Kochi Restaurants

Came here for breakfast in the mornings and this place is very nice with teapots suspended from the ceiling. As the name suggests it's a great place to have a tea or cafe with a huge range on offer plus some great cakes like Death by Chocolate. The tables are made of tea chests, their stencilled writings proudly proclaiming: Produce of India. Tea accessories like strainers, tea balls, tea cosies, milk jugs and sugar pots; the entire tea paraphernalia is on display.

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People who had invited me to cochin had put a car and a driver at my disposal, so i decided to take advantage of it, by asking the driver to take me to the best place for Appam nearby . he drove to MG road in Ernakulam and there it was appam with the gravy.. very tasty indeed

Favorite Dish: Appam of course

I had a few meals at this restaurant. They serve South Indian food, and I had some very good food here. During my last visit (Oct 2008) they had a staff problem and service was poor, as was some of the food (ice cold rice).
You will see people drinkning "tea" from teapots and mugs - tat is actually how they serve there ice cold beer!

Favorite Dish: Keralan Food

There are so many places to eat in Cochin that once in a while you walk in to a place and the simplicity turns out to be a danger. If they go a little heavy on the ghee or the oil, pitta ayurvedic types will suffer from dyspepsia...

Favorite Dish: Masala Dosai as in the picture and soon after that a tablet of Nexium, a proton pump inhibitor for dyspepsia..

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Dinner at Fort House Restaurant
We had celebrated the new year 2007 here, a nice dinner and some fireworks. I had not been back since then, even though I was here twice in 2007.
After being so disappointed by Talk of the Town, after the lovely massage we had decided to eat at the Fort House Restaurant. Since its humble beginnings in 1997 when there were just a few cottages and I had stayed in one of them in 1999, now there are two storied accommodations but the restaurant at the edge of the water remains the same, unchanged, including the seating and the chairs and the tables. I fondly thought of one of my earliest visits to cochin in 1995 when I stayed at the nearby Seagull hotel at that time one of the few places to stay, in a run down room which cost 8 usd at that time! Also remember there was a strike and no autorikshaws were available and we had to catch a lift in a Police Car to the old airport in Willingdon Island.
Prawn curry Kerala style 120
Okra curry 80
Coconut rice 50
Kerala parotta 20
Lime soda 20
Lime ginger soda 25

Tip 25
There were two couples from Italy sitting next to us, who ate French fries with rice! Certainly the travelling Europeans are tired of the Indian food?
One Indian couple were also dining.

Favorite Dish: Okra Curry
Appam
Parotta
Aubergine curry

LUNCH IN THE TIME OF THE BRITISH RAJ
This vegetarian restaurant has not changed its location nor its menu for the past sixty years or so and the man serving and manning the cash counter had been there for 45 of those..
For the first time today, I saw some Europeans eating there. the lunchtime menu of “meals” rice with curd, various vegetable curries and sambar was somewhat bland. But who can complain when the meal which was filling and a cup of the sweet Indian tea was served for 1 euro?
65 inr

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RESTAURANT AT THE HOTEL METROPOLITAN
Lunch on 15th August 2008
Appam
Parotta
Vegetable Stew
Fish Curry
Delicious. Extremely good service. Good ambience.
In summary, Good Indian food, in an un affected Indian atmosphere with typical kerala hospitality.

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Backpackers and the tourists visiting Cochin has really degraded the local cuisine in that most of the restaurants in Fort Cochin cater to the tourists and the quality of the food has gone down. But Krishna Cafe does not have to do anything like that, they serve the original fare from South India..
each of my lunch or dinner at any of the restaurants serving the tourist trade in Fort Cochin cost me between 125 to 200 inr but the dinner at krishna cafe is less than 35 inr, four to five times cheaper. I also happen to like their food

Favorite Dish: Paper Dosay Masala
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