Correction (1 October 2026): an earlier version of this page was produced by a template generator. It listed nine “Indian” venues we could not find in any listing we checked, among them Vera Post, The Sunny Depot, The Old Table and Ada’s, at addresses on West Drive, James Street and Barkly Lane. It gave them invented prices, invented seat counts and “insider tips”, printed postcode 3025, which is not West Footscray’s (it is 3012), and ended with the line “Data sourced from Google Places, OpenStreetMap, and ABS Census”, which did not describe how the page was made. It has been rewritten from scratch. Every place below was checked on 1 October 2026 against its own website or menu and at least one other source.
West Footscray’s Indian food keeps to one stretch of Barkly Street. The three kitchens in this guide sit between number 559 and number 604, so in a single walk you pass chaat and tandoor, a menu with no meat on it, and the first branch of a dosa chain. Every price below was copied from the venue’s own menu on 1 October 2026.
Community context: at the 2021 Census, 434 of West Footscray’s 11,729 residents (3.7 per cent) were born in India, and Telugu, the language of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, was the fifth most common language used at home other than English, at 1.4 per cent.
A primer for the board. North Indian cooking leans on wheat breads and the tandoor: naan, bhatura, tandoori meats, butter chicken and dal makhani. South Indian cooking is built on rice and lentils: dosa, idli, sambar and coconut chutney. Chaat is the street-snack family in between, salty, sweet and sour at once. Barkly Street covers all three.
The quick picks
| If you’re after | Head to | Start with | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Street-snack chaat | Aangan | Pani puri | $12.50 |
| A meat-free thali | Krishna Pait Pooja | Vegetable thali | $22.00 |
| A South Indian dosa | Dosa Hut | Masala dosa | $16.95 |
| Biryani | Dosa Hut | Chicken dum biryani | $18.95 |
Aangan — 559 Barkly St, West Footscray VIC 3012
Aangan is a Melbourne group whose own outlets page lists nine restaurants, and West Footscray is one of them. Its branch menu opens with vegetarian entrees, chaat among them. On the menu: pani puri ($12.50), hollow wheat-semolina shells filled with potato and chickpeas, served with mint-flavoured water to pour in, and cholley bhaturay ($18.00), spiced chickpeas with puffed fried bread.
Further down are butter chicken at $19.00, dal makhani (black lentils in a creamy butter and tomato gravy) at $18.00, a boneless chicken biryani at $19.00 and garlic naan at $3.50. The veg thali, $34.00, packs dal makhani, paneer lababdar, rice, two naan, salad and gulab jamun into one sectioned tray. Aangan’s own site links both takeaway and delivery ordering.
Start with: pani puri, $12.50.
Krishna Pait Pooja — 3/578 Barkly St, West Footscray VIC 3012
No meat or fish appears anywhere on this kitchen’s online menu, which makes it the simple answer for a vegetarian table. The menu leads with thalis. A thali is a set plate of small portions, and here the vegetable thali ($22.00) is two vegetable curries with one naan and rice. The chole bhature thali ($16.00) pairs a spicy chickpea curry with two pieces of fried bread.
On the menu: dal makhani ($18.00), black lentils with red kidney beans in a butter sauce. Garlic naan from the tandoor is $5.00, a samosa is $4.00 a piece, and the vegetable biryani, described as Punjabi style, is $15.00. The venue’s own site takes orders online and offers delivery.
Start with: the vegetable thali, $22.00.
Dosa Hut — 604 Barkly St, West Footscray VIC 3012
Dosa Hut now lists 25+ branches across Australia, and its own site says this Barkly Street shop, which it calls Footscray, was its first ever branch. A dosa is a crepe of fermented rice and lentil batter cooked until crisp, served with chutney and sambar, a tangy lentil-and-vegetable broth.
On the menu: the plain dosa is $10.95, the ghee podi dosa ($12.95) is brushed with ghee and spread with “gunpowder”, a dry spice-and-lentil powder, and the masala dosa ($16.95) is filled with spiced potato. The Mysore masala dosa ($17.95) adds a spicy red chutney inside. If rice suits you better, the chicken dum biryani is $18.95, served with chicken 65, mirchi ka salan and raita. A dum biryani is cooked with the rice and meat sealed in one pot, so the steam carries the spice through the grains. The branch page links Dosa Hut’s own online ordering site.
Start with: the masala dosa, $16.95.
Quick answers
Where is the Indian food in West Footscray?
On Barkly Street. The three kitchens in this guide sit between 559 and 604 Barkly Street: Aangan at 559, Krishna Pait Pooja at 3/578 and Dosa Hut at 604.
Which Indian restaurants in West Footscray do takeaway or delivery?
Aangan’s own site links both takeaway and delivery ordering. Krishna Pait Pooja’s own site takes orders online and offers delivery. Dosa Hut’s branch page links its own online ordering site. Check on each venue’s own page that your street is covered before you order.
Is there a vegetarian Indian restaurant in West Footscray?
Krishna Pait Pooja at 3/578 Barkly Street: no meat or fish appears on its online menu. The vegetable thali is $22.00, the chole bhature thali $16.00, dal makhani $18.00, garlic naan $5.00 and vegetable biryani $15.00.
Where can I get biryani in West Footscray?
All three kitchens in this guide list one. Dosa Hut’s chicken dum biryani is $18.95, Aangan’s boneless chicken biryani is $19.00 and Krishna Pait Pooja’s vegetable biryani is $15.00, each on the venue’s own menu.
What does a masala dosa cost at Dosa Hut in West Footscray?
$16.95 on the menu Dosa Hut publishes for this branch, which it calls Footscray. A plain dosa is $10.95, a ghee podi dosa $12.95 and a Mysore masala dosa $17.95.
How we checked
On 1 October 2026 we read each venue’s own website or online ordering menu and copied every item and price exactly as printed. Aangan’s prices come from its West Footscray ordering menu, Krishna Pait Pooja’s from the menu feed behind its own ordering site, and Dosa Hut’s from the menu page it publishes for this branch. We confirmed each address at a second source: the Australian Good Food Guide or OpenStreetMap. We looked at other names on the strip too; where we could not find a venue’s own current website and menu, it is not listed here. At 551 Barkly Street, two different restaurant names, Mr Biryani and Bawarchi Biryanis, each publish that address and the same phone number on their own websites, so we could not tell which one trades there now and have left it out until that is clear. Population, birthplace and language figures are from the ABS 2021 Census QuickStats for West Footscray. Online menu prices can differ from counter prices and change without notice. We do not repeat star ratings or review counts. The photos are illustrative, from Unsplash: they show the kind of dish, not the venue’s own food.
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Sources
- Aangan: outlets page, home page and West Footscray ordering menu; address also at AGFG and OpenStreetMap
- Krishna Pait Pooja: krishnapaitpooja.com.au and its ordering menu feed; address also at OpenStreetMap and AGFG (listed there as Krishna on Barkley, same unit and phone number)
- Dosa Hut: branch page and branch menu; address also at AGFG
- 551 Barkly Street: Mr Biryani’s West Footscray page and Bawarchi Biryanis’ Melbourne site
- West Footscray population, birthplace and languages: ABS 2021 Census QuickStats
