Annalakshmi in Perth, Western Australia

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Telephone:	+61 8 9221 3003
Website:	www.annalakshmi.com.au
Address:	Jetty 4 Barrack St, Perth, Western Australia, 6000 Perth City
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:	0.2 miElizabeth Quay 0.3 mi10079 0.4 mi10075
Categories:	Indian Vegetarian

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Takes Reservations	No
Delivery	No
Take-out	No
Accepted Cards	Credit, Debit
Good For	Lunch
Parking	Street
Good for Kids	Yes
Good for Groups	Yes
Attire	Casual

Ambience	Casual
Noise Level	Average
Alcohol	No
Outdoor Seating	Yes
Wi-Fi	No
Has TV	No
Waiter Service	No
Caters	Yes

Today

Today	12:00 pm – 2:00 pm 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Closed now
Local time (Perth)	02:06 Saturday, 31 May 2025

Business hours

Monday	12:00 pm – 2:00 pm 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Tuesday	12:00 pm – 2:00 pm 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Wednesday	12:00 pm – 2:00 pm 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Thursday	12:00 pm – 2:00 pm 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Friday	12:00 pm – 2:00 pm 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday	12:00 pm – 2:00 pm 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Sunday	12:00 pm – 2:00 pm 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

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20 reviews of Annalakshmi

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Andjelka J.

Place rating: 5
Perth, Australia

I could eat this food everyday for the rest of my life. Big call — yes. But Indian vegetarian food cooked with love with stunning views of the river sunset, eaten in a community atmosphere fill the love cup.
A pay-what-you-can ethos shouldn’t deter you. The food is top quality and the chefs and volunteers truly do master the Ayurvedic cuisine.
The rotating menu of 5 – 8 dishes are served to you on a metal thali plate and are all vegetarian, vegan and gluten free. On this occasion I enjoyed cumin rice, tomato rasam, potato masala, stir fry cabbage and vegetables, mung Dahl, zucchini curry, a spicy clear soup and my all time favourite — chickpea dosa pancakes.
Don’t overload your plate as you are welcome to go back for seconds, and nobody appreciates food wastage.
The dining area has been refurbished with new tables, chairs and carpet. The jaw dropping view of the river and coastal sunset remains. Show your gratitude as you pay what you feel on the way out (no judgement) and bring your friends with you next time to experience this Perth gem.

Kedar R.

Place rating: 5
Perth, Australia

This vegetarian indian restaurant run for non profit. Food is not amazing but cause is good.

Hannah B.

Place rating: 5
West Hobart, Australia

This is probably my favourite place to eat in the city. Beautifully decorated, right on the river, delicious food and lovely staff. Everyone who works here is a volunteer and you pay by donation

Ragu M.

Place rating: 5
Wheelers Hill, Australia

Amazing views, unconditional support to the community for more than 20 years. Beauty about this place is that, all you can eat and all you can pay as you wish. Talking to the manager I realised that the place is in need of support community. Please go, dine and contribute to keep the good work these guys are doing. Pay some reasonable money for your food.

L S.

Place rating: 5
New York, NY

The food may be four stars, but the experience is five stars, if not more.
Annalakshmi is an unique experience. Their tagline is «where a meal is a cultural experience», and that’s fairly true. It’s a little bit of a tourist sight, a decent vege restaurant, and an self-introspection experience all rolled up in one.
The food was good, nothing spectacular, but very good, basic vege buffet entrees. Their rice pudding was very good. There’s tea, juice, and water. The view of the water is very nice indeed.
A lot of tourists come here. It’s a fairly unique idea — eat all you want, pay what you want. It sounds flaky, but it is quite an exercise in introspection and it makes one think about society, community, and charity. Do you pay what (you think) is fair? Do you pay what you can, even if it’s too little or too much? How is this experience different from taxation or a restaurant with set prices? Well, the questions go on and on. Needless to say, I loved it.

Rob D.

Place rating: 2
Perth, Australia

Basic but tasty and healthy vegetarian buffet food in a fantastic location on the top floor of the jetty 4 building at Barrack St Jetty. It’s cheap and kind of feels it. No labels so not only do you have to guess what the food is, you also have to ask which is vegan and which is vegetarian. The place could be kept a bit cleaner, too. Even my home has less dust!
The few staff I interacted with were rather surly which perhaps is due to the fact that they might have to close down, soon. Hardly surprising, really, as it’s a pay-as-you-like community-feel restaurant in an up-market location. Riverside views usually cost a packet. In my opinion, they’d be wise to give up the fancy views and move to a lower rental place. That way they could stay open and all the money that they save in rent etc could be put to better causes such as charities.
I sat outside next to the windows and while I was eating, baby spiders started parachuting down from their web above me. They were very hard to see as they were really tiny. I hope I didn’t eat any before I saw them and moved out of their way!
Hopefully, they’ll switch to vegan one day and be totally cruelty-free. The restaurant, not the spiders although that would be good, too!

Jacqui E.

Place rating: 4
Australia

Don’t come here expecting table service. I’ll give you the heads up now, this «Pay as you feel» vegetarian Indian restaurant is nothing short of a school canteen.
If your canteen was awesome.
This place is on the river by the bell tower and serves up pretty much the same food every day for whatever price you’re willing to pay. It’s all veggie, they have 2 kinds of rice, a small soup, bombay potatoes, a zucchini curry, a cabbage sabzi, red been curry and a small pancake type thing designed for mopping up sauce. You help yourself to orange cordial, tea, coffee or water and sit at communal tables with golf club maroon table cloths. You line up to get given a metal plate to pile up your food thali style. Go back as often as you like.
Look it’s not fancy. It’s anything but. However the food is comforting, it’s tasty, it feels like it’s doing you good, and you’re doing something good by eating there. If you’re not willing to talk to a random hippy, a couchsurfer, an elderly couple, some young uni students or arty folk in line or at your table then maybe don’t go. But I really love the community vibe in there and I think you should all go and experience it just once.

Natalie D.

Place rating: 4
Perth, Australia

Annalakshmi needs your help to survive!
The restaurant serves home-cooked vegetarian Indian food for lunch and dinner. It is buffet style, so help yourself and even go back for seconds! Payment is a donation (of your choosing) to this not-for-profit operation, often about $ 10. They accept cash or card, which is very handy.
This local institution has suffered a loss of business with the Elizabeth Quay developments, so show your support by stopping by :) You will get a good feed and a warm fuzzy feeling.
As a bonus, there are incredible views of the Swan River if you sit outside. Some of the best real estate in Perth, at the heart of Barrack Square.

Connie H.

Place rating: 4
Washington, DC

Let me start by saying that I love the concept of donation-based restaurants. While the food may not be amazing, it is still pretty good here. Vegetarian all-you-can-eat, you had me there!
Also, if you come on a warm night it’s pretty sweet to sit outside and see the river in front of you.
With concepts like this I would love to give five stars. However, I was turned off that when I gave my donation at the end there was someone, at least on the night I went, who kept track of what everyone was paying. Awkward.

Erin H.

Place rating: 5
Fremantle, Perth, Australia

Lovely homey welcoming vibe, feels healthy in every way you think of it. It isn’t fancy food, but solid basic Indian veg fare buffet with a very casual ambiance overlooking the water. Chill place for a cheap meal that will leave you feeling happy. I’ll be back.

Noshes A.

Place rating: 5
Perth, Australia

They serve authentic Southern and Northern Indian dishes. Just the right blend of spice and aroma. Their rice is to die for. It tastes amazeballs!

Grace M.

Place rating: 5
Auckland, New Zealand

Delicious vegetarian food and you eat what you like and pay what you feel :) very wholesome.

Mariea C.

Place rating: 5
Perth, Australia

We’d a lovely meal here last night, once again. As usual the Indian mammys and grannys cooked their hearts out and the food as always tasted amazing. Highly recommend for something different. As it is buffet style you can eat as much as you want but they ask that you only take as much as you will eat, so as not to waste food.

Godrik V.

Place rating: 5
Perth, Australia

Many people spout that this is not a fine dining restaurant, but I think in earnest, why not? When you invite yourself to a place as divine as this, to fill your belly on a hearty and wholesome home cooked meal, and in an atmosphere that is as comforting and as romantic outside as any fine dining restaurant, you can’t but feel wonderful about it all. Annalakshmi takes you whenever your whim pulls you, not by when you received your payslip, and in my case it was the spontaneous draw of the summer night and I couldn’t think of a better location to be at.
This is fine dining, and I can’t help but to think of the stuffy fine dining experiences I have had in formal occasions, with formal people, uncomfortable attire, and the sickening worry of the hole that I will leave behind in my wallet on the way out. Not that it doesn’t have its place of course, but when I sit back and compare the two I could almost laugh at the silly games we play with ourselves in our pursuit for happiness, a good meal, and what we think is necessary to pay for that. Let Annalakshmi be a place where you decide on your own what you think of it, but I promise if you have a sense of adventure and spirit, it might just give more than you bargained for.

Tamara C.

Place rating: 5
Perth, Australia

I love Annalakshmi. I find the people who work here lovely and polite.
You can see a range of people dining here — a real feeling of community alongside yummy food.
It does have a little spice and no meat but you can really leave full and satisfied.
There is no drinking at Annalakshmi and you pay by donation.

Garrett Q.

Place rating: 4
Perth, Australia

Great concept
Pros
Location — lovely views looking over the water from upstairs.
Food — Tasty and well proportioned. Good variety of choices.
Concept — Brilliant.
Cons
No labels on meals… It’s small but it could be handy.
Could have signs which explain ethos or elaborate on the initiative or maybe who it supports. Why offer this type of restaurant?
As it is unique why not elaborate on why? Maybe some information could be on each table or even picked up at the door — just has to be a photocopy’d a4.
My only other partying thought was that it could be victim to those not willing to make any contribution.

Lucinda W.

Place rating: 4
Perth, Australia

Annalakshmi is right on the river and has the most amazing views– especially if you get there around sunset. It is a vegetarian Indian restaurant with a buffet-style set up where you line up with a silver tray and pile up your plate. You can go back for seconds, thirds, as much as you like. The food is a mix of different curries, soups, salads and ‘pancake’ style bread. There is water and juice available as well
This place has a unique concept where you pay whatever you feel the meal deserves so you can pay from 5c up to $ 50! Every time I go I usually pay at least $ 10 but if you are falling short of that you will never be judge by the people working here.
This is a place I frequent often with my friends. Its great for a cheap, tasty meal out.

Sheila G.

Place rating: 4
Las Vegas, NV

Sittin’ on the dock of the bay in Perth, Australia. Wonderin’ where to go for dinner. Hooray, there’s free wifi. Check Unilocal.Annalakshmi. Right above where were sitting. Don’t bother to read the reviews, just go check it out. Oops, first floor is the kitchen. Go upstairs. Menu? None. Old Indian gentleman standing by a low table inside the front door of a cavernous space full of tables. Fabulous view of the Swan River from big windows at back leading to a patio. What’s going on???
The guy tells us that it’s all vegetarian buffet, eat as much as you want, and pay what you think it’s worth or what you can afford. Amazing!
Decent selection of curried vegetables, naan, salad, enough tasty food to stuff one’s belly three times over. Juice and tea to wash it down. Sweets to finish.
One meaning of «anna» in Hindi is «food.» Lakshmi is the goddess of prosperity, wealth, purity, generosity, and the embodiment of beauty, grace and charm. And Annalakshmi is the Goddess of Abundance. Everything is cooked, served, and maintained by volunteers. The concept was started by a Hindu monk who left India and started the concept of Annalakshmi, The Indian Vegetarian Restaurant, in Malaysia, which later opened in India, Singapore and Perth. The proceeds help the underprivileged in India via The Temple of Service, providing free food and medical services.
We’re unlikely to return to Perth, but we hope our future travels will take us to another Annalakshmi Vegetarian Restaurant. We won’t hesitate.

Andrew N.

Place rating: 4
Perth, Australia

How could you not love a restaurant that has goodwill at the heart of it’s ethos. With it’s «eat as much as you want and pay what you think it’s worth» philosophy Annalakshmi is a great place to drop by for a lovely authentic vegetarian curry.
If you go in not expecting a gourmet meal, but to be nourished you wont go away disappointed. This has to be the number 1 of great value place to eat in Perth.

Claire H.

Place rating: 5
Sydney, Australia

All you can eat Indian, pay what you want and some of the best waterfront views in Perth; it almost seems too good to be true. Well believe it guys, this is the most generous eatery you fill find in Perth.
The restaurant is set out buffet-style and the food is all Vegetarian Indian that doesn’t compromise on flavour. It’s run by volunteers who cook the spicy foods in the kitchen each day.
I piled my plate high with tasty mixed curries, papadums, sauces and desserts, went back for seconds, and only paid $ 10.
It’s not unusual to see large groups of friends here, and there’s ample seating to accommodate such crowds.
My advice is to come for dinner and find a spot outside on the verandah that overlooks the Swan River; the scenery is beautiful and quiet. it’s a bit of an unlocked secret.