Taste of Cochin

Indian restaurant · Bellerose

Taste of Cochin

Indian restaurant · Bellerose

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248-8 Union Tpke, Queens, NY 11426

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Informal restaurant offering Indian classics, including Kerala-inspired & vegetarian options.  

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248-8 Union Tpke, Queens, NY 11426 Get directions

tasteofcochin.com

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248-8 Union Tpke, Queens, NY 11426 Get directions

+1 718 347 3900
tasteofcochin.com

$$ · Menu

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"Kerala lies near the southernmost tip of India. The cuisine features seafood and coconut, often richly spiced with curry leaves, black mustard seeds, and black peppercorns. Beef is a mainstay, making Taste of Cochin one of the few Indian places offering beef curries. Menu highlights include fish moillee, Malabar paratha, beef ularthiyathu, goat masala, and avial, a vegetarian delight of chayote and long beans in coconut milk. The place fills with celebratory banquets on the weekends." - Robert Sietsema

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"There were at least three previous restaurants presenting food of Kerala, though not quite so comprehensively, on the border of eastern Queens and Long Island: Taste of Cochin, Five Star Indian Cuisine, and Kerala Kitchen." - Robert Sietsema

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"Now known as Kochi, Cochin is a city on the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala, where the diet abounds in seafood and coconut milk. Taste of Cochin is a restaurant in far eastern Bellerose, Queens, which is one of the first neighborhoods where the cuisines of southern Indian debuted in New York City. Malabar fish curry features snowy white fillets in a sauce laced with coconut milk and turmeric, among other spices, and the red chile garnish warns of its spiciness." - Robert Sietsema

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Ra Do

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Food here is excellent (a bit spicy for the regular American customer), they have buffett choices I did not find in other Indian places. The chicken byriani was one of the best I ever tried. And so was one of the buffet deserts. I will definitely go back.

Jason Tiger

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Food is great and cheap and tastes good but you should not use fish gravy on the shrimp curry.. does not look professional when you find fish bones in shrimp curry. Educate the chefs. One mistake can lead to many and then one day some one gets food poisoning. Thanks

Patrick Wigmore

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Came across this place on a Saturday for lunch. Very typical southern Indian restaurant. Seems to be a set menu on the day I went, typical banana leaf set up. Which is common across most of South India. Dishes were very good, you get about 20 small portions. Price was $20 per person for the buffet. For some of the bad reviews on this place they seem not to have had south Indian food, which is VERY different from northern Indian. All veg, no cream sauces, but very flavorful if you give it a chance.

Deokumar Gandharry

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TASTE OF COCHIN IS A GREAT PLACE FOR THE FAMILY! THEY ARE THE BIGGEST INDIAN BUFFET IN BELLEROSE, WITH THE MOST SELECTION OF FOOD IN A LUXURIOUS DINING ATMOSPHERE. A++ FOR MANAGEMENT EFFORT!

varghese thomas

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I Like That Place Because the Foo was so good

Sivakumar Selvaratnam

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The food is below average. One guy runs the show(cashier ,waiter etc) and he was drinking and working . I was able to smell alcohol while talking to him. Zero hospitality. Not clean. A beatup atmosphere. I went with my family and felt so uncomfortable. Will never go back to this place and will never recommend this to anyone.

Johnson Boss

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The minute I sit down the first thing I see is the waiter looking around like he’s a newborn baby, he brings me to their “average” table. Mind you this average table is actually the size of a bed chest. The table cloth set down on all the tables look like they belong on top of someone’s funeral casket. The food was absolutely horrible and bland, and their “chicken tikka” is just 3 pieces with a side of a hot lemon slice. The guy brought me a dish and then realized it’s not my order… there were two parties…. This bland whole pity made me suffer through nausea. The best thing they had here was the water, and the whole order toppled a hundred bucks. This is slander to Indian cuisine, true Indian cuisine is far better then this discount “restaurant”.

Stanley Mendonza

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The food was excellent, taste was out of the world, the fish curry is a must try, so is the meat curry. Definitely going back to try other dishes. Forgot to mention the mixed grill sizzler was phenomenal. The staff, service and owner followed up and recommended the best dishes to try.