The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge regarding personal hygiene, environmental hygiene and food hygiene of male food handlers in selected restaurants at Ernakulam and to find the association between knowledge among male food handlers and selected variables such as age, experience and education. 98% of participants had average and 2% had below average knowledge score on personal hygiene. 37% of the participants had a score below average, 43% of the participant had an average and 20% of the participants had an above average score on environmental hygiene. All participants had average knowledge scores on food hygiene. Only the age of the participants is found to be associated with environmental hygiene.