Specialists in seafood and experts in niche aspects of South Asian food, Malabar Dine has become a unique eatery on Civic’s Indian restaurant scene. Malabar cuisine takes in influence from Arab, Brahmin, Zamorin, Chirakkal and wider Indian culinary canons to offer an exciting smorgasbord of exotic spices, great ingredients (at Malabar Dine they ensure these ingredients are organic and sustainable, too) and various traditional methods that have made it one of the most distinctive food identities of southern India. You’ll find a lot here on E Row that won’t pop up at other Indian restaurants around Canberra (many of which follow the well-trodden path of north Indian dishes), so you’re in for something special before you even arrive – and then you have an amazing list of choices like whole grilled fish, crabs claws, malai najuk kofta cottage cheese dumplings in cashew-nut sauce, hearty lentil dishes and famous South Indian dosas in all sorts of incarnations.