Best Indian Snacks or hole in the wall

[airmax1973]

New to the DC area and looking for a place to fill in for our beloved Viks Chaat corner from Berkeley. Any place around here specialize in indian street food and snacks?

http://www.vikdistributors.com/chaat/chaatMenu.html

or

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article...

[julialimei]

Uduupi Palace in MD has a ton of snacks in the case when you first walk into the restaurant. Other than that, its real specialty is southern Indian.

[PollyG]

Shineys in Annandale is a complete hole in the wall that offers good chaat and other snacks, as well as a very extensive dessert selection.

http://dcist.com/2006/06/30/shineys_s...

[Steve]

Shineys is the best, I agree, though it is Pakistani, they will have very good chaat papri and hot pepper pokori.

The Heritage India Dupont, as recommended above, is a fancy restaurant with some mighty fine vittles including bhel puri, gobi massalam, and the patra. Impressive.

[Elyssa]

Heritage in Dupont Circle has an Indian street food menu as part of their regular menu but also for their Happy Hour special. I love the food there, especially the street food menu which is quite affordable. They call it the "Hawker Zone" menu:

http://www.heritageindiadupont.com/me...