Correction (1 October 2026): an earlier version of this page listed ten “Thai” restaurants in Camberwell with names, street addresses, seat counts and prices we could not verify, recommended dishes such as a charcuterie board, mushroom pasta and sourdough bread, and claimed every place had been tested in person. It has been rewritten. Every restaurant below was checked against its own website or ordering page and an independent listing on 1 October 2026, and every price was copied from the restaurant’s own menu.
Camberwell sits 10 km east of the CBD in the City of Boroondara, and its edges are roads: Burke Road on the west, Toorak Road on the south, Riversdale Road along most of the north. Two of the Thai kitchens below sit on those boundary roads, Rama Thai on Burke Road and Maruay Thai on Toorak Road. The other two are just over the line: Little Thai Princess further down Burke Road in Glen Iris, and Union Tree in Surrey Hills, which borders Camberwell to the north-east.
A Thai menu is easier to read once you know it is laid out by format, not by course. Soups, salads, curries, wok-fried dishes, noodles and rice each get a section, and on many menus you pick the dish first and the protein second, with prawns or seafood costing a little more. Four words get you most of the way. Pad means stir-fried, gaeng (often spelled gang or kaeng) is a curry, tom is a soup, and yum is a sharp, lime-dressed salad.
The quick picks
| If you’re after | Head to | Order this | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| A benchmark pad thai in Camberwell | Rama Thai | Pad thai | $19.50 |
| Fried snacks for the table | Maruay Thai | Prawn spring rolls (5) | $12.90 |
| A whole fish to share | Little Thai Princess | Three flavored barramundi | $36 |
| A cheaper lunch plate | Union Tree Thai | Pad thai chicken (lunch menu) | $17 |
Rama Thai — 495 Burke Road, Camberwell VIC 3124
Rama Thai describes itself on its own site as “a family-owned Thai restaurant” that has been “serving Melbourne for over twenty years”, and its ordering page reads like a classic Thai menu: entrées, soups, salads, curries, wok dishes, noodles and fried rice. Pad thai is $19.50: rice noodles stir-fried with egg, fried tofu, dried shrimp, chive, bean shoots and peanut, seasoned with tamarind, which is where the sweet-sour edge comes from. The crystal pad thai swaps in glass vermicelli at the same $19.50, tom yum soup is $12.50, and gang ped duck is $25.50.
Decoder: gang ped (red curry) is a coconut-milk curry built on dried red chilli paste; here the menu pairs duck fillet with pineapple and lychee, the classic way of setting sweet fruit against rich duck.
How to order: the restaurant’s own site lists dinner from 5pm every night and lunch on Fridays only, 12pm to 3pm.
Order this first: pad thai, $19.50. It is the dish the menu’s tamarind seasoning is built around, and a fair yardstick for any Thai kitchen.
Maruay Thai — 1218 Toorak Road, Camberwell VIC 3124
On Camberwell’s southern edge, Maruay’s own site sums itself up as “Thai food dine-in & take away in Camberwell”. The ordering menu linked from that site has its own house sections, “Crispy Maruay” and “BBQ Maruay”, ahead of the entrées. Prawn spring rolls are $12.90 for five, pad thai is $19.90, massaman curry is $20.90, and the duck red curry, roasted duck breast with lychee and pineapple, is $26.90. The one to read twice is the Maruay arancini, eight for $14.90, stuffed with chicken mince, kaffir lime, lemongrass and toasted ground rice.
Decoder: chicken mince with lemongrass, lime leaf and toasted rice powder is the flavour set of larb, the herb-heavy minced meat salad, here rolled into an Italian-style rice ball.
How to order: its own site lists lunch on Thursday and Friday, 11am to 2pm, and dinner every night from 4.30pm, with last orders at 8.30pm. The Australian Good Food Guide lists the same lunch days.
Order this first: Maruay arancini, $14.90, because it is the menu’s own idea rather than a standard.
Little Thai Princess — 285 Burke Road, Glen Iris VIC 3146
Further down Burke Road in Glen Iris, Little Thai Princess bills itself as “fine dining with a warm welcome”. Its own site says it is open seven nights and has limited parking behind the restaurant, with more at Gardiner train station off Carroll Crescent. The dine-in menu on that site prices the red duck curry, roasted duck with pineapple, cherry tomatoes, lychee and Thai basil, at $27, green curry chicken at $23, tom yum prawn at $12, and duck spring rolls at $14 for four. The Australian Good Food Guide lists its crispy whole barramundi as what it is best known for; on the menu that is the three flavored barramundi, $36.
Region: the menu calls its massaman beef curry ($27) “An authentic Southern Thai aromatic curry” and its yellow chicken curry ($23) southern Thai as well.
Decoder: “three flavored” is sam rod: a sweet, sour and spicy sauce poured over fish fried until crisp.
Order this first: three flavored barramundi, $36. A whole fish is made for the middle of the table.
Union Tree Thai Cafe and Cuisine — 149 Union Road, Surrey Hills VIC 3127
In Surrey Hills, Union Tree’s own ordering page is the clearest example of protein pricing on this list. Pad thai is $20.90 with vegetable, beef, chicken or pork and $22.90 with prawn, seafood or calamari, and the tom yum soup and green curry are both $20.90 with chicken. The lunch menu is the saving: pad thai chicken (lunch) is $17, and grilled chicken with steamed rice and dipping sauce is also $17. For something you will not see on every menu, son in law eggs are $16.90.
Decoder: son in law eggs are boiled eggs that are deep-fried, then dressed with tamarind sauce and chilli jam and topped with onion and dried shallot. The menu marks them vegetarian.
How to order: read across, not down. Each dish row has a price per protein column, and the page itself notes that pricing is subject to change without warning.
Order this first: son in law eggs, $16.90, then a curry to go with them.
Also on the map: Riversdale Road
Charntra Classic Thai Restaurant, 740 Riversdale Road, Camberwell, is listed by the Australian Good Food Guide and OpenStreetMap. On 1 October 2026 its own website returned a database error instead of a menu, so we could not check its dishes or prices and it is not in our picks. Ring ahead if it is on your list.
Quick answers
What is on the Rama Thai Camberwell menu?
Rama Thai, 495 Burke Road, has entrées, soups, salads, curries, wok dishes, noodles, grilled dishes and fried rice. On its ordering page on 1 October 2026, pad thai was $19.50, tom yum soup $12.50 and gang ped duck (red curry with duck, pineapple and lychee) $25.50. Its own site lists dinner nightly from 5pm and lunch on Fridays.
Is there a Thai restaurant on Riversdale Road in Camberwell?
Charntra Classic Thai Restaurant is listed at 740 Riversdale Road by the Australian Good Food Guide and OpenStreetMap. Its own website returned a database error on 1 October 2026, so we could not read a menu; ring ahead.
Where is the Thai restaurant on Burke Road in Glen Iris?
Little Thai Princess is at 285 Burke Road, Glen Iris. Its own site says it is open seven nights, has limited parking behind the restaurant and suggests Gardiner train station off Carroll Crescent for more. Its dine-in menu lists red duck curry at $27 and the three flavored barramundi (whole fish) at $36.
Which Thai restaurants near Camberwell do lunch?
Maruay Thai lists lunch on Thursday and Friday, 11am to 2pm; Rama Thai lists lunch on Fridays, 12pm to 3pm; and Union Tree in Surrey Hills has a lunch menu with pad thai chicken at $17. Check before you go, as hours change.
How much is pad thai around Camberwell?
On 1 October 2026: $19.50 at Rama Thai, $19.90 at Maruay Thai, and $20.90 at Union Tree with chicken ($22.90 with prawn), or $17 on Union Tree’s lunch menu. Prices were copied from each restaurant’s own menu or ordering page.
How we checked
On 1 October 2026 we read each restaurant’s own website and its menu or online ordering page, and copied every item and price exactly as listed. Rama Thai’s prices come from the menu data embedded in its NextOrder ordering page, which its own site links as “Order Now”. Maruay Thai’s come from the GloriaFood ordering menu its own site opens, and Union Tree’s from its own ordering site. Little Thai Princess prints prices on its own dine-in menu page. We confirmed each address at a second, independent source: the Australian Good Food Guide for all four. Camberwell’s boundaries, distance from the CBD and neighbouring suburbs are from Wikipedia. Where a menu prices a dish by protein, we give the price for the protein named. Online ordering prices can differ from dine-in prices, and menus change, so treat every price as a snapshot. The photos are illustrative, from Unsplash: they show the kind of dish, not each restaurant’s own food.
We left out restaurants whose menus we could only find on delivery apps or third-party menu sites, because we only take prices from a restaurant’s own menu.
Seen something out of date? Email [email protected] with the page link and what has changed, and we will check it again.
Sources
- Rama Thai: ramathai.com.au and its ordering page; address also at AGFG
- Maruay Thai: maruaythai.com.au and its ordering menu; address also at AGFG
- Little Thai Princess: littlethaiprincess.com and its dine-in menu; address also at AGFG
- Union Tree Thai Cafe and Cuisine: ordering menu; address also at AGFG
- Charntra Classic Thai Restaurant: AGFG, OpenStreetMap and charntrarestaurant.com.au (database error on 1 October 2026)
- Camberwell boundaries and neighbours: Wikipedia
