What a South Indian restaurant menu carries and charges, from the 11 menus of this kind we hold in Melbourne. Its cuisine, for a wider comparison: Indian, Nepalese and Sri Lankan.
Menu length
111 dishes
the median; the middle 80% list 42 to 311
Sections
14
on the median menu
The typical dish
$14.95
the median of each menu’s median price, across 11 menus
How long the menus are
Middle half of 11 menus: 67 to 146Median 111Scale stretched at the low end
What most of them carry
Share of menus listing itMedian price
Masala dosa$16.9791%, 10 menus. Middle half $14.50 to $17.95, across 10 menus pricing it
Idly$8.9873%, 8 menus. Middle half $3.95 to $9.99, across 8 menus pricing it
Gulab jamun$6.9564%, 7 menus. Middle half $5 to $7.95, across 6 menus pricing it
Sambar idly$1264%, 7 menus. Middle half $10.95 to $12, across 6 menus pricing it
Mango lassi$564%, 7 menus. Middle half $4.95 to $5, across 7 menus pricing it
Papdi chaat$11.9955%, 6 menus. Middle half $10.95 to $11.99, across 6 menus pricing it
Samosa chaat$13.9755%, 6 menus. Middle half $12.99 to $13.99, across 6 menus pricing it
Cheese dosa$15.4755%, 6 menus. Middle half $14 to $15.99, across 6 menus pricing it
Paneer dosa$17.4855%, 6 menus. Middle half $11.95 to $18, across 6 menus pricing it
Sambar vada$11.5055%, 6 menus. Middle half $10 to $12, across 6 menus pricing it
Chicken biryani$19.9946%, 5 menus. Middle half $19.95 to $20.95, across 5 menus pricing it
Butter chicken$21.9546%, 5 menus. Middle half $17.95 to $23.95, across 5 menus pricing it
Ghee dosa$1346%, 5 menus. Middle half $10.95 to $13.95, across 5 menus pricing it
Plain dosa$11.9946%, 5 menus. Middle half $9.95 to $14, across 5 menus pricing it
Goli soda$646%, 5 menus. Middle half $5.99 to $6.95, across 5 menus pricing it
A price is shown once at least 5 of these menus price the dish.
The sections they use
Desserts46%
Dosa36%
Indo chinese36%
Drinks27%
Menu27%
Sides27%
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.