Onam sadya bookings are open. Call or WhatsApp to reserve a leaf.
Appam, fish curry and filter coffee, the way they cook at home
A family kitchen in Fort Kochi since 2011. Breakfast from 8 am, banana-leaf meals at lunch, and Malabar dishes in the evening.
- Monday to Saturday: 8:00 am – 10:30 pm
- 14/220 Calvathy Road, Kochi
From the kitchen
What people come back for
Our menu changes with the fish that comes in at the Thoppumpady harbour each morning and with what is in season at Ernakulam market. Coconut is ground fresh, curry leaves come from the backyard, and the rice is Palakkadan matta.
-
Masala dosa
Crisp dosa with potato masala, sambar and coconut chutney.
₹110
-
Kerala meals on banana leaf
Matta rice, sambar, rasam, pulissery, thoran, avial, pickle, pappadam and payasam. Refills on rice and curries.
₹180
-
Meen curry in clay chatti
Seer fish in a sour, red kodampuli curry, cooked and served in a clay pot.
₹380
-
Fish fry platter
Two pieces of the day's catch fried in masala, with onion salad and lime.
₹340
Small kitchen, big pots
Cooked in the morning
Masalas are ground and coconut is scraped every morning. Nothing is reheated from yesterday.
Fish from the harbour
We buy at Thoppumpady before 7 am. If the catch is poor, the fish dishes come off the board.
Fair to the kitchen
Our cooks get a weekly day off and a share of the service charge, and most have been with us for years.
Guests
Kind words
The fish meals tasted like my grandmother's kitchen in Alappuzha. Generous refills, and the staff were patient with our two noisy kids.
I come in most mornings before the 8:30 ferry. Appam and mutton stew, filter coffee, done in fifteen minutes.
Booked a table on WhatsApp the night before and it was ready when we arrived. The karimeen was the best thing we ate in Kochi.
Find us
Come hungry
14/220 Calvathy Road, Near the Fort Kochi ferry jetty, Kochi.
- Monday to Saturday8:00 am – 10:30 pm
- Sunday8:00 am – 3:30 pm, 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm
