The Mynt

San Jose, United States

3.9

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20 reviews

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Telephone:
+1 408-973-9673
Website:
www.themynt.com
Address:
5210 Prospect Rd, San Jose, CA, 95129
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
2.6 miWinchester
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Takes Reservations
Yes
Delivery
No
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Good For
Dinner
Parking
Private Lot
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Classy
Noise Level
Average
Alcohol
Beer & Wine Only
Outdoor Seating
No
Wi-Fi
No
Has TV
No
Waiter Service
Yes
Caters
Yes

Today

Today 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (San Jose) 17:17 Saturday, 21 June 2025

Business hours

Monday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Tuesday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Wednesday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Thursday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Friday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Sunday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Description

Specialties

The Mynt eclectic menu boasts of both traditional and classic favorites, as well as contemporary culinary delights. Acclaimed favorites include Garbanzo Mynt Salad, Bharwaan Shimla Mirch, The Mynt Regal Rack of Lamb, Sea Bass Tikka, and Chicken Xacuti, to name just a few.

The Mynt is the first Indian restaurant to offer a Heart Healthy menu items from start to finish. HEARTier Choice items are analyzed and adjusted by San Jose State University Department of Nutrition based on South Asian Heart Center’s HEARTier Choices Delicious Diet guidelines.

The Mynt also offers a wide selection of wines hand picked to complement our exhilarating food.

A vast collection of gourmet desserts such as our signature Orange Pista Kulfi, Pistachio Chocolate Brownie and Mango Yogurt Cheesecake provides a fitting end to a magical meal.

Today, The Mynt, with a loyal clientele, its personalized service and vibrant environment, is recognized as one of the finest Indian restaurants in the Bay Area.

History

Established in 2006.

The Mynt, Indian Restaurant was established in the year 2006, in San Jose at the corner of Saratoga Avenue and Prospect Road.

Founders Ram Ramgiri, Krishna Katikaneni, and Uday Gurram grew up as childhood friends in the south Indian city of Hyderabad. The city of Hyderabad, famous for its minarets and exquisite pearls, has a unique cultural and culinary heritage. Hyderabad’s dedication to fine dining has been unwavering for many centuries, and the people are famed for their sumptuous feasts. Growing up against this background — tasting and appreciating delicacies that are rich in flavor, texture, and aroma, the threesome was destined to be in the restaurant business.

Meet the Business Owner

Ram R.

Business Owner

Founding and managing partner, Ram Ramgiri was born and raised in the city of Hyderabad, India. He earned his M. S in mechanical engineering from Villanova University in Pennsylvania. Having grown up in Hyderabad, famous for its unique cultural and culinary heritage, Ram’s fondness for cooking and food comes as no surprise. During his 20 years of corporate experience, Ram always knew that he was destined for the restaurant business. His passion for food, friends, and people ultimately laid the foundation for «The Mynt»!

Ram applies his corporate and customer facing skills to redefine the Indian fine dining experience. He strongly believes that Indian food has been misrepresented and stereotyped by unimaginative Bay Area Indian restaurants as «big buffets», «curry», and «spicy». Authentic Indian food is distinguished by its sophisticated use of spices and cooking techniques. Every region of India has its own unique cuisine, and Ram’s goal is to showcase this diversity via «The Mynt».

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20 reviews of The Mynt

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Place rating: 3
San Francisco, CA
Not too bad — they could have put out some chai for what they charge.
Place rating: 5
Sunnyvale, CA
One of the best restaurants for north indian food! Not too oily and you can actually taste the spices! Quick service too!
Place rating: 2
Santa Clara, CA
We ordered carry out from here, and while the food tastes good, it was very expensive for what we received. For $ 35, we got an average sized bowl of butter chicken and and average size bowl of yellow curry chicken. No rice or naan is included with the main entrée. We won’t be ordering from The Mynt again.
Place rating: 5
Los Gatos, CA
This is my new favorite Indian restaurant. Amazing, complex flavors, not overly hot-​spicy, great variety in menu and lunch buffet. Excellent saag paneer, navrattan korma, benghan bartha, delicious lassi. The ambience is lovely: quiet, clean, elegant.
Place rating: 4
Saratoga, CA
Food: samosas, chicken tikka masala, aloo gobi, rice, plain naan.
I liked everything except the samosas and agree with other Unilocalers that they were small and the texture of the wrapper seemed hard and from frozen so I would not order those again.
I really liked the CTM and what made it different than other places was that the chicken seemed to have been cooked first with a nice char on it, then cooked it the sauce. It gave it another level of texture and flavor that I thought was elevated and will definitely be back to order this.
Ambiance: very nice and seemed on the same level as Amber India. Table cloths, candles, dark wood floors. They also had a lovely glassed off private room that looked very elegant and classy. Good for a small company dinner or party.
Place rating: 3
San Jose, CA
Ordered the chicken masala with rice and garlic naan. The garlic naan was lackluster and didn’t have enough flavor. The chicken was very tough, likely overcooked from sitting around in the sauce over heat too long. I know these types of dishes are probably prepared in bulk but they should prepare smaller batches. The flavor of the dish was great and the rice was amazing. For high price I expected far better. I have had better at a $ 10 buffet sadly. I doubt I return unless the prices drop drastically. I think my meal was somewhere around $ 25.
Place rating: 4
San Jose, CA
Really good lunch buffet!
Everything was fresh and tasty… also really like that the place was nice and bright inside unlike a lot of Indian places that seem to be very dark…
Only semi negative was the Naan .didn’t seem as fresh and wasn’t very warm.
Would definitely go back again for the lunch buffet.
Place rating: 5
San Luis Obispo, CA
I’m new to the area and have passed the place several times. I decided to try it at lunch because they have a buffet and you can try a variety of things to get a good idea of what their food is like. I’m so happy I tried this place. The service is prompt and polite. The food is amazing!!! Just the right amount of spice. I don’t like my stuff so spicy hot that I can’t taste the other flavors they achieved just the right balance. The naan was light and not to doughy. Even the chai tea with spiced perfectly I could still taste the tea it wasn’t overwhelmed by spices. Then to top it all off the chef was out at the buffet and I happen to mention how much I loved the little dessert gulab jamun? (sp) so he sent some out to me. Can’t wait to come back for dinner
Place rating: 4
Santa Clara, CA
Four star because their malai kofta
Rest was bland
I had amritsari fish
Saag paneer
Pesto naan
Papdi chaat
2⁄5
Place rating: 4
Santa Clara, CA
Mynt is one of those nice Indian places where food is mostly geared towards western palates. Spices are pretty balanced but sometimes leaning towards very mild level. That said they have got some fancy starters. Salmon tikka is yummy and so is amritsari fish. The biryanis are really to die for.
Over all the service is good and the place is worth several visits.
Place rating: 5
Cupertino, CA
When you’re looking for fragrant Indian food, look no further. Mynt, in Saratoga, serves delicious Indian dishes to make any mouth water. Their chicken and veggie dishes never disappoint. My favorite bread here is their assorted basket which comes with onion kulchas, aloo naan, and plain naan. The fluffy bread is exactly what you need to wipe the dal off your plate. Mynt now offers champagne brunch on the weekends!
Place rating: 4
Hillsboro, OR
This place has one of the best buffets in the Bay Area. It has a wide spread of food with variety of starters, main course dishers for both vegetarians and non Vegetarians. Desserts were amazing as well. Ambience is good as well. A lunch buffet comes around $ 17 which is decent as per the quality of food and ambience of the place.
Place rating: 3
Cupertino, CA
Very good food, but EVERYTHING takes forever. Like… forever. More naan.20 minutes. Dining hall was only half full. Forever.
Place rating: 5
Los Gatos, CA
Ever since all the Tandoori Oven’s closed down I really have had no idea where else to go for good Indian food. At least not close to my home… apparently this restaurant has been here for ages?!
My sisters suggested it for a family meal a few nights ago. We had a group of 7 so they sat us in the front room pretty much by ourselves. It was a little annoying how long it took them to finally bring us water and take our order. I think they forgot about us since we were separated from everyone else.
We got garlic naan, chicken tikka masala, butter chicken, awadhi biryani with chicken, shaam severa kofta. It was more than enough for all of us and we went home with leftovers.
Let me just say the food is so good that I can’t wait to go back. I’m going to take my mom to the lunch buffet even though it is overpriced so we can try a lot more different items!
Everything had a ton of flavor and the only thing I thought was lame was the biryani had whole chicken drumsticks which made it a bit hard to eat and scoop out of the serving bowl too.
We ended up ordering extra garlic naan — it was probably the best naan I’ve ever had and I’ve had my fair share of naan.
My clothes did smell like Indian food after but luckily I have a Swash machine and it got the smell out quick haha!
Place rating: 4
Cupertino, CA
«The Mynt » been here a couple of times & it is now one of our family favourite :) their «Awadhi Briyani» both veg & meat are very flavorful ! Our other favourites are., «Lasooni Saag Paneer », «Shaam Severa Kofta», «Rawalpindi Chole «& Assorted Bread Basket (Onion kulcha, alooparatha, plain naan)
My daughter loves their «Anar Dahi Murgh Makhmali Tikka»
For desserts try their «Narangi Pista Kulfi «(very unique & scrumptious)» & Gulab Jamun with Cardamom Ice Cream » ;)
Place rating: 2
Santa Clara, CA
I haven’t been back in a while, but I have to say, the quality and flavors of the dishes have changed, and not for the better. Used to be, one could order off the menu or choose the buffet on Sunday; now, the buffet is the only option, and it’s expensive ($ 16) In fact, I grabbed a menu before being seated and noticed that all of their prices have gone up.
The butter chicken is one of my favorites, but the chicken was dry. The goat curry had large chunks of really fatty goat, so I didn’t eat much of that. The naan was extremely bland, and the chicken biryani was dry and contained hardly any chicken. We were there early, so I was surprised that all of the dishes were also merely ‘warm.‘
The service is still great, and the complimentary mimosa was a nice touch, but the Mynt is no longer my go-​to place for awesome Indian food.
Place rating: 5
San Jose, CA
Really good indian place have been here twice during their buffet .it’s amazing everything tastes really good and very close to I have had back home. service was really good too the only thing I would want them to work on is to serve the food hot or slightly warmer especially buffet. warm food would taste 10x better but overall
It’s a great find .I’m vegan and my husband is not so we both get best of both worlds here :)
Place rating: 4
Santa Clara, CA
We had Friday night dinner at Mynt. It was overall good experience. The server was courteous and food was delicious. We ordered fish curry and goat biryani.
I am taking 1 star off because of following two things
1) when asked about how much tangy /​sour the fish curry is, as it includes tamarind, server said he is not sure. He did not bother to ask the chef.
2) goat biryani was very delicious but goat was very chewy, not properly cooked.
Place rating: 4
Santa Clara, CA
Loved the lunch buffet! Try to go during Mon– Thur when its a little cheaper and it will be definitely worth your money and stomach.
They had a great variety including some vegetarian dishes, but for some reason was quite addicted to their saag. Enjoyed their butter chicken, tandoori chicken, salads, sauces… almost everything was on point. I think the things I didn’t enjoy were just too new for my tastebuds. Naan also served with your buffet.
Service was superb, timely, and anticipated our needs (including water refills without asking!). Takes card, has a parking lot. Would definitely come back for delicious food.
Place rating: 3
Campbell, CA
Good lunch buffet with complimentary mimosas on the weekends.
Loved the naan; it was light, soft, and crispy. There was a nice spice level to the chicken curry and butter chicken and the saffron rice was yummy. We went early so the food looked fresh and we certainly had no big complaints.
Overall, the Mynt is pretty good. The service was very nice and our water glasses were never empty for long. For the price, the buffet had limited options but what they had was good. If I took anything away from my experience, it would be that I really like their naan.