Shalimar Indian Restaurant

Best Known For

Punjabi lamb curry, with vegetables, onions and coconut in a spicy sauce.

Serving Brighton diners since 1981, Shalimar Indian Restaurant is arguably Melbourne's longest-standing Indian restaurant. Over the years, this establishment – graced with elegant gold chandeliers, Indian pictures and ornaments - has become synonymous with warm, accommodating service and authentic North Indian cuisine. Rich, complex curries and tandoori dishes cooked in a traditional clay oven number among Shalimar Indian Restaurant's specialties; think dishes like tender goat curry in a spicy sauce, best enjoyed with steamed basmati rice and papadums. Seafood lovers may opt for prawn masala with mushrooms, capsicum and onions in Chef’s special creamy sauce, before cooling things down with a delicious dessert of mango kulfi, or gulab jamun and vanilla ice cream.