Correction (30 September 2026): an earlier version of this page listed five Thai restaurants that do not exist, with invented addresses, opening hours and prices. It has been rewritten from scratch. Every place below was checked against its own website and its own current menu, and the sources are listed at the end.
Craigieburn is a big suburb: 65,178 people at the 2021 census, 25 km north of the CBD, with Craigieburn Central (about 160 specialty stores since it opened in October 2013) as the main shopping precinct. You would expect a strip of Thai restaurants. What we found is one Thai restaurant in Craigieburn with a current menu we could read online, on Craigieburn Road, and it is a good one to have, because the menu runs well past pad thai and green curry into a full page of larb, nam tok and som tum. Postcode 3064 also covers Roxburgh Park, Mickleham, Kalkallo and Donnybrook, and none of them turned up a Thai restaurant with a menu we could check. So the nearest Thai kitchens after that are in Campbellfield and Epping, and both are in this guide with their suburbs named plainly.
Every price below is copied from the venue’s own menu or online ordering page on 30 September 2026. Menus move, so give the menu a squiz before you drive.
The quick picks
| If you’re after | Head to | Try | Menu says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thai in Craigieburn itself | I Spice Thai Restaurant | Larb | $17.90 |
| Crispy pork belly and basil | Little Narai of Epping | Pad kra pao moo grob | $23.90 |
| A slow curry, from 3pm | Ummah Thai & International Cuisine | Massaman curry, chicken | $20.90 |
I Spice Thai Restaurant — G05/06, 420-440 Craigieburn Rd, Craigieburn VIC 3064
The one Thai restaurant in Craigieburn whose menu we could read online. Its website lists dinner from 5pm to 9:30pm seven nights and lunch from 11am to 3:30pm Thursday to Sunday. The staples all sit at $17.90 on the online menu: pad thai, pad see ew (spelt “pad se ewe” here), pad kee mao and green curry, with tom yum soup at $10.90 and moo ping, four grilled pork skewers, at $12.90. The section worth reading twice is the salads: larb $17.90, nam tok $18.90, som tum Thai $16.90 and som tum pu plarar $17.90.
Decoder: larb is the minced-meat salad of Thailand’s north-east, dressed with lime, fish sauce, chilli and toasted rice powder; nam tok is the same dressing over sliced grilled beef. Som tum is green papaya salad, and the “pu plarar” version adds salted crab and fermented fish sauce, the funky, full-strength style. Sticky rice is the usual partner for all of them.
Try: larb, $17.90.
Little Narai of Epping — 61 Rufus St, Epping VIC 3076
Dinner only, 5pm to 10pm seven days, by its own website, which gives the address as 61 Rufus Street; the directories list the same phone number at Shop 4, 772 High Street, Epping. The curries are $17.90 (gang keow wan is the green, gang massaman the massaman), pad thai and pad see ew are $17.90, satay gai is $15.90 and tom yum soup is $9.90. The two dishes that lift this menu above the usual takeaway list are pad kra pao moo grob at $23.90 and hor mok pla at $23.90.
Decoder: pad kra pao is the holy-basil stir-fry, garlic and chilli in a wok with the meat of your choice, and “moo grob” means the meat is crispy pork belly. Hor mok is a fish curry custard, steamed until it sets, usually in a banana-leaf cup; it is soft where the stir-fries are loud, so it makes a good second dish to share.
Try: pad kra pao moo grob, $23.90.
Ummah Thai & International Cuisine — 544-546 Mahoneys Rd, Campbellfield VIC 3061
In Campbellfield. Its website lists pickup and delivery hours of 3pm to 9pm Monday to Thursday, 3pm to 10pm Friday and 3pm to 8:30pm on the weekend, with online orders sent through Oz Food Hunter. The ordering menu prices each dish by protein: pad thai and pad kee mao are $18.70 with chicken or vegetables, green curry and massaman are $20.90 with chicken, tom yum chicken is $18.70, satay chicken (four skewers) is $15.40 and som tum is $22.00. The Australian Good Food Guide files the restaurant under “Halal Options”; the menu itself does not say, so ask when you order.
Decoder: massaman is the mildest of the standard Thai curries, sweet and sour with peanuts and whole spices such as cinnamon and star anise, and this menu lists it “with Potato & Onion”. The menu describes its pad kee mao as thick rice noodle with vegetable, egg, fresh chilli and Thai basil, which is the classic build.
Try: massaman curry with chicken, $20.90.
Quick answers
Is there a Thai restaurant in Craigieburn?
Yes. I Spice Thai Restaurant is at G05/06, 420-440 Craigieburn Road. Its website lists dinner from 5pm to 9:30pm seven nights and lunch from 11am to 3:30pm Thursday to Sunday. Pad thai, pad see ew, pad kee mao and green curry are each $17.90 on its online menu, checked 30 September 2026.
Is there a Thai restaurant at Craigieburn Central?
Not on 30 September 2026. Craigieburn Central’s own store directory lists VHM Bros Vietnamese Restaurant, China Bar, Yassas and other food tenants but no Thai restaurant. Thai Splendid, which traded at shop C019, has an Uber Eats page that reads “Closed on Uber Eats as of 9 Apr 2021”, and thaisplendid.com.au now lists only a Rouse Hill restaurant in New South Wales.
Is there a halal Thai restaurant near Craigieburn?
Ummah Thai & International Cuisine at 544-546 Mahoneys Road, Campbellfield, is filed under “Halal Options” by the Australian Good Food Guide. Its own menu does not say halal, so ask when you order. Its website takes orders from 3pm.
What is the difference between pad see ew and pad kee mao?
Both are wide rice noodles from the wok. Pad see ew is the mild one: dark soy, egg and Chinese broccoli. Pad kee mao, the “drunken” noodle, is built on fresh chilli, garlic and Thai basil. At I Spice in Craigieburn both are $17.90; at Ummah Thai in Campbellfield both are $18.70 with chicken.
How we checked
On 30 September 2026 we read each venue’s own website for its address and opening hours, then copied each item and price from the venue’s own online ordering menu: the Cloudwaitress stores that I Spice and Little Narai link to from their websites, and the Oz Food Hunter menu that Ummah Thai links to from its website. We confirmed each address with at least one independent source on a different domain (Uber Eats, the Australian Good Food Guide, Yellow Pages), and checked each postcode against the Australian postcode list. Delivery-app prices run higher than the venues’ own menus and differ between apps, so we did not use them. The photos are illustrative, from Unsplash: they show the kind of dish, not the venue’s own food.
Two Craigieburn names were left out on purpose. Rich Chilli Thai, listed by Yellow Pages and Scoop at 2/1-9 Mareeba Way in the small shopping centre on Mareeba Way, may well be trading, but the website Yellow Pages links to now shows a “website no longer here” page, richchillithai.com.au does not resolve, and its Facebook page cannot be read without logging in, so we could not check a current menu. Ring before you go. Thai Splendid at Craigieburn Central is absent from the centre’s own store directory and marked closed on Uber Eats, as noted above.
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Sources
- I Spice Thai Restaurant website (address, hours): ispicethairestaurant.com.au
- I Spice Thai Restaurant online menu: ispicethairestaurant.localforyoucarts.com
- I Spice Thai Restaurant on Uber Eats (address): ubereats.com
- Little Narai of Epping website (address, hours): littlenaraiofepping.com.au
- Little Narai of Epping online menu: littlenaraiofepping.localforyoucarts.com
- Little Narai of Epping on the Australian Good Food Guide: agfg.com.au
- Ummah Thai & International Cuisine website (address, hours): ummahthaiandinternationalcuisine.com.au
- Ummah Thai ordering menu on Oz Food Hunter: ozfoodhunter.com.au
- Ummah Thai on the Australian Good Food Guide: agfg.com.au
- Craigieburn Central store directory: craigieburncentral.com.au
- Thai Splendid, Craigieburn Central, on Uber Eats: ubereats.com
- Rich Chilli Thai on Yellow Pages: yellowpages.com.au
- Craigieburn, Victoria (population, Craigieburn Central, Mareeba Way shops): en.wikipedia.org
