So with no restaurant experience but a hunch there was a market out there, they chucked in their jobs on the taxi rank, hired a chef and opened Coconut Lagoon. When we arrived on Saturday night ...

The owner and award-winning chef at Coconut Lagoon says his east Ottawa restaurant will be "out of commission for a long time" following a Friday evening fire in the upstairs unit. Joe Thottungal said ...

He can be very proud of his reputation-making east-end restaurant Coconut Lagoon, which since 2004 has celebrated the cuisine of Kerala, Thuottungal’s home state on India’s tropical southweste ...

When the Citizen last reviewed the restaurant in 2009, my predecessor lauded Thottungal’s food but said Coconut Lagoon, which previously had been a humble sports bar, was “a real Plain Jane ...

From left, Ottawa AFP board president Jeff Todd with radio host Sam Laprade from An Hour to Give with Sam Laprade, Coconut Lagoon restaurant owner and chef Joe Thottungal, and AFP Ottawa board member ...

What's a chef to do with his restaurant when he's off for a couple days to represent Ottawa in a nationwide cooking competition? Coconut Lagoon owner and chef Joe Thottungal will represent Ottawa ...

From left, AFP Ottawa board president Jeff Todd, president-elect Bronwen Dearlove (National Arts Centre Foundation), Derek deLouché (Carleton University) and Joe Thottungal, chef and owner of Coconut ...

The owner and award-winning chef at Coconut Lagoon says his east Ottawa restaurant will be "out of commission for a long time" following a Friday evening fire in the upstairs unit. Joe Thottungal ...