From sandwiches to chocolate cake: What to eat at Kochi Muziris Biennale 2025

Walking done the creation venues astatine the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2025 astatine Fort Kochi tin beryllium tiring, particularly successful humid weather. Here’s a usher to cafes and eateries astir the galleries wherever you tin drawback a solid of thing acold and comforting to quench your thirst and find a bully crockery to spell with it. From sandwiches and pastas to accepted Kerala flavours, determination is simply a enactment to take from.

Qissa Cafe

If you are not successful the temper for a afloat meal, effort the sandwiches here. These tuna, cheese, ovum and chickenhearted sandwiches are amazingly light, yet filling. Served with 2 crunchy slices of watermelon, they are perfect for a speedy lunch. Salads are connected the menu, too. The drinks see beverage and coffee, some blistery and iced, and a assortment of seasonal effect juices. While astatine Qissa, cheque retired the works connected show arsenic portion of the Art Pavilion 2025, a showcase of paintings by assorted artists taking spot alongside the biennale. Opened successful 2015, the cafe’s meal offerings, including avacado peculiar toast, are particularly popular.

Order this: Pineapple food sandwich and ginger citrus soda

On KB Jacob Road, other the Police Station, Fort Kochi.

₹580 for two

Kashi Art Cafe

The cocoa barroom astatine Kashi Art Cafe has ever been and inactive is its biggest draw. It is simply a ample information of lukewarm cake, moistened with cocoa condiment and tin beryllium easy shared by 2 people. If your are astir during breakfast, effort the appam and stew. Or take from a enactment of full wheat sandwiches oregon omelettes disposable done the day.  It has a afloat vegan and gluten escaped paper successful summation to the main menu. Opened successful 1997, Kashi is 1 of Kochi’s earliest creation cafes, featuring the works of immoderate of Kerala’s well-known artists, including Riyas Komu. Formerly an aged Dutch House, with a courtyard, which is present the cardinal abstraction of the cafe, with tons of greenery, Kashi tin beryllium easy accessed connected ft (about a two-minute walk) from 1 of the main biennale venues, The Aspinwall House.

Order this: Chocolate cake, acold java with crystal cream, each nutrient lover’s omelette.

On Burgher Street, Fort Kochi.

₹800 for two

Solar Cafe

Open lone during the Kozhi Muziris Biennale, this cafe with its agleam yellowish walls and shelves lined with books and vintage tables and chairs is buzzing with vigor successful the mediate of the day. Take the woody formation of stairs to find your spot. A satisfying accepted Kerala meal, implicit with food curry and fry, pappadam and buttermilk gives you an acquisition of the section flavours. Salads and sandwiches are disposable too, successful summation to tea, java and effect juices.

Order this: Fish curry meals and lime soda

Opposite Customs Jetty.

Calvathy Road, Kunnumpuram, Fort Kochi

₹400 for two

Pepper House Cafe

Coffee and coconut blend perfectly good successful Cocobay Mint, a speciality portion astatine Pepper House Cafe. Managed by Rakkaudella Chocolates, a Kerala-based azygous root cocoa brand, the cafe serves a constricted but tasty enactment of sandwiches, salads, acold drinks and desserts. A cocoa acquisition centre, acceptable to unfastened soon, volition diagnostic 32 varieties of the brand’s chocolates. The acquisition centre volition relation adjacent aft the biennale. What enhances the acquisition is the partly-open aerial seating and Pepper House’s practice vibe. One of the main venues of the beinnale, the galleries connected the archetypal level showcase the works of artists including Monica Correya and Nityan Unnikrishnan.

Order this: Chocolate barroom and Cocobay Mint

Near Hotel Seagull, Fort Kochi.

₹800 for two

Mocha Art Cafe

A afloat herb food sandwich is filling, but eating it successful a cafe housed successful a 16th period Dutch mansion speaks straight to the soul. The engaged small cafe is astatine 1 of the constrictive passageways wrong the mansion, which has assorted rooms converted into antique and covering stores. The paper includes salads, soups, steak, sandwiches, a enactment of omelettes, pasta and pancakes. Tea, java and seasonal effect juices signifier a chunk of the menu. While you hold for the food, you could instrumentality a look astatine a collateral amusement of the biennale, The Lightness of Being, a postulation of abstract paintings by Shobha Broota, curated by Ina Puri. 

Order this: Spicy murphy sandwich and acold java with crystal cream

Opposite the Jewish Synagogue, Jew Town, Mattancherry.

₹600 for two