Kerala Coastal Feast at Kerala Kitchen, Newton, 120 St, Vancouver BC

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Kerala Coastal Feast at Kerala Kitchen

South-west Indian coastal cooking, Vancouver Foodster Curry Challenge winner, in a Surrey room where coconut and tamarind run everything.

Newton, 120 St

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The date

While the rest of Surrey happily works its way through butter chicken, Kerala Kitchen went full south-west coast: coconut milk, curry leaves, tamarind and a serious way with seafood, convincing enough to take first place at the Vancouver Foodster Curry Challenge. The fish moilee is delicate and lemony, and the appam is what you use to mop up everything else. Come curious, come hungry, bring a sharer.

How to do it

This is coastal cooking, so lean into the seafood: order the fish moilee (delicate, coconut-and-lemon, the gentle one) alongside the Kerala fried fish or the roasted-coconut prawn curry (the bolder picks), and get appam and Malabar parotta to soak everything up. The curry-challenge-winning curries are the reason to come, so build the table around them and compare. It's a cozy, specific little room; budget about an hour and a half and don't miss ordering at least one dish you can't picture yet.

What to wear: smart casual

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Duration
1½-2 hours
Best time
Afternoon to late night
Per person
$$
setting
Indoor
neighbourhood
Newton, 120 St
cuisine
Indian
best season
Year-round

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