Where to Find Great Indian Food in Austin
Austin, Texas — updated August 21, 2026
Austin's strongest Indian cooking sits along a single north-side road: Parmer Lane and the blocks around it hold Chettinad dosas, pure-vegetarian thalis and Mumbai chaat. Six places, ranked by how settled their reputations are.
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Most of Austin's Indian cooking has collected on the north side, and much of it on one road: Parmer Lane and its cross streets account for three of the six restaurants below. The range there runs from Chettinad-style mutton and fish curries to Mumbai chaat counters and pure-vegetarian dosa kitchens. Ranked here by rating and by how many reviews stand behind it.
1. Sangam Chettinad Indian Cuisine
The most thoroughly tested Indian restaurant in the city: a 4.7 average across nearly 18,000 reviews, a figure that leaves little room for doubt. The kitchen cooks Chettinad, the pepper-heavy cuisine of southern Tamil Nadu, so the menu reaches past the usual list to mutton pepper fry, meen curry, naatu kozhi and Chettinad chicken curry. The dosa section is the other reason to come, with masala dosa and Mysore masala dosa, plus idli with vada for a lighter order and beetroot halwa at the end. It runs on a split schedule, roughly 11:30am to 2:30pm and again from 5:30pm, so mid-afternoon arrivals are out of luck.
2. Suprabhat
A pure-vegetarian kitchen on West Parmer with a 4.7 rating over more than 4,500 reviews, which puts it in proven territory rather than promising. Curries, biryani and thalis make up the core of the menu, and the restaurant also runs dosa parties on site. Weekends start earlier than weekdays: doors at 10am Friday through Sunday, 11am Monday through Thursday, useful if you want a South Indian breakfast before the lunch rush lands. Listings flag it as gluten-free friendly, and family meal portions are available for takeaway.
3. Bombay Street Food
The chaat specialist of the group, and the place to go when you want snacks rather than a curry-and-rice dinner. Vada pav, samosa chaat, raj kachori, dahi papdi chaat, bhel puri, dahi bhalle, dabeli and pav bhaji all appear on the menu, with ras malai for dessert. The 4.7 rating rests on more than 1,900 reviews, fewer than the two above but enough to call the score settled. It opens at noon and runs to 10pm on weekdays, which makes it a late-lunch option rather than a breakfast one. It sits on Research Boulevard, north of the Parmer cluster.
4. New Sitara Indian Cuisine & Bar
Hyderabadi cooking, described by the restaurant as the royal table of the Nizams, with a full bar attached. The 4.6 average comes from more than 4,300 reviews, so the rating is well established even if it sits a notch below the top three. Weekday service splits into an 11am to 2:30pm lunch and a 5pm to 10:30pm dinner, with a separate weekend brunch service from 11:30am to 3:30pm on Saturday and Sunday. It is in Wells Branch, off the I-35 corridor rather than the Parmer strip, which makes it the easier drive from the north-central neighborhoods.
5. Desilicious Cafe - Indian Pure Vegetarian/ Vegan Restaurant
South Indian vegetarian and vegan cooking on West Parmer, at 4.5 across 790 reviews. That is the thinnest record on this list, so treat the score as good but less tested than the restaurants above. One Yelp listing shows the location as closed and its online ordering page is currently not taking orders, so call ahead on 512-616-1212 before making the drive. When it is running, the draw is straightforward South Indian comfort food with everything on the menu meat-free.
6. Bombay Express
Included for its hours more than its rating: 8am to midnight daily, with a Saturday breakfast service from 8am to 11am, which no one else here matches. The 4.0 average across more than 1,400 reviews is the weakest on this list, and consistency is clearly the trade-off for the long day. Chhole puri is the most ordered dish, with paneer curry served with roti or puri close behind, and a meal special runs between 11am and 8:45pm. It is on the North I-35 frontage, convenient if you are coming off the highway rather than crossing town.