Kochi offers an incredible variety of food and eating-out places which pleases even a gourmet.

To start with the traditional food- avail, stew, dosas and vadas, are usual Malayalee delicacies and favourite South Indian fast foods and is available at each and every eat outs. Woodlands and Dwaraka restaurants are among the most visited ones.
A large number of hotels along Marine Drive offer variety of Mughalai and Chinese food. China garden and Micro are some of these which are popular and well frequented.

Kochi has a share of the pot-pourri kind of eating places that provide all kinds of food. The Oven, Bimbi’s and a host of others have a variety of eatables to offer, from baked stuff to samosas (deep fried dumping), vegetarian and non vegetarian. To please the appetite of tourists and the cosmopolitan crowd of the city these places also serve chats such as Delhi-chat, pani puri etc.

But then there are the real hallmarks of eating out in Kochi. Like the Pai Fast Foods, where 35 kinds of dosas are dished out on M.G Road by a hawker whose clientele ranges from the ordinary worker to the elite. Or the great seafood snaks along the seafront where delicious fish, lobster, crab and the likes can be had at reasonable prices. Kadalkarra Restaurant at Cherai Beach is famous for its mouth-watering seafood dishes.

Coffee day is the trendy place to visit for variety of coffees and to grab cocktails, Longevity lounge at Avenue Regent is the right destination. Apart of all these, Abad Plaza, and International Hotel (a little away from M.G Road) have fine restaurants. Kashi Art Café at Mattancherry is the best place to eat, relax and to rejuvenate.

Eating out in Kochi can be a holiday in itself.