The best fish vindaloo and saag paneer ever. I wonder why they are under 4stars. This place deserve to be rated higher. Good price compare to quality of food. I like modern atmosphere and good selection of drinks too.
Great spot on racecourse road & a good fallback option if you don’t feel like laksa king. Always had good experiences. 4 stars as the serving size isn’t very big so you need a few things to fill you up
Really good curries and naan bread! The restaurant is pretty cute, dimly lit and well set out. The prices were on point, super cheap costing just $34 for two people! in terms of service it was slightly lacking but easily overlooked for the quality food!!
The Wandering Reviewer
+4
Grabbed some takeaway while on the run. I tried ringing in advance but the phone rang out so dropped in. Order taken quickly by staff and meal was prepared in under 10 minutes. Although the cafe is average looking on the outside it’s clean inside. Delicious meal, chicken very tender and sauce fabulous. Curry was very good and was extra happy with the portion size. Thank you.
Delicious food. Ordered the chicken vindaloo thali at spice level no4. No regrets. Decided to sneak in a cheeky side of garlic naan for good measure. Yummos. Great hospitality and service from the owner. Can't ask for more from your local joints! :)
This is our go to place whenever my wife and I crave Indian food. Great tasting food, good spice and good portion size. Service is friendly as well. Definitely a must try if you want to go for Indian food
The food was delicious, great value for money, staff was friendly and attentive. Great addition to the neighborhood and highly recommended =)
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Quite hungry while on our quest to find a nice house, we ended -up eating here....and were quite happy by the end of our meal. We are usually skeptical to try Indian food outside because most of the times they have failed to impress us, but Curry Cafe Canteen is the closest a restaurant comes to serving authentic Indian (Punjabi) food.
In the afternoon one can only order a meal from their meal options which is quite sufficiently elaborate. Though, they do serve few things from the A-La-Carte section. Since I wasn't too hungry they made an exception and made Malai Kofta for me.
We chose to order Mango Lassi, Veg Kofta with Garlic Butter Naan and two meals consisting of common items such as papad, Kali Daal, mix Veg Salad, Raita (Indian veggies in savory yogurt), rice
a choice of Veg / Non - Veg dish and we chose Lamb Rogan Josh and Butter Chicken for each meal, One has to pay extra for additional dishes that one needs to order.
Veg Kofta was succulent and creamy and spicy (on request)...exactly how I like it. Garlic Naan was thin and crispy, exactly how I had requested them to make. Butter chicken consisted of a perfectly cooked chicken soaked in a buttery sweet / spicy/ savory gravy. What was more surprising was the Lamb Rogan Josh. Though not authentic, lamb was cooked to perfection and was quite moist. Rogan Josh gravy seemed more like a kadhai gravy but no complains at all.
Mango Lassi was a bit sour for our palate and thus did not like it much.
There other minuses of this place as well. Since they don't have the license to serve liquor or beer inside the restaurant, thus beer are only for takeaways. They don't accept cards as a mode of payment too (which was a bit inconvenient).
Attendant was very friendly and accommodating.Portions are quite good for the price one pays. What is noteworthy about the menu is the Meal section. A single meal is suffice to feed a single person and is definitely an inexpensive deal.....value for money for sure.
Could have rated them 3.5 due to certain shortcomings but then it's not fair for the food to go unnoticed among all the discomforts.
Amazing curry! We got the butter chicken , lamb rogan josh and the pumpkin masala- all curries were delicious ! A must try for all locals in Kensington and Flemington !! we will be back !
Very decently priced Indian food. Generous servings and packed with flavor! 👍🏼 Would definitely go back again 😊 Note: even for the chilli die hards, go for a “mild” vindaloo as the “hot” vindaloo absolutely blew my head off! Other curries were perfectly spiced when ordered “hot”.
Went to Flemington for dinner on a Saturday night and everything was really busy, except for this place. Didn't expect the small curries to be so flavoursome and filling. I really like the naan and the thumbs up cola
My experience with this restaurant was special. I have tried most of indian restaurants in west melbourne and in CBD But Curry Cafe Canteen stands on top for me. I always missed good quality home made food in melbourne until the day I was introduced to THALI (in 2019). Since then my dinner and lunch was fixed here. It has been 3 years but still I can not have enough of Thalis even though I was having it 5 to 6 times in a week. Sadly I can not have it anymore as I am moving out.
One time I ordered thali from uber eats one hour prior to closing but there was no uber eats driver to delivery my order and restaurant was about to close, rather than cancelling my uber eats order, Chef came to my apartment to deliver that order. I mean who does that.
Service 5/5, Food quality and quantity 5/5, Huygen wise 5/5 (kitchen looks cleaner than most of other Indian restaurants), Kitchen and front staff 5/5.
Have been coming to this local for the past year or so, for their curries and samosa chaat. Curries are fresh and not at all oily (I'm surprised by other negative reviews), very spicy more than your average Indian joint.
Cash only unless you order online.
Grabbed some takeaway while on the run. I tried ringing in advance but the phone rang out so dropped in. Order taken quickly by staff and meal was prepared in under 10 minutes. Although the cafe is average looking on the outside it’s clean inside. Delicious meal, chicken very tender and sauce fabulous. Curry was very good and was extra happy with the portion size. Thank you.
Very nice place, my new favourite Indian in Flemington. Food is fantastic and servings are generous. We had 1 entree, 2 mains, 1 nan and 1 rice, and we ended up bringing home some. Good selection of vegetarian dishes as well as chicken and lamb, but no beef, with craft beers in cans as a bonus amd very reasonably priced. The place is pretty small, worth calling ahead just to be sure. Staff is very friendly. Only mildly negative side, cash only payment.
Finally, a word of caution, careful with spicy food. I asked for a hot madras and almost melted off the chair, go for medium. Well worth trying.
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