Kerala Restaurants Near Me in Doha — 15 Malabar & Kerala Spots

Looking for a Kerala restaurant near you in Doha? You are in the right city for it. Doha has more Malabar and Kerala kitchens per square kilometre than anywhere outside Kerala itself, most of them open from before dawn to after midnight, and the good ones are not in West Bay. They are on Old Airport Road, Salwa Road, Markhiya and Bin Mahmoud. Below are the 15 Kerala restaurants on Savefy compared by distance, hours, area and what each one is running this week, plus a guide to which restaurant does which dish, from puttu kadala at 4 AM to pothichoru at midnight. This page is part of Indian restaurants near you in Doha on Savefy, and if it is specifically biryani you are after, the biryani in Doha page compares Thalassery, Kozhikodan and Kuttan styles side by side.

Kerala Restaurant Offers in Doha This Week

Posted by the restaurants themselves. Check the vendor page for validity.

Cheapest full meal on this page: Malabar Stories at QAR 10. Cheapest unlimited dinner: Bachikka at QAR 25.

Kerala Restaurant Opening Hours in Doha

Hours as listed by each restaurant, 18 September 2026. Confirm before a very early or very late visit.

Earliest breakfast: Malabar Stories from 4 AM, then Curry Leaves, Aroma and Adaar from 5 to 5:30 AM. Latest closing: Malabar Stories at 1:45 AM every night, MRA and Zaitoon until 2 AM on Thursday and Friday.

Which Kerala Restaurant for Which Dish

Kerala Restaurants by Area in Doha

Old Airport and Al Matar Street

The densest strip of Kerala restaurants in Doha, all open from before dawn to after midnight.

Malabar Stories, Al Matar Al Qadeem Street. +974 5141 0499. 4 AM to 1:45 AM daily. Mangalorean and Thalassery cooking: neer dosa, prawn ghee roast, erachi choru, chorum meenum. QAR 10 buffets at breakfast and lunch.

Bachikka Restaurant, Airport Street near Teyseer Motors. +974 4436 6488. 6 AM to midnight. Beef biryani that sells out early, thali meals with fish fry, avil milk, and an unlimited buffet dinner at QAR 25.

Curry Leaves Restaurant, Old Airport. +974 4455 1606. 5 AM to 1 AM. Kizhi biryani, Friday meals special, paal kappa chatti. Small dining room, better for small groups.

Aroma Restaurant, Al Matar Street. +974 4442 4485. 5:30 AM to 1 AM. Kappa biryani, BBQ and tandoori chicken, upstairs seating.

Salwa Road

Calicut Notebook Restaurant, Al Ain Complex, Salwa Road. +974 6622 2619. 7 AM to midnight, 1 AM Thursday and Friday. Thalassery biryani meal sets, fish fillet elayil tawa, chicken kondattam, egg roast, non-veg sadya at lunch. Queues at weekend lunch.

Signature by Marza, Salwa Road. +974 4444 2248. 11 AM to midnight. Kozhikodan biryani, pothukaal combo, grills, unlimited ghee rice and beef curry, private space for groups.

Panoor Restaurant, Salwa Road. +974 7073 4343. 6:30 AM to midnight. Mutton and Kuttan biryani, beef roast with porotta, breakfast combos, a party hall and bulk sadya orders.

Markhiya and Bin Omran

MRA Bakery & Restaurant, Abdul Aziz Bin Jasim Street, Markhiya. +974 4402 4666. 6 AM to midnight, 2 AM Thursday and Friday. One of nine MRA branches across Qatar: bakery counter, party and family halls, catering, beef chatti chor, and Sagara seafood sadya every Saturday at QAR 29.

MRA Select Restaurant, the premium MRA outlet. 18-item kebab platters and the same Malabar kitchen in a quieter room.

Kozhikode Star Restaurant, Building 3, Street 362, Bin Omran. +974 3109 9945. 11 AM to 12:30 AM, Friday from 12:30 PM. Pothichoru, beef varattiyathu, charcoal BBQ, Malabar chai, large seating capacity and party arrangements.

Al Sadd, Bin Mahmoud and Al Muntazah

Indian Coffee House, Ibn Al Arqam Street. +974 4444 0902. 7 AM to midnight. Biryani with the classic nut topping, Malabar seafood buffet, a first floor for group bookings, sadya pre-booking each Onam.

Zaitoon Restaurant, Al Muthaf Street. +974 4414 7575. 11 AM to midnight, 2 AM Thursday and Friday. Kuttan biryani, grills, tender coconut falooda, a strong vegetarian menu and a party hall. On Keeta for delivery.

Adaar Thattukada, Street 853, Abu Shuaib. +974 3095 8880. Breakfast buffet 5:30 to 10:30 AM at QAR 12, then 11:30 AM to 1 AM. Kerala tea-stall styling, ghee rice and beef curry, sadya.

Doha Tower Restaurant, 46 Al Arouba Street. +974 7712 1006. 6 AM to 1 AM. Ghee rice, chilli chicken, live appam, Kerala mix special platter, party hall.

Barwa Village and the Al Wakrah side

Chef Trios Restaurant, Shops 34 and 36, Building 9, Barwa Village. +974 7766 7475. 6:30 AM to 11:30 PM. Malabar dum biryani, beef coconut fry, South Indian breakfast combos, weekend Achayan's treat at QAR 55, and Filipino dishes alongside.

What Kerala Food Is, for Anyone New to It

Kerala food is coconut, curry leaves, black pepper, tamarind and rice, cooked three ways depending on where in Kerala the cook is from. Malabar (north: Kozhikode, Thalassery, Kannur) is the Doha majority: dum biryani with short kaima rice, pathiri, beef with porotta, Sulaimani tea. Central Kerala (Kochi, Thrissur) gives you appam and stew, kappa and meen curry, and the Achayan Christian kitchen of beef fry and duck roast. Travancore (south) is where sadya comes from, the vegetarian banana-leaf feast served at Onam, Vishu and weddings. Breakfast is puttu with kadala curry or banana, idiyappam with egg curry, or dosa; lunch is meals, rice with fish curry, thoran and pappadam; and the evening is chai with pazham pori and samosa. Every restaurant on this page cooks halal; beef here is Qatar-approved beef.

Kerala Restaurant Prices in Doha

The cheapest full meals on this page are the buffets: Malabar Stories at QAR 10, Adaar at QAR 12, Bachikka at QAR 25. A biryani at a casual Kerala restaurant is typically QAR 15 to 25, a meals plate QAR 12 to 20, and a sadya QAR 23 to 45 depending on the number of dishes. Grills, seafood platters and family halls sit higher, QAR 40 to 60 a head. Prices in the offers table are posted by the restaurants and dated, which beats any general range.