Every Kerala foodie’s search of wanting to taste the amazing flavours of Chef Suresh Pillai’s cuisine has just ended. RESTAURANT CHEF PILLAI, the fine dining eatery serving all of Chef Pillai’s celebrated recipes in now open at the Le Meridian, a 5-star MARRIOT establishment in Kochi Kerala.The NIRVANA fountain of food enlightenment is overflowing with hundreds of excited guests homing in for a taste of food delight.

As celebrated movie star Kamal Haasan said “ Since I could not come to Kerala to eat my favourite ‘Karimeen’, I flew down Kerala’s finest chef to cookup my favourite dishes for me and my friends.

Chef Pillai’s hallmark FISH NIRVANA is the mainstay of his specially curated menu highlighting the simple elegance bundled with skilled cooking and dramatic presentations on a platter. The dishes seem to speak their story of how they evolved from originally sourced ingredients, blended in with the choicest of spices to finish off on your palates as delicious flavour bombs.

A speciality of the menu on offer in Kochi is the range of specially curated ‘Cocktails’ by Chef Pillai.

It is an ode to passion of the days when Toddy and arrack were a way of life in the town and villages of Kerala.

From ‘Patta Mattancherry’ to ‘Tamanam Vaat 99’, each cocktail pays tribute to the nostalgic haze of the bygone vintage years ‘70’s and ‘80’s in Kochi and Kerala. These delicious mixes pay tribute to the times with their brilliantly curated blends.

The SAMBARAM PAANI POORI starters bring North Indian street food packaged with Kerala delicacies that explode on your palate.

You can then relish the Kerala staple dishes like the KUTTANAD DUCK ROAST, THE GRILLLED TIGER PRAWNS, KOLLAM MUTTON CURRY or the spiced ALLEPPY FISH CURRY that promises to bring a whiff of Kerala home cooking to your table.

For the meat lovers there is Chef Pillai special treatment of a steak in POTHU RAJAMANICKAM and GOD’S OWN LOBSTER keeping the spirit of the bounty of the Kochi seas and MEEN BBC is the dish that Chef Pillai cooked up at the Masterchef BBC Professionals show.

All signature dishes and all uniquely special.

Wind off the meal with a dessert everyone is talking about – UNNIAPPAM FALOODA. Kerala’s finest sweet unniappams add to the richness of a fruit filled Falooda.