A Family Bet on Flamingo Road
Kris and Bindi Parikh arrived at the restaurant business the way many immigrant entrepreneurs do — through a combination of family tradition, calculated risk, and a gap they could see that the market hadn’t filled. In 2008, the husband-wife team acquired a small Himalayan Tibetan restaurant on Flamingo Road in the Paradise corridor, just east of the Las Vegas Strip. They rebranded the space as Mint Indian Bistro and rebuilt the menu around recipes drawn from their own families: North Indian curries, South Indian dosas, and Indo-Chinese dishes that reflected the cross-pollination of Indian street food culture.
The original Flamingo Road location sits in one of the most restaurant-dense stretches of the valley, surrounded by national chains and casino dining rooms. Mint Indian Bistro carved out a following by offering a breadth of regional Indian cuisine that most Las Vegas restaurants at the time did not attempt. The menu spans tandoori, biryani, chaat, uttapam, and Hakka noodles — a range that would typically require visits to three or four separate restaurants in cities with established Indian dining scenes.
Four Locations, Two States
Mint Indian Bistro now operates three Las Vegas locations — the original Flamingo Road restaurant, a Spring Valley outpost near Durango and Flamingo, and a Henderson location on Eastern Avenue — plus a fourth in St. George, Utah. The flagship on Flamingo Road has accumulated more than 1,550 reviews on Yelp across sixteen years of continuous operation, making it one of the most-reviewed Indian restaurants in Nevada.
Mint Indian Bistro differentiates its locations through format as well as menu. Several sites feature self-serve wine and beer dispensed by the ounce, a model borrowed from taproom culture and uncommon in Indian restaurants. The Spring Valley location includes a sports bar section and banquet facilities that host private events, wedding receptions, and corporate gatherings — a deliberate play for the Las Vegas events market that most standalone Indian restaurants leave to hotel banquet departments.
Mint Indian Bistro in the Las Vegas Valley
Mint Indian Bistro has operated through the full arc of Las Vegas’s post-recession recovery, opening during the 2008 downturn and expanding steadily as the valley’s population grew past two million. The Flamingo Road location in particular serves as an anchor for the Paradise corridor’s diverse dining scene, drawing both tourists staying at nearby Strip hotels and east-side residents who treat it as a neighborhood staple. Kris and Bindi Parikh have built Mint Indian Bistro into one of the longest-operating Indian restaurant brands in Southern Nevada, with a presence that now extends beyond state lines.
- Owners
- Kris Parikh, Bindi Parikh
- Founded
- 2008
- Locations
- Flamingo Road (Paradise), Durango/Spring Valley, Eastern Avenue (Henderson), St. George, UT
- Phone
- (702) 894-9334
- Website
- mintbistro.com