Correction (1 October 2026): an earlier version of this page was produced by a template generator. It listed nine “Indian” venues in Malvern East, with dishes such as a charcuterie board and mushroom pasta, prices, seat counts and “insider tips”, all under postcode 3165, which is not Malvern East’s (3145), and it said we had visited them. We could not stand behind any of it, so the page has been rewritten from scratch. Every place below was checked against its own current website or menu and a second, independent listing on 1 October 2026.
Malvern East is best known for Chaddy, not curry, and the Census shows a suburb whose biggest home languages after English are Mandarin and Greek. Indian food still has a footing here, and it is distinctive: a tandoor house on Waverley Road and a pure-vegetarian Gujarati kitchen on Malvern Road. This guide reads each menu as it is published today, explains every dish in a line, and is honest about where the suburb ends.
Community context: at the 2021 Census, 730 of Malvern East’s 22,296 residents, 3.3 per cent, were born in India. That makes India the second most common overseas birthplace in the suburb, behind China at 5.2 per cent. At home, Mandarin (6.0 per cent) and Greek (5.0 per cent) lead the languages other than English.
The strip: three of the Malvern East addresses on this page are on Waverley Road: Indian Harvest at 111, Gujju’s at 1/141-147 and Tandoori Cottage at 403. Malvern East stops at Dandenong Road to the south, and Wikipedia lists Glen Iris to the north and Carnegie to the south-west among its neighbours, which is where two of the picks below sit. The third is a counter in Chadstone Shopping Centre: the chain gives its shop a Chadstone address, while Wikipedia places the centre inside Malvern East. Every pick carries the address the venue itself gives.
The quick picks
| If you’re after | Head to | Start with | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| A tandoor takeaway in Malvern East | Tandoori Cottage | Half tandoori chicken | $14.90 |
| Gujarati vegetarian food | Kathiyavadi Krunch | Khaman dhokla (weekends) | $9.99 |
| A cheap lunch at Chaddy | Chilli India | One curry with rice or noodles | $15.99 |
| A South Indian dosa | Namma Bangalore Vibbes | MG Road plain dosa | $8.99 |
| Delivery from Glen Iris | Fathima’s Indian Kitchen | Chicken biryani | $16.00 |
In Malvern East
Tandoori Cottage — 403 Waverley Rd, Malvern East VIC 3145
A family tandoor house on the Waverley Road strip: its own site says it opened its doors 25 years ago as a family business, and that it cooks in a charcoal tandoor. It is dinner only, from 5pm, and closed on Mondays. The takeaway menu is the one to read if you are eating at home, because its prices sit below the restaurant menu’s on the dishes we compared: a half tandoori chicken is $14.90 to take away and $16.90 in the dining room, and the murg makhani (butter chicken) is $20.90 against $23.90.
On the menu: barra kabab ($20.90 for four) is lamb chops marinated in yoghurt, rum and spices and cooked in the tandoor; bangan bharta ($18.90) is eggplant roasted over charcoal, then cooked down with onion, tomato and spices. Garlic naan is $4.50, a full tandoori chicken $28.00, and, on the restaurant menu, groups of four or more can book the Tandoori Banquet at $44.90 a head.
Start with: the half tandoori chicken, $14.90 to take away.
Kathiyavadi Krunch — 1901-1903 Malvern Rd, Malvern East VIC 3145
The answer to anyone searching for Indian food on Malvern Road. Kathiyavadi Krunch describes itself as 100 per cent vegetarian Gujarati cooking, and its dinner menu reads like a regional primer. It is closed on Tuesdays, weekend lunch is thali only, and its own site sends delivery orders to Uber Eats and DoorDash.
On the menu: khaman dhokla ($9.99 for ten pieces, weekends only) is a steamed, spongy cake of fermented gram flour, tempered with mustard seeds and curry leaves. Paani puri ($11.99 for six) are hollow crisp puris you fill with spiced water and potato and eat in one bite. Surati undhiyu ($20.99) is a slow-cooked mix of winter vegetables, and the menu itself calls it “A winter delicacy!”. Masala thepla, a spiced flatbread, is $3.00 each.
Start with: KK’s Sunday Special Thali, $35.91, served Sundays from 12pm to 2:30pm only, which the menu lists as three starters, three vegetable dishes, rotis or puri, puran poli, dal or kadhi, rice, a sweet and chutneys. Feeding a crowd? On the same Sunday lunch menu, the Bahubali Thali is $198.00 and the menu says it can feed four to five people.
Close by
Chilli India — Shop B348/1341 Dandenong Rd, Chadstone VIC 3148
A food-court counter in Chadstone Shopping Centre, which Wikipedia places inside Malvern East’s boundaries even though the chain’s own site gives it a Chadstone VIC 3148 address. Its click-and-collect storefront, run on the BYTO ordering platform under the Chadstone shop’s name and address, opens at 11am every day and runs late, to 9:30pm, Thursday to Saturday. The combo board is the value play: one curry with rice or noodles is $15.99.
On the menu: chicken dum biryani ($19.99) is rice and marinated chicken sealed and steamed together so the rice takes on the spices. Chole bhature ($17.99) is a chickpea curry with puffed, deep-fried bread to tear and dunk. Masala tea is $4.95 for the walk back to the car park.
Start with: one curry with rice or noodles, $15.99.
Namma Bangalore Vibbes — 118 Koornang Rd, Carnegie VIC 3163
South of Dandenong Road on the Carnegie strip, and the place on this list for a dosa. It calls itself a Bangalore-inspired South Indian restaurant, and many dishes on its menu carry the names of Bangalore neighbourhoods. A dosa is a crepe of fermented rice and lentil batter; the MG Road plain dosa, crisp outside and soft inside, is $8.99.
On the menu: the Malleswaram neer dosa ($8.99) is a thin, soft rice crepe; the Vijayanagar set dosa ($11.99) is two thick, fluffy ones. Rajajinagar idli, steamed rice cakes, are $7.99. Maddur vada ($17.99) is a crunchy Karnataka fritter of onion and semolina, and the Nati style chicken donne biryani ($27.99) arrives in a traditional leaf bowl.
Start with: the MG Road plain dosa, $8.99.
Fathima’s Indian Kitchen — 57 High St, Glen Iris VIC 3146
The pick for a night in: Fathima’s lists Malvern East VIC 3145 among the suburbs its Glen Iris kitchen delivers to. It opens from 5pm, Wednesday to Monday, is closed on Tuesdays, and serves no alcohol and takes no BYO. Prices below are from its own ordering site, which covers the North Indian standards.
On the menu: chicken biryani is $16.00, daal makhani (black lentils and kidney beans slow-cooked with butter and cream) is $15.90, and the Almir chicken or special butter chicken from the house specials is $18.50. Garlic naan is $3.50 and two samosas are $6.00.
Start with: chicken biryani, $16.00.
Also in Malvern East, without a price
Gujju’s Cafe & Chat House, 1/141-147 Waverley Road, is listed by the Australian Good Food Guide and trades on DoorDash, but the website its listing links to did not load on 1 October 2026, so we had no menu of its own to quote. Indian Harvest is listed at 111 Waverley Road; on 1 October 2026 its own website showed only a “Launching Soon” page with no menu, so it is not in our picks.
Quick answers
Where can I get Indian takeaway in Malvern East?
Tandoori Cottage, 403 Waverley Road, publishes a separate takeaway menu, priced below its dine-in menu on the dishes we compared: half tandoori chicken $14.90, butter chicken $20.90. Kathiyavadi Krunch on Malvern Road takes delivery orders through Uber Eats and DoorDash, and Fathima’s Indian Kitchen in Glen Iris lists Malvern East among its delivery suburbs.
Is there an Indian restaurant on Waverley Road, Malvern East?
Yes. Tandoori Cottage is at 403 Waverley Road and Gujju’s Cafe & Chat House is at 1/141-147 Waverley Road. Indian Harvest is listed at 111 Waverley Road, but on 1 October 2026 its website showed only a “Launching Soon” page.
Is there an Indian restaurant on Malvern Road, Malvern East?
Kathiyavadi Krunch is at 1901-1903 Malvern Road. It describes itself as 100 per cent vegetarian Gujarati cooking; khaman dhokla is $9.99 on weekends and KK’s Sunday Special Thali, served Sundays from 12pm to 2:30pm, is $35.91.
Where can I get a dosa near Malvern East?
Namma Bangalore Vibbes, 118 Koornang Road, Carnegie, is a South Indian restaurant whose menu lists the MG Road plain dosa at $8.99, the neer dosa at $8.99 and the set dosa at $11.99.
Is Chadstone Shopping Centre in Malvern East?
Wikipedia places Chadstone Shopping Centre inside the suburb of Malvern East, and notes that it shares the Malvern East address and postcode. Chilli India’s own site gives its food-court shop as Shop B348/1341 Dandenong Rd, Chadstone VIC 3148.
How we checked
On 1 October 2026 we read each venue’s own website, menu PDF or online ordering page and copied every item and price exactly as printed. Tandoori Cottage’s prices are from its takeaway menu, with two dine-in prices for comparison and the dine-in banquet price; Kathiyavadi Krunch’s are from the dinner menu PDF linked on its own site; Namma Bangalore Vibbes’s from the menu PDF on its site; Chilli India’s from the Chadstone click-and-collect storefront in its name on the BYTO ordering platform, which carries the shop’s address (the chain’s own site links a separate Uber-run ordering page we could not read); and Fathima’s from its own Glen Iris ordering site. No delivery-app prices were used. We confirmed each address at a second, independent source: the Australian Good Food Guide, Tiffin Service, Zest, Menuweb or Locallya. Census figures are from the ABS 2021 QuickStats for Malvern East; the suburb boundary and Chadstone Shopping Centre’s location are from Wikipedia. Menus and opening hours change, and some dishes are seasonal or weekend-only, so check before you go. The photos are illustrative, from Unsplash: they show the kind of dish, not the venue’s own food.
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Sources
- Tandoori Cottage: tandoori-cottage.com.au, takeaway menu and restaurant menu; address also at AGFG
- Kathiyavadi Krunch: kathiyavadikrunch.com, its restaurant page and the dinner menu PDF it links; address also at Tiffin Service
- Chilli India: chilliindia.com.au/chadstone and its Chadstone click-and-collect storefront on BYTO; also at Zest
- Namma Bangalore Vibbes: nammabangalorevibbes.com.au and its menu PDF; address also at AGFG
- Fathima’s Indian Kitchen: fathimasindiankitchen.com.au and its Glen Iris ordering site; address also at Menuweb and Locallya
- Gujju’s Cafe & Chat House: AGFG and DoorDash
- Indian Harvest: indianharvest.com.au
- Malvern East population, birthplace and languages: ABS 2021 Census QuickStats
- Suburb boundary and Chadstone Shopping Centre: Wikipedia, Malvern East and Chadstone Shopping Centre
