Correction (1 October 2026): an earlier version of this page was generated from map listings. It repeated star ratings, review counts and per-head price ranges we could not stand behind, gave descriptions nobody had checked, and counted restaurants in Richmond and South Yarra as Burnley’s own. It has been rewritten, and every place below was checked against its own current website, menu or listing.
Burnley is a small suburb, and its Indian food lives just over its borders. The Yarra forms its southern and eastern boundaries, Burnley Park sits to the north, and Swan Street cuts straight through on its way west into Richmond. Community context: at the 2021 Census Burnley counted 794 residents, and 82.7 per cent of them used only English at home.
What Burnley does have is neighbours. Richmond shares Burnley’s 3121 postcode, and its two long strips, Swan Street and Bridge Road, carry the Indian kitchens closest to home; cross the river and Burwood Road in Hawthorn adds another. This guide puts five of them side by side, with each dish explained in a line and every price copied from the venue’s own menu. Menus move, so give them a squiz before you head out.
The quick picks
| If you’re after | Head to | Start with | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| The one readers search for | Indiaus Curry House | Its biryani or a flame-grilled entree | No own menu online |
| Street food with theatre | 3 Idiots | Wafer Balloon Busters (paani puri) | $14.90 |
| A stuffed flatbread feed | Parathaas | Aloo pyaz parathaas, two pieces | $19.99 |
| Butter chicken with a backstory | Jai Ho Indian Restaurant | Makhani sauce with chicken | $24.00 |
| One plate, whole dinner | D’Tandoor | Non-veg thali | $22.50 |
Indiaus Curry House — 462-464 Bridge Rd, Richmond VIC 3121
This is the restaurant readers search for by name when they land on this page, so it goes first. Uber Eats, DoorDash and Localsearch all list Indiaus Curry House at 462-464 Bridge Road, Richmond, and all three agree on the address. We could not find a website or a menu of its own, so there are no prices here: its Uber Eats listing sorts the menu into flame-grilled entrees, biryani, mains, naans and a meal deal, the shape of a curry-house menu.
On the menu: biryani, rice slow-cooked in layers with spiced meat or vegetables so every spoonful carries the masala. Start with: a biryani, and check the current price on its listing before you order.
3 Idiots — 378 Bridge Road, Richmond VIC 3121
Further along Bridge Road, 3 Idiots says it crafts “contemporary Indian dishes with Melbourne in mind”, and its menu page lists the full menu as served Tuesday to Sunday, 5pm to 9pm. The signature is Wafer Balloon Busters ($14.90), its name for paani puri: hollow, crisp wafers you fill with spiced, herby water and eat in one go. Papdi chaat ($17.90) is pitched as a nachos-style twist on the Mumbai street snack, while the online order page lists the butter chicken at $27.90 and a dhungar-smoked dal makhani at $20.90; dhungar is the old trick of sealing a live coal and ghee in with the dal so it takes on a smoky edge. Garlic naan is $6.00, and the order page lists pickup from the Bridge Road shop.
Start with: the Wafer Balloon Busters, $14.90.
Parathaas — 18-20 Bridge Road, Richmond VIC 3121
Down at number 18 on Bridge Road, the name tells you the speciality. A paratha is a flaky wheat flatbread cooked on a tawa, the flat griddle of North Indian kitchens, and the stuffed kind is a meal in itself. Its own site features the aloo pyaz parathaas, two pieces stuffed with potato and onion and made with desi ghee (clarified butter), served with yoghurt, onions and mint chutney, for $19.99. Around it sit butter chicken at $23.99, dal makhani (black lentils and kidney beans, slow-cooked) at $21.99, a two-samosa chaat at $15.99, and the bread basket: tawa garlic paratha $7.50, garlic naan $6.00.
Start with: aloo pyaz parathaas, $19.99.
Jai Ho Indian Restaurant — 205 Swan Street, Richmond VIC 3121
Follow Swan Street west out of Burnley and you reach Jai Ho, which also runs a branch in Hoppers Crossing. Its own menu tells the butter chicken story: the makhani sauce, it says, has its roots in Punjabi cuisine and was developed by the Moti Mahal restaurant in Delhi. Here it is a tomato, cashew and fenugreek gravy, $24.00 with chicken. A half tandoori chicken (four bone-in pieces from the clay oven) is $15.00, samosa chaat is $14.50, and garlic naan is $5.10. For a table of two or more, the Queen Banquet runs from pappadam, samosa and tandoori chicken through butter chicken, kadhai paneer, rice, naan and raita to dessert, at $39.50 a person.
Start with: the makhani sauce with chicken, $24.00. These are the dine-in prices on its own site; its takeaway ordering app may differ.
D’Tandoor — 353 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122
Across the river on Hawthorn’s Burwood Road, D’Tandoor takes pickup and delivery orders through its own site. A thali is a whole dinner on one tray: the non-veg thali ($22.50) brings butter chicken, lamb rogan josh, basmati rice, raita, salad and naan, and the veg thali ($20.50) swaps in paneer butter masala and dal makhani. Order à la carte and butter chicken is $24.50, dal makhani $19.50, biryani with a choice of vegetables or meat $18.50, and garlic naan $5.00.
Start with: the non-veg thali, $22.50.
Also nearby
Dosa Cafe at 332 Burwood Road, Hawthorn, is listed by the Australian Good Food Guide, DoorDash and OpenStreetMap, and its AGFG listing names the masala dosa, a crisp rice-and-lentil crepe around spiced potato, as what it is best known for. The website its listings point to did not load when we checked on 1 October 2026, so we could not read a menu of its own and it carries no prices here.
Quick answers
Is there an Indian restaurant in Burnley itself?
Not one we could find inside Burnley’s own boundaries. The suburb is small (794 residents at the 2021 Census) and is bounded by the Yarra and Burnley Park, so its nearest Indian kitchens are on Bridge Road and Swan Street in Richmond, which shares the 3121 postcode, and on Burwood Road in Hawthorn.
Where can I get Indian takeaway near Burnley?
D’Tandoor (353 Burwood Road, Hawthorn) takes pickup and delivery orders on its own site, and 3 Idiots (378 Bridge Road, Richmond) lists pickup on its online order page. D’Tandoor’s non-veg thali, $22.50, is a whole dinner on one tray.
Where is Indiaus Curry House?
At 462-464 Bridge Road, Richmond VIC 3121, according to its Uber Eats, DoorDash and Localsearch listings. We found no website or menu of its own, so this guide gives no prices for it; check a current listing before you order.
Does Jai Ho Richmond have a menu online?
Yes. Jai Ho’s own site publishes its Richmond dine-in menu with prices, including the makhani sauce (butter chicken) with chicken at $24.00, a half tandoori chicken at $15.00 and the Queen Banquet at $39.50 a person for two or more. Its takeaway ordering app may show different prices.
What is the cheapest dish on this list?
Leaving the breads aside, Jai Ho’s samosa chaat at $14.50, with 3 Idiots’ Wafer Balloon Busters close behind at $14.90. For a whole meal, D’Tandoor’s veg thali is $20.50.
How we checked
On 1 October 2026 we read each venue’s own website, menu page or ordering page, as raw page text or through a text reader, and copied every item and price exactly as printed. We confirmed each address at a second, independent source: the Bridge Road traders’ directory, the Australian Good Food Guide, OpenStreetMap, Localsearch or a delivery listing. Indiaus Curry House has no site of its own that we could find, so it is confirmed by three listings and carries no prices; delivery-app prices are never used here. Jai Ho’s prices come from the dine-in menu on its own site, because its ordering app does not load as readable text. We do not repeat star ratings or review counts. Population and language figures are from the ABS 2021 Census QuickStats for Burnley, and the suburb’s boundaries are from Wikipedia. The photos are illustrative, from Unsplash: they show the kind of dish, not the venue’s own food.
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Sources
- Indiaus Curry House: Uber Eats listing, DoorDash listing and Localsearch
- 3 Idiots: 3idiots.com.au, its menu and online order page; address also at the Bridge Road directory
- Parathaas: its own site at parathaas.square.site; address also at the Bridge Road directory
- Jai Ho Indian Restaurant: Richmond page and Richmond menu; address also at its ordering page and AGFG
- D’Tandoor: dtandoor.com.au; address also at OpenStreetMap
- Dosa Cafe: AGFG, DoorDash listing and OpenStreetMap
- Burnley population and languages: ABS 2021 Census QuickStats
- Burnley boundaries: Wikipedia
