Goa Food- Get the Delicious Food with Goa Magic

The beaches of Goa provide a wide range of activities to the tourists. Goa food or Goan food mainly consists of sea-food and chicken. Goan cuisine is delicious! They add coconut milk and local spices in most of their recipes. 

I know a few friends who go to Goa only for the Goa Food. Goan cuisine is very similar to Malvani cuisine or Konkani cuisine (coastal region in Maharashtra state). The Goa Food is influenced by Hindu origins, 400 years of Portuguese colonialism and modern day techniques. Hindu Brahmins in Goa are usually Vegetarians, who have their native temples in Goa.

Goa Food

Vegetarian Goa Food includes exotic dishes like Dali-thoy, varieties of ghashi, ambaat, sukke, saaru-upkari, kolombo, pathrado, patholi, paayasu and ubbatti. Most of these delicacies are similar to the Konkani vegetarian cuisine.

Non Vegetarian Goa Food includes fish, rice, shellfish and chicken. Their staple food is Rice and Fish. Kingfish (Vison or Visvan) also called Surmai is the most common delicacy. Other fish include pomfret, shark, tuna and mackerel. Among the shellfish are crabs, prawns, tiger prawns, lobster, squid and mussels. The Goa Food of Chrisians is influenced by the Portuguese.

Some of the best places to eat while on your tour to Goa are:

North Goa: 

Cafe Maangi, Panjim offers the best Italian food in Goa.

La Pizzeria, Calangute. Great italian food.

Delhi Darbar, Panjim. One of the best Mughlai food restaurants in Goa.

TiTos, Baga is the most happening place for dinner.

Local Goan houses at Calangute also offer dine-in facility. To experience the real Goa Food and Flavour, you must try doing this. Lonelyplanet has links to several of these local places.

South Goa:

Martin's Corner, Betalbatim is flooded with foreign tourists. There's usually live music in the evenings. You will also find local Goan singing artists singing away the Goan songs in their local language.

Udipi, Margao is a very small restaurant in the main Margao market area. You will get authentic South Indian food there.

For the vegetarians: Goa has several Veg restaurants, one of the famous one is the Navtara chain. Its located at Mapusa and a new branch has recently opened on the way to Calangute from the highway. 

There's also a restaurant serving Gujarati cuisine, called Bhojan at the Fidalgo Hotel, located on the 18th June Road, Panjim. For Goa hotel booking call-7350  731 731