Correction (1 October 2026): an earlier version of this page was produced by a template generator. It listed eleven “Indian” venues in Murrumbeena that were not real businesses, with dishes such as pumpkin risotto and charcuterie boards, invented seat counts and prices, and a false claim that we had visited them all. It has been rewritten from scratch. Every venue below was checked against its own current information and at least one independent source on 1 October 2026.
Murrumbeena’s Indian food is on Neerim Road by the station, where two kitchens are listed on the same strip at 454 and 480. The suburb is small, so this guide is honestly “in and around”: two places in Murrumbeena itself, then three more in Carnegie and Hughesdale, the suburbs on either side, each picked because its menu or its food is documented somewhere we could read.
Community context: at the 2021 Census, 583 of Murrumbeena’s 9,996 residents (5.8 per cent) were born in India, the most common overseas birthplace in the suburb and above the Victorian share of 4.0 per cent. Gujarati was the fifth most common language used at home other than English, at 1.2 per cent. The menus below reach further than any one region, though: North Indian curry house classics, Telugu home cooking, Bangalore breakfasts, Bombay tiffins and Bangladeshi street food, all within a few kilometres.
A quick primer. North Indian restaurant cooking leans on the tandoor and wheat breads: naan, butter chicken, dal makhani. South Indian food is built on rice and lentils: the dosa, a crisp fermented crepe, and idli, a steamed rice cake, served with sambar and chutneys. Bangladeshi cooking shares a great deal with West Bengal across the border: rice, fish, mustard oil and street snacks like fuchka. Menus change, so give them a squiz before you head out.
The quick picks
| If you’re after | Head to | Order this | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curry house classics by the station | Tara’s Cafe and Indian Restaurant | Butter chicken | $18 |
| Telugu home-style meals and biryani | Vanta Raamudu | A thali | See the delivery apps |
| A tiffin-tin dinner for one | Good Old Mantra | Desi Bento (dine-in) | $27.90 |
| A Bangalore-style dosa | Namma Bangalore Vibbes | CTR-style masala dosa | Not quoted; see its menu page |
| Bangladeshi street snacks | Cha Adda | Fuchka | $10 |
Tara’s Cafe and Indian Restaurant — 454 Neerim Rd, Murrumbeena VIC 3163
If you want Indian food opposite Murrumbeena station, this is it: its own site gives the address as 454 Neerim Road, opposite Murrumbeena Station, and says the business was established 18 years ago. Glen Eira City Council named it runner-up for Shop of the Year in its 2025 Five-Star Safe Food Awards, and highly commended in the restaurant category. The ordering page linked from its site reads like a classic curry house: butter chicken (marked sweet) at $18, lamb rogan josh at $18, dal makhni at $15, a lamb, chicken or beef biryani at $14, garlic naan at $3.50 and papadi chaat at $10. Its site lists dinner six nights, Tuesday to Sunday, and a $12 lunch special (a curry with saffron rice) on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 11am to 2pm.
On the menu: dal makhni is black lentils and kidney beans cooked slowly with butter and cream, a North Indian restaurant staple.
Start with: butter chicken with a garlic naan, $18 and $3.50.
Vanta Raamudu — 480 Neerim Rd, Murrumbeena VIC 3163
If you are looking for Streets of Hyderabad, this is it under its new name. In a post on 13 July 2025 the restaurant’s own Instagram account announced it was becoming Vanta Raamudu, after the section of Telugu home-style meals that had grown into most of what it served; it said the biryani would stay exactly the same and that dosas, idly and vada would move to the centre of the menu. Uber Eats and EatClub both list Vanta Raamudu at 480 Neerim Road, and its Uber Eats menu runs from an all-day South Indian breakfast section through signature thalis and combos, home-style Telugu curries, and biryani, kushka and pulao. It has no website of its own that we could find, so check the delivery apps for current prices.
On the menu: a thali is a full meal on one tray, rice with several small bowls of curry, dal and sides; Andhra cooking is known for tamarind, chilli and a thin dal poured over the rice.
Start with: a thali; its own rebrand post promised the signature veg thali would stay.
Good Old Mantra — 3/23 Koornang Rd, Carnegie VIC 3163
Over the border in Carnegie, which shares Murrumbeena’s 3163 postcode, this is the one with a deal aimed squarely at you: its own site runs a Thursday “Local’s (3163) Discount Night” of 20 per cent off the total bill when you dine in, alcohol included. The site describes Bombay tiffins, tasting thalis, dosas, slow-cooked curries and biryanis. The Desi Bento is $27.90, a four-tier tiffin tin of snack, carbs and protein, dine-in only and served until 7:30pm. On Tuesdays the dine-in Curry Bowl Night is $26.50 for any standard curry with papadam, rice and a butter naan, garlic naan or tandoori roti, and Wednesday is BYO with $5 corkage per person. It opens for dinner from 5:30pm every night.
On the menu: a tiffin is the stacked steel lunch tin carried to offices across Mumbai, each tier holding a different part of the meal.
Start with: the Desi Bento, $27.90.
Namma Bangalore Vibbes — 118 Koornang Rd, Carnegie VIC 3163
The South Indian pick in Carnegie. Its own site calls it a Bangalore-inspired South Indian restaurant and names the dishes it is built on: CTR-style masala dosa, benne dosa, Ruchi ghee pudi thatt idli, donne biryani and filter coffee. The Age Good Food Guide reviewed it in April 2026, listing it under late-night dining and walk-ins only; the guide notes the idli is made to co-owner Jyotsna Reddy’s own recipe and that the biryani uses seeraga samba, a short-grain rice, served in a bowl made from palm leaves. Its full menu is a long PDF linked from the Menu page on its site, and read as text its prices do not line up reliably with the dish names, so none are quoted here.
On the menu: benne dosa is a smaller, thicker dosa from Davangere in Karnataka, cooked with a generous amount of butter (benne in Kannada).
Start with: the CTR-style masala dosa, the house’s own first-named dish.
Cha Adda — 73 Warrigal Rd, Hughesdale VIC 3166
Its own site describes it as a Bangladeshi and Indian restaurant, and says it serves Bangladeshi cuisine for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Fuchka is $10 and chotpoti $10; kacchi biryani with lamb is $22, beef tehari $20, and mishti doi, the sweet set yoghurt, $8. A cup of cha is $3. Butter chicken and lamb rogan josh ($22 each) are there too if someone at the table wants the familiar. The site lists 10am to 10pm on weekends and 5pm to 10pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
On the menu: fuchka is Bangladesh’s name for the hollow, crisp puri filled with spiced potato and chickpeas and dunked in tangy tamarind water; chotpoti is a warm bowl of yellow peas and potato topped with egg, tamarind and crushed fuchka.
Start with: the fuchka, $10.
Quick answers
Which Indian restaurant is near Murrumbeena station?
Tara’s Cafe and Indian Restaurant at 454 Neerim Road; its own site describes the address as opposite Murrumbeena Station. Vanta Raamudu, the South Indian kitchen formerly called Streets of Hyderabad, is listed at 480 Neerim Road on the same strip.
Is there a South Indian restaurant in Murrumbeena?
Yes. Vanta Raamudu at 480 Neerim Road serves Telugu home-style meals, with dosas, idly and vada central to the menu, according to its own announcement. Namma Bangalore Vibbes, a Bangalore-style South Indian restaurant at 118 Koornang Road, is in neighbouring Carnegie.
What happened to Streets of Hyderabad in Murrumbeena?
It rebranded. On 13 July 2025 its Instagram account announced that Streets of Hyderabad was becoming Vanta Raamudu, and Uber Eats and EatClub now list Vanta Raamudu at 480 Neerim Road, Murrumbeena.
Can I get Indian takeaway delivered in Murrumbeena?
Tara’s takes pickup and delivery orders through the ordering page linked from its own site, which lists Murrumbeena, Carnegie, Hughesdale and nearby suburbs as delivery areas. Its site gives delivery as $5 within 2 km and $7 beyond, with a $40 minimum order.
What are Tara’s opening hours?
Its own site lists dinner six nights, Tuesday to Sunday, from 5pm to 9:30pm, and lunch on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 11am to 2pm. Its online ordering page gives a 5:30pm start for evening orders, so allow for that if you are ordering ahead.
How we checked
On 1 October 2026 we read each venue’s own website, ordering page or official social account, and copied every item and price exactly as printed: Tara’s from the ordering page its site links to, Good Old Mantra from its own homepage, and Cha Adda from the menu page on its own site. Each address was confirmed at a second, independent source: Glen Eira City Council’s 2025 Safe Food Awards page, EatClub, Uber Eats or the Australian Good Food Guide. No prices are quoted for Vanta Raamudu, which has no website of its own and prices its food only on delivery apps, or for Namma Bangalore Vibbes, whose PDF menu does not pair prices with dishes reliably when read as text. The population, birthplace and language figures are from the ABS 2021 Census QuickStats for Murrumbeena. Ordering-page prices can differ from counter prices, and deals change, so check before you go. 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
- Tara’s Cafe and Indian Restaurant: its own website (tarasindianrestaurant.com.au, not linked) and its ordering page; award at Glen Eira City Council
- Vanta Raamudu: Instagram announcement, Uber Eats and EatClub
- Good Old Mantra: goodoldmantra.com.au; address also at EatClub
- Namma Bangalore Vibbes: nammabangalorevibbes.com.au; address also at AGFG; review at The Age Good Food Guide
- Cha Adda: chaadda.com.au and its menu; address also at AGFG
- Murrumbeena population, birthplace and languages: ABS 2021 Census QuickStats
