The Tonny Takeaway shopfront on Mangan Street with the awning down
Eat in or takeaway, Tongala

The corner of Mangan Street where lunch actually tastes like something

Homemade potato cakes, steak sandwiches people drive back for, burgers off the grill, salad rolls made fresh every morning and proper coffee. Open from half seven, six days a week.

4.4 from 119 Google reviewsFresh options made dailyLoyalty card in store
Homemade potato cakesSteak sandwich with the lotFlake and blue grenadierSalad rolls made freshSouvlakisFamily packsProper coffeeChips with gravy
A burger in an open box beside a box of hot chips on the timber table in the shop
What Tongala keeps ordering

A hundred things on the board, and the town has its favourites

Read the reviews and the same two items come up again and again. That is the honest measure of a country takeaway: not what it says about itself, but what people order twice.

1

The potato cakes

Four separate Google reviews single them out by name, and one customer went back for seconds in the same sitting. Keus potato cakes, two dollars, and worth ordering two.

2

The steak sandwich

Plain or with the lot. One visitor called theirs possibly the best ever, and another just said great steak sanga, which around here means the same thing.

3

Fresh made every morning

Salad rolls, sandwiches and wraps are built on the day, not bought in. The cabinet gets filled before the doors open at half seven.

The fresh cabinet with croissants, packed sandwiches, wraps, slices and macaroons

Wraps, salad rolls and sandwiches go in the cabinet before the doors open.

Gluten free macaroons, brookies, slices and rum balls share the shelf with the croissants.

Nick and Averly

New owners, same corner, a fresh start

Tonny Takeaway sits on Mangan Street looking straight across at the park, in the middle of Tongala. Nick and Averly took the shop on as its new owners, spent their first weeks in store learning how the place runs, and then set about making it theirs.

The shop was repainted in the sage green you see on the awning, the panelling and the screens out the front. New counters went in, the hot food bar was rebuilt, and the tables outside went up so people can sit on the footpath with a coffee and watch the street go by.

What did not change is the job: feeding a country town properly, from half past seven in the morning until eight at night, six days a week.

4.4

from 119 Google reviews

7 days

open every day of the week

12.5 hrs

on the go, Monday to Saturday

The shop's logo mounted in timber on the green panelling behind the counter

The mark on the back wall, the same one on the awning and the screens out front.

In their words

4.4 stars from 119 people who ate here

Straight from Google, word for word.

We recently travelled through Tongala on the silo and street art trail and popped into Tonny Takeaway for lunch. We all LOVED it. Best country town cafe food we've had in years. My steak sandwich with the lot was possibly the best ever. The hamburgers were better than any we've had anywhere in ages. Great potato cakes ... Went back for seconds. Friendly service. We're still talking about it.
Leanne Shea Langdown on Google, October 2025
Stopped by with Family. Great Food and Prices. Clean and Good Service. I enjoyed my Burger Plus the the best Potato Cake I have had in long time
Stuart Langdown on Google, October 2025
Homemade potato cakes/ scallops are amazing! Even better with chicken salt in a buttered bread roll, with a bit of chicken gravy above & bellow it 👌.
Wonder on Google, January 2026
Great steak sanga, friendly staff and spotlessly clean
Julie Brown on Google, July 2026
Have a look around

Room to sit down, or wrapped and out the door

Tables inside and out on the footpath, the fridges stocked, and the fryer going from open to close.

The shopfront from across Mangan Street, tables out on the footpath under the green awning
Inside at a busy moment, staff on the coffee machine and customers at the tables
The service counter, hot food bar on one side and the cake cabinet on the other
The drinks fridges against the sage green panelling
Find us

108 Mangan Street, opposite the park

Ring an order through and it will be ready when you get here, or pull up, come in and have it at a table.

Opening hours

  • Monday7:30am - 8:00pm
  • Tuesday7:30am - 8:00pm
  • Wednesday7:30am - 8:00pm
  • Thursday7:30am - 8:00pm
  • Friday7:30am - 8:00pm
  • Saturday7:30am - 8:00pm
  • Sunday8:00am - 2:30pm
Order by phone0499 897 593Shop landline(03) 5859 0315
Address108 Mangan St
Tongala VIC 3621

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Call 0499 897 593