What an Indian restaurant menu carries and charges, from the 118 menus of this kind we hold in Melbourne. Its cuisine, for a wider comparison: Indian, Nepalese and Sri Lankan.
Menu length
93 dishes
the median; the middle 80% list 22 to 187
Sections
12
on the median menu
The typical dish
$17.90
the median of each menu’s median price, across 117 menus
How long the menus are
Middle half of 118 menus: 55 to 119Median 93Scale stretched at the low end
What most of them carry
Share of menus listing itMedian price
Butter chicken$21.9961%, 72 menus. Middle half $18.50 to $25.95, across 71 menus pricing it
Dal makhani$1960%, 71 menus. Middle half $17.50 to $21.95, across 69 menus pricing it
Gulab jamun$760%, 71 menus. Middle half $5.99 to $8.90, across 67 menus pricing it
Garlic naan$4.9059%, 70 menus. Middle half $4 to $5.50, across 66 menus pricing it
Chicken tikka masala$2257%, 67 menus. Middle half $19.50 to $25.99, across 67 menus pricing it
Malai kofta$20.7054%, 64 menus. Middle half $18 to $24, across 63 menus pricing it
Chicken tikka$18.2553%, 62 menus. Middle half $15.50 to $20.50, across 60 menus pricing it
Palak paneer$21.9051%, 60 menus. Middle half $18 to $23, across 59 menus pricing it
Tandoori chicken$17.9950%, 59 menus. Middle half $15 to $22, across 58 menus pricing it
Cheese naan$747%, 55 menus. Middle half $6 to $8, across 54 menus pricing it
Mango lassi$646%, 54 menus. Middle half $5.50 to $8, across 54 menus pricing it
Raita$5.5046%, 54 menus. Middle half $4.50 to $6.50, across 54 menus pricing it
Samosa$9.9043%, 51 menus. Middle half $8 to $12, across 44 menus pricing it
Chicken biryani$2042%, 49 menus. Middle half $18.90 to $23, across 49 menus pricing it
Butter naan$4.9038%, 45 menus. Middle half $3.99 to $5.50, across 44 menus pricing it
A price is shown once at least 5 of these menus price the dish.
The sections they use
Desserts38%
Rice32%
Drinks31%
Breads23%
Entree23%
Section names as menus print them, folded together when they differ only in case or punctuation.
Your own menu
Give us your menu and we will set it against places like yours, dish by dish, with how many menus each answer rests on. It is free.
We read menus from venues’ own websites, as they publish them, between 13 and 16 October 2026. Each menu counts once, prices as printed. A chain’s branches that serve the same menu count as one menu. We never name a venue: every figure here is a median, a range or a share, with the number of menus it rests on.