Correction (1 October 2026): an earlier version of this page was generated from map listings. It repeated Google star ratings and review counts, called them “verified spots” that were “rated” by locals on nothing more than those Google scores, and counted places in Cairnlea and Kings Park as St Albans restaurants. It has been rewritten, and every place below was checked against its own current website, menu or at least two current listings.
The best restaurant in St Albans depends on the question: a quick bowl at lunch, a long dinner for the family, or something sweet afterwards. Vietnamese food leads the roundup for a reason. At the 2021 Census, 29.2 per cent of St Albans residents used Vietnamese at home, and 25.7 per cent reported Vietnamese ancestry.
This roundup sorts six restaurants by occasion, and every one has a St Albans address. Where a venue publishes its own menu, you get menu items and their listed prices; where it only trades through delivery listings, you get what it cooks but no number. If you only try one, the line at the end of each entry says what to order.
The quick picks
| Occasion | Head to | Menu highlight | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| A big Vietnamese-Chinese table | Phi Phi | Roast duck, steamboat | see its listing |
| Vietnamese street food | Co Thu Quan St Albans | Shaking beef on rice | see its listing |
| A weeknight Thai dinner | St Albans Thai Restaurant | Panang curry | from $18.90 |
| Korean fried chicken with friends | Gami Chicken & Beer St Albans | Duo combo | $42.50 |
| A curry night for the table | Laajwab Indian Restaurant | Non-veg tandoori platter (5 pcs) | $22.99 |
| Dessert and drinks after | Highlands Dessert Coffee House | Bingsu | see its menu board |
By occasion: a long table
Phi Phi Vietnamese & Chinese Restaurant — 28 Alfrieda St, St Albans VIC 3021
The St Albans Town Centre directory describes Phi Phi’s menu as running across beef, chicken, pork, seafood, soup, noodles, barbecue and roast, congee and rice, with pick-up and delivery seven days a week. Its best sellers, per the same listing, are the Vietnamese steamboat, five-spice salt and chilli dishes, hot pot and clay pot rice, and its DoorDash store features roast duck and a goat meat steamboat (lau de). A steamboat is a pot of simmering broth set in the middle of the table for everyone to cook and ladle from, which makes it a group order by design.
Price band: not published on a menu of its own that we could open, so check the listing before you book a table.
If you only try one: the roast duck, then come back with a group for the steamboat.
Laajwab Indian Restaurant — 177A Main Rd W, St Albans VIC 3021
The St Albans Indian restaurant people search for by name, with its full menu priced on the ordering page its own site links to. For a table, the Australian Good Food Guide’s note that it is best known for its tandoori platter is the useful one: the non-veg tandoori platter of tandoori chicken, malai chicken, Kashmiri chicken tikka, fish tikka and lamb seekh kebab is $22.99 for five pieces or $31.99 for ten. Add a lamb rogan josh ($21.99) and garlic naan ($4.80) each, and the table is sorted.
Menu highlight: non-veg tandoori platter, ten pieces, $31.99.
If you only try one: the tandoori platter. Our St Albans Indian guide covers Laajwab’s curries and biryani, and five more Indian kitchens.
By occasion: a weeknight dinner
St Albans Thai Restaurant — Shop 26/1-3 Princess Street, St Albans VIC 3021
A Thai restaurant on Princess Street that describes its food as Halal and opens from 5pm to 9pm, seven days, according to its own site. Its ordering site lists pad thai and panang curry from $18.90 each, which is the mixed-vegetable price; tofu, chicken, beef and seafood versions cost more. Panang is the sweeter, nuttier cousin of red curry, cooked down in thick coconut milk with lime leaves. The mixed entree, two each of spring rolls, curry puffs, fish cakes and chicken satay, is $18.00, and the Thai papaya salad starts at $20.90.
Price band: $18.00 to $20.90 for the four dishes quoted here at their cheapest listed option, as listed on its ordering site; the meat and seafood versions of the curry and noodles cost more.
If you only try one: the panang curry, from $18.90.
Gami Chicken & Beer St Albans — Shop 3, 30 Main Rd W, St Albans VIC 3021
The St Albans branch of Gami, a Korean fried chicken group with several locations, open 12pm to 9pm every day and taking table bookings through its own site. The menu its St Albans page links is built for sharing: the Duo combo (eight wings, seven pieces of boneless chicken and Gami chips) is $42.50, and the Doing Alright combo for one is $28.50. Korean fried chicken is fried twice, which is where the thin, crackly coating comes from, then tossed in sauces such as soy garlic or a sweet-spicy chilli glaze.
Menu highlight: the Mad Gochujang Chicken, grilled chicken with rice cakes and udon on a sizzling plate, $22.50.
If you only try one: the Duo combo, shared between two.
By occasion: a quick bowl
Co Thu Quan St Albans — 320 Main Rd E, St Albans VIC 3021
A Vietnamese street-food kitchen on Main Road East, listed by the Australian Good Food Guide and Curateria at this address. We found no menu of its own online; its Uber Eats store runs from salads (goi) and pho to vermicelli (bun), wraps and rolls, sticky rice (xoi) and rice plates (com). Dishes listed there include shaking beef on rice (com bo luc lac), a Hue style clay pot rice and a water spinach noodle soup (canh bun); shaking beef is cubed beef seared fast in a hot wok with garlic and served over rice.
Price band: delivery-app prices only, so none are given here.
If you only try one: the shaking beef on rice.
By occasion: after dinner
Highlands Dessert Coffee House — 334 Main Road East, St Albans VIC 3021
A dessert and drinks house on Main Road East, open from 5pm Monday to Friday and from 1pm on weekends, closing at 10.30pm or 11pm, according to its own site. The town centre directory lists freshly made waffles, crepes, croffles and bingsu, and the Australian Good Food Guide adds savoury Vietnamese staples such as broken rice, dry rice paper salad and sticky rice. Bingsu is Korean shaved ice, milk-snow fine and piled with fruit or sweet toppings.
Price band: its menu is published as an image on its site, so no prices are copied here.
If you only try one: a bingsu to share.
Quick answers
What are the best restaurants in St Albans, Melbourne?
By occasion: Phi Phi (28 Alfrieda Street) for a big Vietnamese-Chinese table, St Albans Thai Restaurant on Princess Street for a weeknight Thai dinner, Gami Chicken & Beer for Korean fried chicken, Laajwab Indian Restaurant for a curry night, Co Thu Quan for Vietnamese street food and Highlands Dessert Coffee House for dessert.
Is there good Vietnamese food in St Albans?
Vietnamese is the language most used at home in St Albans: 29.2 per cent of residents used it at the 2021 Census, more than the 21.6 per cent who used only English. Phi Phi on Alfrieda Street lists Vietnamese steamboat, hot pot and clay pot rice among its best sellers, and Co Thu Quan on Main Road East lists pho, bun, sticky rice and rice plates.
Does Phi Phi St Albans have a menu online?
We could not open Phi Phi’s own website on 1 October 2026, but its DoorDash store shows its menu, including roast duck and a goat meat steamboat (lau de), and the St Albans Town Centre directory lists its phone number, (03) 9366 5686.
Where can I get Thai food in St Albans?
St Albans Thai Restaurant, Shop 26/1-3 Princess Street, is open 5pm to 9pm daily according to its own site. Its ordering site lists pad thai and panang curry from $18.90 each, the mixed-vegetable price.
Which St Albans restaurants take bookings?
Gami Chicken & Beer St Albans takes table bookings through its own site and is open 12pm to 9pm every day. Laajwab Indian Restaurant’s own site also has a Book a table link. For the rest, ring the venue.
How we checked
On 1 October 2026 we read each venue’s own website, ordering site or menu file and copied every item and price exactly as printed: St Albans Thai Restaurant’s ordering site, the menu PDF linked from Gami’s St Albans page, and the OzFoodHunter ordering page that Laajwab’s own site links to. We confirmed every address at a second, independent source: the St Albans Town Centre traders’ directory, the Australian Good Food Guide, Curateria or the venue’s DoorDash or Uber Eats store. Phi Phi and Co Thu Quan have no menu of their own that we could open, so we describe their food from their listings and give no prices; Highlands publishes its menu only as an image. Star ratings and review counts are left out on purpose. The language and ancestry figures are from the ABS 2021 Census QuickStats for St Albans (Vic.). 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
- Phi Phi: St Albans Town Centre directory and DoorDash
- Laajwab Indian Restaurant: its ordering site, ordering page and AGFG
- St Albans Thai Restaurant: its site, ordering site and DoorDash
- Gami Chicken & Beer St Albans: its St Albans page, menu PDF and St Albans Town Centre directory
- Co Thu Quan St Albans: AGFG, Curateria and Uber Eats
- Highlands Dessert Coffee House: its site, St Albans Town Centre directory and AGFG
- St Albans languages and ancestry: ABS 2021 Census QuickStats
