwan" fried rice. A cuisine of its own, and a fixture of most Indian restaurants' appetizer pages. On this menu as: Chili Chicken.
Pakora & bhaji: Fritters of vegetables, paneer or chicken dipped in a chickpea-flour (besan) batter and deep-fried. Onion bhaji is the British-menu name for onion pakora. Mixed vegetable pakora is the rainy-day snack of the subcontinent, eaten with chai. On this menu as: Kale Pakora Chaat.
Paneer: Fresh, unaged cheese made by curdling hot milk with lemon or vinegar and pressing the curds into a firm block. It does not melt, so it can be grilled (tikka), fried, or simmered in gravies, and it is the standard vegetarian protein on North Indian menus. On this menu as: Desi Salad with Tandoori Paneer · Saag Paneer.

How these dishes compare

Tikkatypically $15 across 385 menus
Roti, chapati & parathatypically $4 across 343 menus
Butter chicken (murgh makhani)typically $16 across 336 menus
Saag & palaktypically $15.95 across 320 menus
Tandooritypically $16.95 across 315 menus
Pakora & bhajitypically $8 across 291 menus
Chaattypically $9 across 281 menus

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