Correction (1 October 2026): an earlier version of this page was produced by a template, not by checking. It listed twelve “Indian” restaurants in Caulfield South that we could not find anywhere, all under postcode 3053, which belongs to Carlton, not Caulfield South (3162), along with invented seat counts, prices and dishes such as mushroom pasta and pumpkin risotto. It has been rewritten from scratch. Every venue below was confirmed at two independent sources, and every price was copied from the venue’s own menu or ordering page on 1 October 2026.
Caulfield South is drawn between four roads: Glen Huntly Road to the north, Booran Road to the east, North Road to the south and Kooyong Road to the west. It has no railway station, and it is not one of Melbourne’s Indian food strips. What it does have is two of those boundary roads, and along them, a handful of Indian kitchens worth knowing.
Community context: at the 2021 Census Caulfield South counted 12,328 people. After English, the languages most used at home were Russian (4.6 per cent) and Hebrew (4.4 per cent), and Judaism was the largest religious group, at 38.7 per cent. That is part of why one kitchen below stands out: a Gujarati menu further along North Road, in Ormond, whose own website says it blends family recipes with strictly kosher standards.
So this is an honest “in and around” guide. One restaurant sits inside the suburb, on North Road. The other five are over its edges: two more on North Road in Ormond, one on Glen Huntly Road in Elsternwick, and two in Glen Huntly. Between them they cover the tandoor, Gujarati street snacks, Hyderabadi biryani and late-night chole bhature, and every price below comes from the venue’s own menu, as published on 1 October 2026.
The quick picks
| If you’re after | Head to | Start with | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian inside Caulfield South | Bombay by Night | Khata aloo ghosht | $21.90 |
| Kosher standards, by its own account | Namaste Haifa | Dabeli | $9.00 |
| A dated takeaway menu | Bombay Club | Chicken butter cream | $24.50 |
| A cheap curry-and-rice feed | Dhaba 517 | Rice and butter chicken | $12.00 |
| Chole bhature until late | Tandoori Zaika | Chole bhature | $20.50 |
| Chaat and pav bhaji | Swagath Grand Glen Huntly | Pav bhaji | $10.95 |
Bombay by Night — 355 North Rd, Caulfield South VIC 3162
The one Indian restaurant we could verify inside Caulfield South’s boundaries, on its southern edge. Its own site says it has been in business for more than 29 years, lists it as closed on Mondays and open 6pm to 10pm Tuesday to Sunday, and its ordering page describes it as licensed and BYO for wine only, with corkage at $5 per person. The menu covers the classics, from tandoori chicken to rogan josh and vindaloo, with a short list of breads and garlic naan at $5.00.
On the menu: khata aloo ghosht ($21.90) is the dish to read twice. The menu describes it as a yoghurt-based lamb curry cooked with potatoes, “fragrant, not hot”, which makes it a gentle place to start. Chicken makanwalla, its name for butter chicken, is also $21.90, and kabuli pulao ($10.00) is rice with nuts and raisins, which the menu calls an Afghan speciality. For a night in, the takeaway deal for two is $51.90: two samosas, chicken makanwalla, rogan josh, saffron rice, naan and raita.
Start with: khata aloo ghosht, $21.90.
Namaste Haifa — 555A North Rd, Ormond VIC 3204
Further along North Road, in Ormond, this is the most unusual menu on the list. Its own site describes “blending secret family recipes with strictly Kosher standards”, and lists it as open 5pm to 11pm, Monday to Sunday. We have not checked any kosher certification, so if that matters to you, ask the kitchen before you order.
On the menu: alongside curries, street food and Indo-Chinese dishes, the menu has sections for Kathiyawadi food, from Gujarat’s Kathiawar peninsula, pure Gujarati dishes, Jain and Swaminarayan food, which traditionally leave out onion and garlic, and farali dishes for fasting days. Dabeli ($9.00) is a Kutchi street snack, a soft bun filled with spiced potato, peanuts and chutneys; the Bombay vada pav ($11.00) is Mumbai’s potato fritter in a bread roll; and pani puri ($10.00), listed as Calcutta puchka, is the crisp, hollow puri you fill with spiced water and eat in one bite. The Haifa Thali Special Kathiyawadi thali is $33.00, and a Jain tiffin is $23.00.
Start with: dabeli, $9.00.
Bombay Club — 564 North Rd, Ormond VIC 3204
Also on North Road in Ormond, Bombay Club says it has been “introducing guests to the colour and flavour of Indian culture since 1994”, and describes its food as North Indian. Usefully for anyone searching for takeaway, it publishes a separate takeaway menu as a PDF marked “PUBLISHED - August 2026”, and the prices here come from that menu. The dine-in list on its website prints higher prices for some of the same dishes.
On the menu: chicken butter cream ($24.50) is the house take on butter chicken: boneless tandoori chicken with tomato, finished with cashew nuts and cream. Dal makhani ($20.50) is black lentils and kidney beans cooked down with butter and cream; Goan fish ($27.50) leans on coconut milk, the way the coastal state’s curries do; and the chicken biryani is $19.50, with a plain naan at $4.00.
Start with: chicken butter cream, $24.50.
Dhaba 517 — 517 Glen Huntly Rd, Elsternwick VIC 3185
West along Glen Huntly Road in Elsternwick, Dhaba 517 calls itself a curry takeaway, and its online menu is built that way. A dhaba is the roadside eatery of North India’s highways, and the name fits a menu of street snacks, tandoor starters and curries. The value order is rice and butter chicken, a feed for $12.00.
On the menu: butter chicken on its own is $22.90, and chole bhature ($17.00) pairs a spicy chickpea curry with puffed, deep-fried bread. Haleem is traditionally a thick, slow-cooked stew of meat pounded with wheat and lentils, long associated with Hyderabad; the goat haleem here is $21.00. The single Hyderabadi chicken dum biryani is also $21.00: rice and chicken layered and sealed to finish cooking in their own steam.
Start with: rice and butter chicken, $12.00.
Tandoori Zaika — 1214 Glen Huntly Rd, Glen Huntly VIC 3163
East along Glen Huntly Road, in Glen Huntly itself, Tandoori Zaika lists late hours on its own ordering page: 5pm to midnight Monday to Thursday, and 5pm to 1am Friday to Sunday. The menu runs from Punjabi breads and thalis to Mumbai street snacks and Indo-Chinese dishes, alongside the curries.
On the menu: chole bhature ($20.50) comes as two puffed, fried breads with chana masala, raita and onion salad. The Amritsari kulcha thali ($26.50) is the bigger plate: two naan stuffed with potato, onion and spices, served with chana masala or dal makhani, a paneer dish, raita and onion salad. Paneer butter masala is $20.50, a seven-piece pani puri is $10.50, and garlic naan is $4.
Start with: chole bhature, $20.50.
Swagath Grand Glen Huntly — 111 Grange Rd, Glen Huntly VIC 3163
This is the Glen Huntly branch of Swagath Grand, on Grange Road; the chain’s own site lists eight Melbourne locations, from Werribee to Berwick. Its branch page lists noon to 11pm every day, and its ordering menu has sections for idly and vada, dosa and uthappam, the rice-and-lentil staples of South India, though only the soup and chaat sections loaded on the web, so those are the prices here. The ordering page also warns, in capitals, to double-check which location you are ordering from, which is worth heeding with eight branches.
On the menu: pav bhaji ($10.95) is a buttery, spiced mash of vegetables with soft toasted bread rolls, a Mumbai street-food classic. The pani puri ($9.95) here is filled with ragada, a spiced white-pea curry, served with tangy, spicy mint water, and papadi chaat ($8.95) layers crisp wafers with yoghurt and chutneys.
Start with: pav bhaji, $10.95.
Quick answers
Is there an Indian restaurant in Caulfield South itself?
Yes. Bombay by Night is at 355 North Rd, Caulfield South, on the suburb’s southern edge. Its own site lists it as closed on Mondays and open 6pm to 10pm Tuesday to Sunday, and its online menu has a takeaway deal for two at $51.90. It is the only Indian kitchen inside the suburb’s boundaries we could check against a current menu on 1 October 2026.
Where can I get Indian takeaway in Caulfield South?
Bombay by Night (355 North Rd) takes orders online, including a takeaway deal for two at $51.90. Further along North Road in Ormond, Bombay Club (564 North Rd) publishes a takeaway menu dated August 2026, with chicken biryani at $19.50. Dhaba 517 (517 Glen Huntly Rd, Elsternwick) calls itself a curry takeaway and lists rice and butter chicken at $12.00.
Is there a kosher Indian restaurant near Caulfield South?
Namaste Haifa, at 555A North Rd, Ormond, says on its own website that it blends family recipes “with strictly Kosher standards”. Its menu has Gujarati, Kathiyawadi and Jain sections, with dabeli at $9.00. We have not checked kosher certification, so ask the restaurant if you need it confirmed.
Where can I get pani puri or chaat near Caulfield South?
Swagath Grand Glen Huntly (111 Grange Rd) lists pani puri at $9.95 and papadi chaat at $8.95. Namaste Haifa (555A North Rd, Ormond) lists pani puri, as Calcutta puchka, at $10.00, and Tandoori Zaika (1214 Glen Huntly Rd, Glen Huntly) lists a seven-piece pani puri at $10.50.
Which Indian restaurant near Caulfield South is open late?
Tandoori Zaika, at 1214 Glen Huntly Rd, Glen Huntly, lists 5pm to midnight Monday to Thursday and 5pm to 1am Friday to Sunday on its own ordering site. Check before you go late; hours change.
How we checked
On 1 October 2026 we read each venue’s own website, online ordering page or published menu and copied every item and price exactly as printed. Dhaba 517’s prices come from the menu feed behind its own ordering site, Tandoori Zaika’s from the menu data in its own ordering page, Namaste Haifa’s from its ordering page, and Bombay Club’s from the takeaway menu PDF linked on its website. Swagath Grand’s prices are from the first screen of its ordering page, which is all that loads without the app. We confirmed each address at a second, independent source, the Everything Indian directory, and confirmed the postcodes against the Australian postcode list. Suburb boundaries and neighbours are from Wikipedia; population, language and religion figures are from the ABS 2021 Census QuickStats for Caulfield South.
We did not use delivery-app prices, star ratings or review counts. Online ordering prices can differ from dine-in prices, deals come and go, and some venues load only part of their menu on the web. The photos are illustrative, from Unsplash: they show the kind of dish, not the venue’s own food.
Seen something out of date? Email [email protected] with the page link and what has changed, and we will check it again.
Sources
- Bombay by Night: bombaybynight.com.au and its ordering page; address also at Everything Indian
- Namaste Haifa: namastehaifa.com.au and its ordering page; address also at Everything Indian, Ormond
- Bombay Club: bombayclub.com.au and its takeaway menu (PDF); address also at Everything Indian, Ormond
- Dhaba 517: dhaba517online.com.au; address also at Everything Indian, Elsternwick
- Tandoori Zaika: tandoorizaika.com.au ordering page; address also at Everything Indian, Glen Huntly
- Swagath Grand Glen Huntly: branch page and ordering page; address also at Everything Indian, Glen Huntly
- Caulfield South population, languages and religion: ABS 2021 Census QuickStats
- Caulfield South boundaries and neighbours: Wikipedia
