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    Malabar Coast

    3.9 (215 reviews)
    Closed 11:30 am - 2:30 pm, 5:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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    MALABAR COAST ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for groups

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    Malabar fish curry drenched in oil.
    Lovejit K.

    I have been going to this place after Red Chillies in Milpitas closed their restaurant and now only does catering. This place is a hit or miss but today I was super disappointed hence this review. I go for my staples Malabar fish curry and Beef fry with appam. Beef fry was super bland as if they forget to put any spices in it. The worst was the malabar fish curry was DRENCHED in oil. see pic below Will not be going here for a while now.

    Meen Manga Curry
    Diana D.

    We gave this place a try as our go-to place for Kerala food--red chillies closed. We ordered online, although the pick-up time that their website showed was 30 minutes before the restaurant opened. Needless to say, we had to wait 30 minutes after our scheduled pick-up time because their website was buggy and they took orders even during their off-hours. Thankfully, the food was ready within 15 minutes after the restaurant opened. We ordered fish cutlets, kappa, mango fish curry, and beef roast. The food was good, and the portion size was good as well. I really liked the fish curry. I'm not sure if it's worth the drive, though.

    Ariana J.

    My best friend and I visited Malabar Coast today for dinner and I was absolutely mind blown by how flavourful and yummy the food tasted. My first time having Kerala food and my bestie (he's from Kerala) ordered some dishes for me to try. He ordered 2 curries Chicken Varutharachatu (Spicy chicken curry cooked to perfection with curry leaves and red chilli, tasted little similar to chettinadu chicken curry with Kerala flavors) CHEMMEEEN MANGA CURRY ( shrimp curry with notes of raw mango, tamarind cooked in coconut oil) , Iddiappam( steamed rice cakes like vermicelli) and parota. The food was exceptionally yummy and I absolutely loved my first Kerala food experience. The iddiappam and shrimp curry was a match made in heaven. Same goes to chicken curry and parota. Will visit again to try out more dishes.

    Idiyappam and Kappa
    Pranathi B.

    Haven't been more disappointed with a restaurant in recent memory. The menu looked exciting with a lot of unique options and we ordered a lot of varieties - fish cutlets, chicken 65, talasery chicken biryani, kappa, parotta, idiyappam, meen vatichathu. Chicken 65- the only decent dish of the evening, not exceptional but nothing much to complain about. Fish cutlets- under seasoned with a strong smell of fish. Idiyappam- not freshly prepared, they were hard set due to sitting around for some time. Kappa- made with yucca root, there were several large chunks of the intact yucca root. Porotta- flaky but very stiff without much malleability. Meen vatichathu- fish curry with very strong flavor of tamarind. I personally didn't like it. Talasery chicken biryani- the dish came with rice mixed with a very oily chicken gravy as the bottom with some other rice on top. There was a boiled egg as well. The texture of the rice was hard, it was not uncooked but it's the state the rice gets rendered to when refrigerated. The temperature of the dish was inconsistent, parts of it were warm and parts of it were room temperature with the hard rice. The boiled egg was fridge cold. We couldn't eat the dish. I hate wasting food and tend to pack leftovers but this was something I could barely eat or pack to take home. I personally wanted to provide feedback to the owner so I requested a call back as he was not at the restaurant. He promptly called me and spoke to to me for 10 mins, took all the feedback constructively and apologized for my experience. I hope they improve and take the feedback in the right stride.

    Talassery Biryani - Chicken

    Service = Ok Ambience = Bad ( not clean) Food = Below average. Non of the item was fresh. Chili chicken was certainly not fresh same as the Beef Fry. It may because we went on a weekday. Not worth the money and time.

    Ordered Fish Fry, explicitly had mentioned to keep it mild. Even picked up the order and open it, it had the spicy masala used. Asked the cashier and his meak response was that is how we make it, when asked you should have called and informed so I can cancel the order the response was the chef did not see the message that came with order. Now the preparation, it was shoddy, the spices applied only to some area and underprepared/cooked. Very poor experience with food and service

    Sunil R.

    Really good flavors and friendly staff. I got the idiyappam, paneer makhani, paratha, and gobi manchurian. They were all very good. Malabar Coast is in the top quartile of Indian restaurants in the area for sure. The only nit is that the quantity of the idiyappams was tiny and it was barely there.

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    Excellent food, very good staff. You can tell them to make food mild in case you don't like spicy food.

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    Their Biriyani is the best in Bay area ! Coconut chicken curry and fish fry are also yummy.

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    Good Kerala restaurant with tasty food. Recommend beef fry, fish fry, meen vattichathu, and kappa.

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    Food quality was mediocre. The meat cut was really poor (fatty). Not great Kerala food

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