Kovalam

Open- air restaurants line the beach area and are scattered through the coconut palms behind it. Almost all the restaurants offer a standard menu including porridge, mueslieggs, toast, idili and dosa for breakfast, and curries or seafood with chips and salad for dinner.

At night, you stroll along the beachfront and select your fish - the range includes seer, barracuda, sea bass, catfish, king and tiger prawns, and crab. You can also select the method of preparation : tandoor, sizzler or grilled. Most preparation involve tasty spices.

Serenity, at the south end of the beach turns out good travelers' breakfasts and reasonable 'spegatty'; nearby Black cat and Shiva's Moon are similar. The Sea View Restaurant is popular all day long, and just beyond the headland the Sea Shore Restaurant is a good spot to sip beer at sunset.
Lonely Planet vegetarian restaurant is nicely situated by water lily pond. Excellent meals include south and north Indian as well as continental cuisine.
Jungle is run by a couple of Italian guys, so there's pasta as well as Indian and Chinese food.
Lucky Coral rooftop restaurants at the Hotel Seaweed is ever popular.
The Rockholm's celebrated restaurant at the Hotel Seaweed is ever-popular.
At the Palmshore, you can eat indoors or on the open balcony
Hotel Appu, well away from the beach, now has well-earned reputation for the best cheap Indian food in Kovalam.