Top Vegetarian Restaurants In Ernakulam, Kochi

By Krati Purwar

Ernakulam is a popular residential locality in Kochi known for Marine Drive. This area is surrounded by restaurants that cater to a variety of customers from all walks of life. Being the most urbanised locality in the city, this place has several options for foodies to explore. This trail will acquaint you with the best vegetarian joints in the area that serve delicious South Indian and a variety of other delicacies. 


  • Vasantha Vihar Pure Veg Restaurant

    Vasantha Vihar restaurant has a vegetarian menu with South Indian, North Indian, and Chinese dishes listed on it. Apart from popular dosa and idli, this place also serves curd vada, pongal, appam with curry, and puttu with curry. Among North Indian mains, they have aloo gobi masala, paneer butter masala, dal fry, and more. Their Chinese menu includes spring roll dosa, gobi manchurian, chilly gobi, etc. The joint also serves soups and fresh fruit juices.


  • Brindhavan Veg Restaurant

    This restaurant has a vast menu, catering to North Indian, Chinese, and South Indian taste palates. They have kulcha, veg noodles, lemon rice, matar paneer, different types of dal, and other dishes for main course. Under their quick bite section, you can enjoy authentic snacks from Kerala, including kinnathapam, unniapam, vattayappam, bajji, banana fry, and onion samosa. In the Chinese section, they have ginger fried rice, mushroom fried rice, crispy fried vegetables, garlic fried rice, mushroom 65, and more. 


  • Hotel Saravana Bhavan, Ernakulam

    If you are craving authentic South Indian food, head to Hotel Saravana Bhavan. They serve a variety of dosa, rice, noodles, and North Indian dishes. The list of evening snacks includes cutlet, veg parotta, gobi parotta, ela ada, finger chips, etc. You can also order peas pulao, ghee rice, fried rice, paneer pulao, lemon rice, curd rice, tomato rice, veg biryani, and more. Among North Indian mains, they serve paneer butter masala, green peas masala, mushroom fry, aloo paneer masala, kadhai paneer, bhindi masala, and veg kofta. Their Chinese dishes are flavourful and wholesome.


  • Gokul Oottupura

    Gokul Oottupura has many joints across Kochi. The one in Ernakulam has North Indian, Chinese, and South Indian dishes on the menu. Among their USP dishes, you must try out fried rice, masala dosa, ghee roast, podi onion dosa, and masala buttermilk. They have an Oottupura thali and a South Indian thali. The restaurant serves a variety of dosa, including paneer masala dosa, butter roast dosa, rava masala dosa, and more. Their Chinese section has delicacies like schezwan fried rice, mushroom chilly fry, chilly paneer, and chilly gobi dry. 


  • Shree Krishnan Inn

    Shree Krishnan Inn’s menu flaunts a variety of ice creams, hot and cold beverages, fresh juice, and milkshakes. They also sell delicious falooda, cream maharani ice cream, and Arabic delight. The restaurant sells pav bhaji, pani puri, sev puri, assorted chaat, bhel puri, and papdi chaat too. They have four kinds of veg biryani - vegetable biryani, Mughlai biryani, paneer tikka biryani, and mushroom masala biryani. If you are too hungry, you can order either South Indian or North Indian thalis as well. This place has Chinese appetisers like mushroom chilly fry, chilly baby corn, chilly mushroom, and more.


  • Ambiswamy’s Vegetarian Hotel

    This South Indian food joint is known for serving delicious street food items. Their menu includes plain uttapam, paper roast dosa, butter masala dosa, banana uttapam, coffee shakes, rice, and more. The snacks section has ada leaf, vada, baji, and banana fry listed. Their evening special dishes are lemon rice, veg fried rice, aloo gobi, tomato rice, green peas masala, gobi manchurian, and chilly gobi.


  • Veg Bhavan

    Veg Bhavan is a small eatery in Kochi where you can relish biryani, snacks, desserts, soups, salads, noodles, and a variety of other Indian dishes. Their main course section has popular North Indian options like bhindi masala, shahi paneer, aloo jeera, aloo gobi, navratan korma, paneer bhurji, kadhai mushroom, and more. Apart from lemon and curd rice, they also sell paneer pulao and veg biryani. They have mushroom fried, rice, Singapore fried rice, Kashmiri crispy noodles, Chinese chop suey, and chana fry on the menu.


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