DeepakIndian Restaurant.

What is Deepak Indian Restaurant known for?

Deepak is known as the Indian shopfront at shop 2, 56 Nicholson, the door you hit after Coles when you still wanted heat and bread. The fascia prints the name and the 03 number. The WashRoom laundromat shares the same 56. Maps still shows blue fitout sheets on the glass: a Melbourne sitting new enough that nobody has written a critic card for it. You smell detergent from next door, then onion and garam masala if the pass is on.

The house site names a chef called Deepak: hospitality training, kitchen years in five-star hotels in India, then the Maharaja adjectives every curry homepage borrows. Treat that as shop copy. In early September 2026 a Melbourne POS company posted that the team had run a Queensland venue for more than fifteen years and was opening the Footscray chapter with dine-in, takeaway, and spice levels on the ticket. Table 7 eating while three takeaway bags wait at the counter. That is the room this suburb actually got.

You do not come here because Time Out ranked it. Time Out, Broadsheet and The Westsider still send Indian searchers to Aangan on 3012 Barkly. Pandus at 351 Barkly is the 3011 kitchen already documented for dosa and Indo-Chinese. Deepak is what you eat when the plaza was the errand and the stomach refused another supermarket roast chicken. That is not an insult. The question is whether the korma is cooked, not whether a magazine found the shop.

English is what you can assume at the counter until someone tells you otherwise. No staff language is published. The till is built for spice notes and allergen flags. Banh Xeo Tay Do is arcade Vietnamese at 62, closed Tuesday, crepes not curry. Mr West at 106 is beer and bottles, no kitchen. None of those rooms will give you seekh kebab. Look for the Indian fascia and sit if the tandoor is lit.

What should you order at Deepak Indian Restaurant?

Order the mixed platter if you wanted the table to start talking, then a curry and garlic naan, and say the heat before the ticket prints. The September 2026 till photographs a mixed platter of samosa, chicken tikka, barrah lamb, and seekh kebab. That is a share plate, not a solo lunch if you still wanted a main. The samosa should arrive hot enough to punish impatience. The kebab is the charcoal argument. Barrah is the chop. If the platter is not on, ask what the tandoor is actually doing.

Chicken tikka masala is the dish the installer used to explain how this kitchen takes a ticket: spice, extras, rice, bread. The house page still names lamb korma, mango chicken, saffron rice, garlic naan. Ask what is on tonight. Ask mild, medium, or hot like you mean it. A kitchen that dumps one base gravy into every bowl will not survive the second spoon.

The bread list on the till is the other plot. Garlic naan is the one the house comments keep circling, blistered and wet with ghee if they are doing it properly. Peshwari if you wanted sweet coconut leaking into dinner. Keema if you wanted minced meat in the bread. Vegetarian sits as its own group next to chicken, lamb and goat, beef, seafood. Do not come for dosa. Do not come for bhuna. This pass is curry, bread, and the tandoor snacks if they fired it.

Lunch is a short window. Twelve to two, Tuesday to Saturday, on the house clock. Arrive at 2:15 and you are eating Coles chicken. Dinner from five, Tuesday to Sunday. Monday is dark. Licensed status is not clearly published. Mr West is the Nicholson bottle shop that actually exists. Confirm at the door. Bring a backup, not an assumption.

Hours, payment and queues at Deepak Indian Restaurant

House hours are lunch Tuesday to Saturday 12pm to 2pm, dinner Tuesday to Sunday from 5pm to late, closed Monday. Phone (03) 9309 6509. The official site is https://deepakindianrestaurant.com.au/. That split is what the contact page still prints.

Order Eats prints 11am to 10pm at 56 Nicholson and showed Closed when checked on a Sunday evening in September 2026, inside the dinner window the homepage still advertises. Uber Eats listed the same shop closed as of 23 August 2026. Believe the house split until the phone tells you the widget won. Walk-in. The till has EFTPOS and cash buttons. There is no critic queue. After dark peel to Barkly or Hopkins with the leftovers.

If the shutter is down, you still have Indian food in this directory. Pandus at 351 Barkly. Aangan at 559 if you meant the 3012 sit-down. Dosa Hut at 604 for the fermented crepe. Do not send a Monday hunger here. Call first if the sitting mattered. A new room will shuffle public holidays.

How do you get to Deepak Indian Restaurant in Footscray?

Walk from Footscray station toward Footscray Plaza and find 2/56 Nicholson on the plaza side, not on Hopkins and not at 604 Barkly. The plaza is 18 Albert. Coles and Kmart are the magnets. 56 is the block with the laundromat. Shop 2 is the Indian fascia. You can do this walk with shopping bags. That is the point of the door.

Albert Street parking is the plaza deck, not the Irving market boom, and not a reason to leave the car on Nicholson Mall. Pay the deck, walk the short block, eat. After you finish, leave via Barkly or Hopkins if it is dark. Daylight is fine. A Sunday lunch next to Coles is fine. A midnight wander through the arcade is a different suburb.

Banh Xeo Tay Do is Unit 4/62, inside a Nicholson arcade, closed Tuesday. Mr West is 106, a drink after if Monday did not kill both clocks. Green Valley is the grocer people mash into this strip. None of those are this curry. West Footscray station is Dosa Hut and Aangan. If a friend said Indian Footscray, ask which street.

What do people mix up about Deepak Indian Restaurant?

They follow a Queensland listing, a 07 number, or a best-Indian search, then stand on Nicholson angry that the plate is not a dosa.

• 2/56 Nicholson Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Phone (03) 9309 6509.
• Lunch Tue-Sat 12pm-2pm. Dinner Tue-Sun from 5pm. Closed Monday on the house site.
• Not Dosa Hut at 604 Barkly, West Footscray 3012. Not Pandus at 351 Barkly. Not Aangan at 559.
• Not Diamond Street, Cooroy QLD. That room closed in April 2025.
• Plaza-side convenience next to Coles. Ask spice. Ask what is actually on.

Questions people ask next

Where is Deepak Indian Restaurant?

Deepak Indian Restaurant is at 2/56 Nicholson Street, Footscray VIC 3011, plaza side, next to Footscray Plaza. Footscray station is the nearest train. Albert Street is the parking. It is not Hopkins and it is not 604 Barkly.

What are Deepak Indian Restaurant hours?

Lunch Tuesday to Saturday 12pm-2pm, dinner Tuesday to Sunday from 5pm, closed Monday on the house site. Call (03) 9309 6509. Order Eats prints 11am-10pm and showed Closed when checked 2026-09-20. Last checked 2026-09-20.

Is Deepak in Footscray the same as Deepak in Cooroy?

Same brand, different state. The team ran a Queensland venue for more than 15 years. Sunshine Coast News, January 2026, says the Cooroy Deepak closed in April 2025 and Tandoori Flames took the Diamond Street fitout. This listing is 2/56 Nicholson, Footscray 3011 only. Do not ring 07 numbers for a 3011 table.

Does Deepak take bookings or only walk-ins?

FrabPOS says they installed integrated table bookings with Order Eats in September 2026. Walk-in is still the plaza-side default. Call (03) 9309 6509 if the table mattered. Do not treat Uber Eats as the dining room. That card listed closed as of 23 August 2026.

Where we checked

• Deepak Indian Restaurant
• Deepak Indian Restaurant: contact
• FrabPOS: Footscray POS install, 5 Sept 2026
• FrabPOS: Indian restaurant POS write-up
• Order Eats: Deepak Indian Restaurant
• Uber Eats: Deepak Indian Restaurant Footscray
• Sunshine Coast News: Cooroy Deepak closed April 2025

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Footscray Plaza

Albert deck. Coles and Kmart. Sunday when Irving dies.

18 Albert Street, Footscray VIC 3011

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Banh Xeo Tay Do

The crepe hiding in a Nicholson arcade. Wrap it or waste the trip.

Unit 4/62 Nicholson Street, Footscray VIC 3011

Drink

Mr West

Nicholson bar. Bottle shop opens first. Closed Monday.

106 Nicholson Street, Footscray VIC 3011