🍛 Best butter chicken in Australia

14 cities ranked by the strength of their best butter chicken. Follow any city through to its full ranked list.

● Updated September 2026

The verdict: on the numbers, Brisbane has Australia’s strongest butter chicken — led by Punjabi Palace (4.4★ across 2,570 Google reviews).

#	City	Its best butter chicken	Rating	Reviews
1	Brisbane	Punjabi Palace South Brisbane	4.4★	2,570
2	Darwin	Darwin Tandoor Darwin City	4.9★	1,624
3	Gold Coast	Foodie Indiya Nerang	4.7★	381
4	Hobart	Indian Culture Battery Point	4.6★	590
5	Newcastle	Spice Affairs Kapoor's Authentic Indian Restaurant Lambton	4.8★	1,566
6	Wollongong	Heavenly Indian Restaurant CBD	5★	429
7	Adelaide	BOLLYWOOD CBD	4.9★	131
8	Geelong	Pizza and Mandi House CBD	4.8★	813
9	Perth	Chakra Restaurant Inglewood	4.7★	1,794
10	Sunshine Coast	Thali Dhaba Maroochydore Maroochydore	4.7★	942
11	Sydney	The Spice Room CBD	4.6★	3,877
12	Cairns	Indian Brothers Restaurant Cairns City	4.5★	3,350
13	Melbourne	Aangan Footscray West Footscray	4★	3,310
14	Canberra	Spice Affair Indian Cuisine Canberra Casey	4.6★	849

How this national table is built: it is not a separate opinion. Each city contributes the venue that currently tops its own butter chicken ranking, and the cities are then ordered by that venue’s score — review strength above a 3.8 baseline weighted by review volume, plus community mentions where we hold them. Cities are only listed where we actually rank the dish, so an absent city means no ranking yet, not a bad one. Rebuilt weekly.

City by city: Brisbane · Darwin · Gold Coast · Hobart · Newcastle · Wollongong · Adelaide · Geelong · Perth · Sunshine Coast · Sydney · Cairns · Melbourne · Canberra.