Kayees Ramathula Hotel

Kochi (Cochin)


This no-frills spot is legendary among Kochi locals for its lunchtime chicken, mutton and seafood biryanis – get here early or miss out. Don't confuse it with the lime-green biryani place on the corner – Kayees is next door.


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Nearby Kochi (Cochin) attractions

1. Mattancherry Palace

0.47 MILES

Mattancherry Palace was a generous gift presented to the Raja of Kochi, Veera Kerala Varma (1537–65), as a gesture of goodwill by the Portuguese in 1555…

2. Pardesi Synagogue

0.49 MILES

Originally built in 1568, Mattancherry's synagogue was partially destroyed by the Portuguese in 1662, and rebuilt two years later when the Dutch took…

3. Jewish Cemetery

0.54 MILES

Just southwest of Mattancherry's synagogue, the undisturbed Jewish Cemetery contains ancient tombstones marked with Hebrew script.

5. Santa Cruz Basilica

0.82 MILES

Built on the site of an early-16th-century Portuguese church (demolished during the British Raj), Fort Cochin's imposing neoclassical Catholic basilica…

6. Kashi Art Gallery

0.84 MILES

The pioneer of Fort Cochin’s art revival, Kashi displays changing exhibitions of local artists in a creatively restored Dutch heritage house, attached to…

7. Chinese Fishing Nets

0.93 MILES

The unofficial emblems of Kerala’s backwaters, and perhaps the most photographed, are the half-dozen giant cantilevered Chinese fishing nets on Fort…

8. Bastion Bungalow

0.97 MILES

Though the interior of this 1667 Indo-European bungalow was being renovated into a museum at research time, you can admire its fine whitewashed, tiled…