13 restaurants · updated November 2026

The Best Indian Restaurants in Melbourne

Melbourne may have the strongest Indian dining scene in Australia. Fitzroy and the inner north are full of modern restaurants and bars, the CBD has the old guard and a few hatted rooms, and the western suburbs around Footscray cook some of the best curry in the country.

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Fine dining 4 Inner north 5 South and west 4

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Atta
Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat (four years running)
Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia
A striking room with some of the most creative Indian cooking in the country.
Contemporary Indian tasting dishes
Details, rating and dishes MapSources: broadsheet.com.au, opentable.de
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Tonka
The Age Good Food Guide hat
Melbourne CBD, Melbourne, Australia
Adam D'Sylva's upmarket take on Indian food, with European touches.
Modern Indian share plates
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Enter via Laundry
Carlton North, Melbourne, Australia
A tiny supper club serving one banquet a night to about twenty guests.
Regional banquet
Details, rating and dishes MapSources: broadsheet.com.au
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Kolkata Cricket Club
Southbank, Melbourne, Australia
A white-tablecloth dining room with a friendly front bar.
Puffed tandoor naan
Details, rating and dishes MapSources: broadsheet.com.au

Inner north

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Masti
Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia
Playful, flashy and very good, with turmeric and mango cocktails.
Honey-chilli cauliflowerFig and pomegranate koftaButter chicken
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Horn Please
Fitzroy North, Melbourne, Australia
One of Jessi Singh's restaurants, famous for its Sunday night buffet.
Sunday buffet
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Bhang
Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
A warehouse-style room for Indian street food and drinks.
Street food platesCocktails
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Curry Cafe
Northcote, Melbourne, Australia
A dependable neighbourhood curry house.
Lamb pasandaPaneer makhaniMango lassi
Details, rating and dishes MapSources: broadsheet.com.au
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Daughter In Law
Melbourne CBD, Melbourne, Australia
Jessi Singh's pan-Indian restaurant, cheeky and loud.
Sweet and sour cauliflowerThali
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South and west

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Babu Ji
St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia
Curries well beyond the classics, from the team that went on to New York.
Curry and rice
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Aangan
West Footscray, Melbourne, Australia
The name most people give when asked for the best curry in the west.
BiryaniCharcoal tandoor kebabsCurries
Details, rating and dishes MapSources: broadsheet.com.au
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Kahaani
Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
A family recipe for goat curry that goes back to before Partition.
Reshmi kebabFamily goat curry
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Mirchi
Kew, Melbourne, Australia
A Punjabi kitchen with very good Amritsari fish.
Amritsari fishPaneer tikkaGol gappa
Details, rating and dishes MapSources: broadsheet.com.au

How we chose

Picked from Broadsheet's Melbourne guide and OpenTable's Melbourne lists, which note Good Food Guide hats. Restaurants change, close and lose or gain stars, so check before you travel. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.

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