When it comes to Indian food, I totally dig this place. Their food is freaking delicious…read more The setting might not be all funky and fancy (it's a strange array of pink and gray furniture) but it doesn't matter when once your meal comes. My personal favorite on the menu are the tandoori aloo which are amazing stuffed potatoes in a yogurt sauce with ginger and garlic. They do a real mean tandoori chicken tikka and you gotta try the beef kashmiri although the vindaloo will knock your socks off. Their menu is big- with butter chicken to rogan josh and deserts to top you off as well as a good choice of vegetarian dishes. Make sure you get some those golden balls of syrupy goodness more commonly known as gulab jamun, they're SO GOOD. Oh, and this place is both eat in and take away so you can enjoy there or at home!

Lucky enough to live around the corner from this place and it's become our regular that never…read moredisappoints. From the outside it looks quite unimposing, but step inside and you'll be in for a treat. At the start of each meal they bring out papadam which are fresh and light, but the best bit is the accompanying mint raita. We're addicted to this stuff and always ask for more to accompany the rest of the meal. The curries are all full of flavour, and super fresh. We've recently discovered the fish curry which sees a delicate white fish cooked in a beautiful tomato based sauce. Oh - and you can't go past the samosas. At only $4.50 for 2, they are large and fluffy - add some of that mint raita and you can't go wrong!

My family is Visiting from SA so we did a search on Yelp for a good local haunt…read more Previous reviews on this place looked good so we gave it a shot I'm glad to report the previous reviews didn't let us down. This place is good We got 4 pizzas and everyone rated what they tried. Rating 4/5 stars as I've had better pizzas but this store serves up a solid effort Pricing I thought was standard and fair

I've been going to Nando's pizza for over 15 years. Their pizza is delicious and always perfectly…read moremade. The prices are great. I highly recommend this place.

I've found that restaurant prices are high here in the cities of Australia, so I wasn't surprised…read moreby the cost. It was in line with the average prices I've encountered. I settled on the butter chicken and plain naan. There was plenty of both chicken and sauce in the portion I got. There were two pieces of naan bread; great for sopping up the sauce, as I chose not to order rice. Both were very good. At first I wasn't sure it would be enough but it turned out to be just right. But there were three things I wanted to try and unfortunately there were no half-portions available. The waiter said they would do a half-portion of plain biryani, but that's it. I opted for naan instead. I wish they would consider half-portions so I could have tried more items. When you see the sign on Little Collins Street, don't enter there. You'll end up in a bar. Instead, walk back a few steps away from Elizabeth Street and you'll see a little food "alley." It's in there. The alley and restaurant are accessible. Tram stop close by on Elizabeth Street. It's a cute little tucked away spot that I think would be good for date night or a small group. You can make reservations but I went in the early evening and had no problem. Alcohol is available; there were beers in the cooler, and I think there was also some liquor behind the counter, but I'm not positive. Sorry no photos; strangely, they all came out blurry, which is unusual for me.

Very good beef biryani. The chicken tikka and chicken tikka masala have a lot to be desired…read more Cost is quite high for the portions you get.

This place is by far the best place I've ever ever been to for South Indian food…read more It is cheap and cheerful. You can expect a wait (even on Anzac day in the evening when most people are probably watching the footy) but not for too long. Food is served quickly. The menu is massive with over 50 kinds of dosa, more than 10 kinds of biryani, a range of indo-chinese options (like chicken 65 and gobi manchurian), a select number of North Indian street food (like papdi chaat and samosa chaat), even dessert dosa (like lindt chocolate cashew dosa) and lassi (avocado, plain and mango). My friends and I wanted to eat everything on the menu and with dishes ranging from 10.95 to 13.95, it was hard not to order EVERYTHING! We settled for kara lamb dosa, the chicken hyderabadi biryani and the gobi manchurian. Portions are decent sized. Food arrived within 10-15 minutes. The gobi manchurian was garlicky and battered and slightly spicy. The hyderabadi biryani was by far the best biryani I've ever had. It was spicy (the way Indians like it - so not overpowering enough to mask the flavour but just at the right level), came with a nice spicey chutney and yoghurt (or dhai). The kara lamb dosa was dosa stuffed with deliciously flavoured lamb mince served with the most delicious chutney I've ever tasted and sambar. The sambar was quite sweet and not what I'm used to but with everything else being spicy - the sweet sambar was a relief! Can't wait to make more frequent visits to Dosa Hut! Even my friend who lived in South India for four years said that the food was amazing and equal to the food he's had in the South of India. p.s. Don't go here if you want butter chicken, chicken tikka masala, lamb rogan josh and naan.

Went here with friends who are regulars to try dosa. I normally can only find naan in The States…read moreand S.Korea. I had seen it in Singapore but didn't get to try it there. It was pretty airy and crispy. I think I got it with tandoori chicken inside which seems a bit different. The samosa I ate later on earned thus place another star (we took 3 to go) Not dry at all...best samosa I've ever had.

Delicious food, however the service was a little to be desired…read more They gave a variety of wine and liquor. So I ordered a vodka and soda water. We enjoyed the Butter Chicken, Chicken Tikka Masala with Basmati Rice and of course ordered the Garlic Naan and Cheese Naan. All were excellent. Again, only reason not 5 stars, is that we had to ask for things more than once. I wouldn't hesitate in coming back.

I wasn't blown away by Shiraaz, but it's not a bad place to go. The atmosphere is nice, the decor…read moreis classy, and the restaurant feels rather elegant and high-end, even though the prices aren't. The food, unfortunately, was a bit average. They have a vegetarian section on their menu, but it's heavy on the cream and ghee, so if you're vegan, your only option is the tadka dahl (with yellow lentils/split peas). The waiter did kind of hesitate and suggest they COULD try to make something else dairy-free...but it seemed like it would be an effort for them so I went with the tadka dahl. While it was nice, I found it a bit bland -- I like exquisite flavours with my Indian food, cuz I like to feel like I'm on an exotic trip somewhere and not sitting in the middle of Melbourne CBD after a long day at work, yo -- but this just tasted like watered-down Indian food intended to appease a Western palate. My boyfriend had the vegetable jalfrezi and loved it, though, so maybe it's just my dish that was a bit disappointing. We also ordered two roti, one without butter and one with. The one without butter came out pretty burned and not very palatable. Bit rich for $3.50 a pop, especially since they were quite small in size anyway. On the plus side, we did get pappadoms for free, and they came with two types of dips (mint yoghurt and tamarind chutney) -- I couldn't eat the mint one (dairy) but the tamarind one was quite nice. (It was sweet so if you're vegan just double-check they used sugar instead of honey -- I didn't think about it until afterward.) For the classy atmosphere (a la white tablecloths, wine glasses, and subdued tasteful decor), the prices are certainly good. With our pappadoms, two mains, a shared bowl of rice, and two roti, it came to less than $45, and we were super-full. They have an even cheaper lunch deal -- two-dish thali for $14.50, and even cheaper if you take it away. Aside from the burned roti costing us an extra $3.50, I think this place is good value for money. Service was excellent. All three people who helped us (the guy who seated us, the women who was our actual server, and the guy who rang us up at the end) were all super-smiley and friendly and patient with our questions. I read some reviews about bad service for this place before -- that person must no longer be there (or it just wasn't their shift) because we thought the service was exceptional. All in all, I'd say this place is nice if you're in the mood to feel like you're at a more expensive place but not pay the more expensive prices. It's probably also not the best restaurant for vegans. Hopefully in the future they can try to make some of their vegetarian dishes less dairy-dependent and offer clearly-marked vegan options.

Meh. This is an average Indian restaurant in a below average area for Indian food. I picked up a…read moretakeaway delivery and wouldn't have stayed to eat. It's one of those 'garish lights on full blast' kinda joints with a vacuum where some atmosphere should be. I bought a chicken tikka masala which was pretty good, I suppose. It didn't blow me away but it was nice enough. Sadly I can't extend the same pleasantries to the abomination that was my garlic naan. I can only imagine they found something down the back of an old disused cooker in the basement and decided to serve it with my main meal as some kind of practical joke. All in, I'd probably consider this having exhausted unknowns, but I wouldn't expect a meal I'd remember.

To cut directly to the chase, Tandoori Hut On High is one of those closely guarded local secrets…read morethat, once discovered, you will struggle to best. Small, humble and - I say this endearingly - just a bit shabby and quaint to the eye, Tandoori Hut doesn't pretend to offer an immersive or glamorous dining experience; its focus, and the labour of love of the family that owns and operates it, is well and truly the food. Boasting the most consistently fragrant, delicious and gratifying lineup if Indian cuisine that I have ever encountered in a single place, I constantly find myself wishing that I still lived nearby enough that it could have remained one of my weekly staples. Give it a try; I assure you, you will be mightily impressed.

Sometimes I stumble across a restaurant purely because of good aesthetics, and just hope that the…read morefood will "match", and I'm often right, and was again tonight. I wanted to try it here because it looks great at night driving past and I love Indian food, so I didn't think I could go wrong. So glad we tried this and you must too. It's beautiful and spacious inside, and one thing it has that other Indian restaurants don't, is nice big tables. We were seated promptly (albeit in hard and a bit uncomfortable chairs) and the manager/owner(?) told us the specials and explained the entrees. Everything sounded delicious. I ordered the Smashed Samosa for starters and it was not only excellent in taste, but one of the most gorgeously presented dishes I've had. It was really good, although a tiny bit on the hot side. For main, I had the Butter Chicken and Garlic Naan, and shared rice. Everything came out so beautifully presented. The flavours were so good, and the actual dishes themselves were great and different to other Indian restaurants. You actually eat out of the dish the main comes in, rather than dishing it out onto plates. The only minor things I wasn't a fan of, was that the chicken was on the bone rather than boneless pieces, but it was easy to eat, and tasted so dang good! It could have done with a little more sauce, as there didn't seem enough for the dish plus naan, but really, this is just nitpicking. Overall ... I would HIGHLY recommend trying Toddy. The service was quick and friendly, and the food aesthetically and palatally pleasing. It's well priced and a lot of parking outside. Give this a go NOW if you like Indian food with a twist.

One of the best Indian (maybe the best) in Melbourne. Everything has a more fancy feel than your…read morenormal Indian restaurant. Get the pani puri shots!

There's barely a bad thing I can say about Roti Boti. It's consistently good food, and the service…read moreis pretty much impeccable and I keep coming back often, because it's just great Indian food. I don't tend to have the most adventurous palate out there, so when it comes to Indian food, I'm usually a Butter Chicken, Garlic Naan and rice kinda girl. But at Roti Boti, they do a STUNNING Mango Chicken, the likes of which I haven't tasted elsewhere. I'm not normally into savoury and sweet, but this works well. Their Butter Chicken is equally as good, and their Naan full of enough garlic to get you in trouble with your family, friends and coworkers for a good half week or so. If I get an entree too, I'll opt for their delicious Samosas and they're some of the best I've had anywhere. 99% of the time, the service is impeccable and spot on. The owner gets to know you even after one visit and could almost recite the order you placed your previous visit without error. He has the most amazing memory. It's a family run business and they pay attention to detail and always make you feel welcome. The only minimal downside is when they're doing persistent take away orders, and therefore your meal is delayed and delayed ... however ... if that's the only fault a restaurant has, it says a lot, and the food is worth the wait. It is quite dark inside, so be sure to have your battery on high for your phone if you use the torch app to read menus. But once you've ordered, be prepared for one of the best Indian meals around. Roti Boti is hard to beat.

I love the dark and cozy lighting and the incents, which all contribute to an authentic Indian…read moreexperience. There is no other place I would rather have my curry. You know when you visit a restaurant where the staff genuinely cares about their costumers, and the food they provide. Roti boti is one of them. The passion for spices and flavors is presented in each meal, and the waitresses and waiters remember even the smallest moderation to every order without even writing it down most times. My partner is obsessed with their Kabuli naan, and I have fallen in love with their Kadhai chicken, but in saying that, I absolutely love all of their curries. All. Of. Them. As a starter we always order the onion rings, they are never a let down. The owner himself treats the restaurant and the costumers with more respect and presence than I've ever experienced at a restaurant, and he make sure that he gets around to each table to personally see how the food is being experienced. I have never had a bad experience here, and I'm sure that I never will. Roti Boti for the people!