Correction (1 October 2026): an earlier version of this page listed twelve “Indian” venues in Seddon, none of which appears in the Seddon Village traders’ directory, at addresses that carried Yarraville’s postcode (3013) instead of Seddon’s (3011). It also repeated seat counts, prices and tips we could not stand behind, and claimed we had visited every place. It has been rewritten from scratch. Every venue below was checked against its own website or ordering page and at least one independent listing on 1 October 2026.
The food on a suburb’s strip arrives with the people who settle around it, and Seddon’s strip tells you something about its neighbours. On 1 October 2026 the Seddon Village Traders Association’s A-Z directory, which runs from a bakery and a butcher to a Mexican restaurant and a Korean street-food counter, had no Indian restaurant on it. So this guide looks next door: south to Yarraville, and to Barkly Street in West Footscray, where four of the kitchens below sit between numbers 551 and 604.
Community context: at the 2021 Census, India was the second most common overseas birthplace in West Footscray, after Vietnam, at 3.7 per cent of 11,729 residents, and Telugu was one of the five most common languages used at home there (1.4 per cent). In Seddon itself, the top languages other than English were Vietnamese (4.9 per cent), Greek (2.0) and Macedonian (1.8).
The precinct: Wikipedia describes Barkly Village, a section of Barkly Street in West Footscray, as a strip of grocers and shops with a long multicultural history, including a large Indian grocery. The other two kitchens are in Yarraville.
A quick primer before you read the boards. North Indian cooking, Punjabi in particular, is the food of the tandoor and wheat breads: tandoori chicken, naan, dal makhani, butter chicken. South Indian cooking is rice-and-lentil country: dosa, idli, sambar. The Telugu-speaking states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, home of Hyderabadi biryani, bring sour leaves, pickles and serious heat. Menus change, so give them a squiz before you head out.
The quick picks
| If you’re after | Head to | Start with | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tandoor classics in Yarraville | Mishra’s Kitchen | Tandoori murgh, half | $15.00 |
| A sizzling tandoori platter | Tandoori Times | Tandoori Times Platter | $34.90 |
| Dosa and idli | Dosa Hut Footscray | Masala dosa | $16.95 |
| Hyderabadi biryani to share | Bawarchi Biryanis | Chicken dum biryani, couple pack | $42.00 |
| A vegetable thali | Krishna Pait Pooja | Vegetable thali | $22.00 |
| A critics’ pick for South Indian snacks | Jaathara at Barkly | JTR mysore bonda | not checked |
Mishra’s Kitchen — 18 Wembley Ave, Yarraville VIC 3013
Mishra’s own website calls Wembley Avenue “The Original Mishra’s Kitchen”, and says that after 14 years there it has opened a new location at 23 Vernon Street, South Kingsville. Its restaurant menu is a tandoor-and-curry list priced to the cent: tandoori murgh, chicken marinated overnight in yoghurt and spices and char-grilled, is $15.00 for a half or $25.00 for a full; butter chicken is $19.90; dal Mishrani, black lentils slow-cooked Punjabi style, is $17.50; and garlic naan is $4.50. On the menu: Goan fish ($22.90) is rockling cooked with ground coconut, tamarind and whole spices, and a mango lassi ($4.50), the sweet yoghurt drink, is the usual way to cool things down.
Start with: tandoori murgh, half, $15.00.
Tandoori Times — 45 Anderson St, Yarraville VIC 3013
The Anderson Street kitchen’s website puts its prices on four featured dishes. The Tandoori Times Platter, a selection of tandoori meats on a sizzling plate, is $34.90; butter chicken, chicken tikka finished in a creamy tomato and butter sauce, is $23.50; and Delhi’s goat masala curry, slow-cooked goat on the bone in a thick masala gravy, is $24.90. On the menu: daal palak ($19.90) is yellow lentils with fresh spinach, tossed with onion, tomato, chilli and coriander. The rest of the menu sits inside its online ordering app, which we could not read, so those are the only prices here, and a home-page price can lag the ordering app.
Start with: Delhi’s goat masala curry, $24.90.
Dosa Hut Footscray — 604 Barkly Street, West Footscray VIC 3012
Dosa Hut’s own site says Footscray “is where it all began” for the chain, and it runs a page headed “Indian restaurant near Seddon” that points to this Barkly Street branch. On the menu: a dosa is a thin crepe of fermented rice and lentil batter cooked until crisp; the plain dosa is $10.95, the masala dosa, wrapped around spiced potato, is $16.95, and the ghee podi dosa, brushed with ghee and spread with “gunpowder” spice, is $12.95. Two sambar idly, the steamed rice cakes, in a tangy lentil and vegetable broth, are $8.95, and pav bhaji, a buttery mashed-vegetable curry with toasted buns, is $14.95.
Start with: masala dosa, $16.95.
Bawarchi Biryanis — 551 Barkly St, West Footscray VIC 3012
Bawarchi’s website bills it as an Indian restaurant chain from the USA, now in Melbourne, and its menu is built around Hyderabadi dum biryani: meat or vegetables layered with long-grain basmati and steamed in a tightly sealed, heavy-bottomed pot, served with raita and mirchi ka salan, a chilli curry. The Hyderabadi chicken dum biryani is $18.00 as a single pack, $42.00 as a couple pack and $70.00 as a family pack (the menu does not say how many a family pack feeds). On the menu: gongura chicken dum biryani ($19.00) uses gongura, the sour sorrel leaf of Andhra cooking; the veg dum biryani single pack is $17.00, and chicken 65, a spicy fried-chicken starter, is $16.00.
Start with: Hyderabadi chicken dum biryani, single pack, $18.00.
Krishna Pait Pooja — 3/578 Barkly St, West Footscray VIC 3012
Pait pooja is a Hindi phrase, literally “stomach worship”, for a good feed, and the menu on this kitchen’s own ordering site is built from vegetables, lentils, chickpeas, paneer and tofu. The thalis are the easy way in: a vegetable thali, two vegetable curries with one naan and rice, is $22.00, and the chole bhature thali, spicy chickpea curry with two pieces of fried bread, is $16.00. On the menu: dal makhani ($18.00) is black lentils with red kidney beans in a butter sauce; a single samosa is $4.00, samosa chaat (usually a broken samosa under yoghurt and chutneys) is $12.00, and garlic naan is $5.00.
Start with: vegetable thali, $22.00.
Jaathara at Barkly — 587 Barkly St, West Footscray VIC 3012
The Age Good Food Guide includes Jaathara at Barkly in its 2026 coverage of Melbourne’s western suburbs, marks it a Critics’ Pick and names the JTR mysore bonda as its must-order. A mysore bonda is a deep-fried dumpling of flour and yoghurt, a South Indian tea-time snack usually eaten with coconut chutney. The Jaathara website, which links to the Barkly Street Facebook page, describes “Telugu & South Indian cuisine” but shows its Docklands branch’s address beside the menu, so we have not quoted Barkly Street prices; ask when you order.
Start with: the JTR mysore bonda (price not checked).
Quick answers
Is there an Indian restaurant in Seddon?
Not on the Seddon Village Traders Association’s A-Z directory as we read it on 1 October 2026. An older business listing places The Indian Palette at 1/140 Victoria Street, Seddon, but the traders’ directory and the Australian Good Food Guide now list Amara Coffee at that address, and The Indian Palette’s website did not load for us. The nearest Indian kitchens we could check are in Yarraville and on Barkly Street, West Footscray.
Which Indian restaurants near Seddon do delivery?
We did not find a delivery list naming Seddon on any of these venues’ websites, so check your address at the ordering step. Mishra’s Kitchen, Tandoori Times, Dosa Hut Footscray, Bawarchi Biryanis and Krishna Pait Pooja all link to online ordering from their own sites, and Dosa Hut also runs a page headed “Indian restaurant near Seddon”.
Where can I get an Indian food parcel or family pack near Seddon?
Bawarchi Biryanis, 551 Barkly Street, West Footscray, sells its Hyderabadi chicken dum biryani as a couple pack at $42.00 and a family pack at $70.00; its menu does not say how many a family pack feeds. For one person, Krishna Pait Pooja’s vegetable thali is $22.00: two vegetable curries with naan and rice.
Where can I get a dosa near Seddon?
Dosa Hut Footscray, 604 Barkly Street, West Footscray. Its own menu lists a plain dosa at $10.95, a ghee podi dosa at $12.95 and a masala dosa at $16.95.
What makes a biryani “dum”?
Dum means slow-steaming in a sealed pot: marinated meat or vegetables and part-cooked basmati are layered and cooked together so the rice takes on the spices. Bawarchi Biryanis describes its biryanis as layered with long-grain basmati and steamed in a tightly sealed, heavy-bottomed dish.
How we checked
On 1 October 2026 we read each venue’s own website, menu page or online ordering page and copied every item and price exactly as printed. Krishna Pait Pooja’s prices come from the menu feed behind its own ordering site; Bawarchi’s from the ordering menu linked from its own site; Dosa Hut’s from its Footscray menu page, cross-checked against its Footscray ordering site; Mishra’s from the restaurant menu on its website; and Tandoori Times’ from the featured dishes on its home page, because we could not read its ordering app. We confirmed each address at a second, independent source: the Australian Good Food Guide, Localsearch, HalalMaps or OpenStreetMap. Jaathara at Barkly’s details come from AGFG, Localsearch and The Age Good Food Guide; we did not use delivery-app prices, star ratings or review counts anywhere. Census figures are from the ABS 2021 QuickStats for Seddon and West Footscray, and the Barkly Village description is from Wikipedia. Online prices can differ from counter prices, and 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
- Mishra’s Kitchen: 18 Wembley Ave page, restaurant menu and new location page; address also at AGFG
- Tandoori Times: tandooritimes.com.au; address also at HalalMaps
- Dosa Hut Footscray: branch page, Seddon page, Footscray menu and ordering site; address also at AGFG
- Bawarchi Biryanis: bawarchimelbourne.com and its ordering menu; address also at Localsearch
- Krishna Pait Pooja: krishnapaitpooja.com.au and its menu feed; address also at OpenStreetMap
- Jaathara at Barkly: The Age Good Food Guide, AGFG, Localsearch and jaathara.com.au
- Seddon traders: Seddon Village directory; Amara Coffee at AGFG; The Indian Palette listing at Singh.com.au
- Census: ABS 2021 QuickStats, Seddon and West Footscray
- Barkly Village: Wikipedia, West Footscray
