Restaurants in Panaji (Panjim)
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Sher-E-Punjab
A cut above the usual lunch joint, Sher-E-Punjab caters to well-dressed locals with its generous, carefully spiced Indian dishes. There’s a pleasant garden terrace out the back, and an icy AC room if you’re feeling sticky. Try the delicious paneer tikka (Rs90) but note, if you’re hungering for snacks, that the fish fingers and chicken fingers are ‘seasonal only’.
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Hotel Venite Restaurant
With colourful graffiti covered walls and half a dozen tiny balconies hanging over the street this Latin flavoured restaurant is the perfect spot to pause for one of their delicious milkshakes and a light snack.
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Hospedaria Venite
Along with Viva Panjim, this is without doubt the lunch address to which most tourists head, and, though the food isn’t exactly excellent, the atmosphere warrants the visit. Its tiny, rickety balcony tables, which look out onto pastel-washed 31st January Rd, make the perfect lunchtime spot, and the Goan chouriços (spiced sausages; Rs145) and vegetable vindaloo (Rs95) are really pretty tasty. Order a cold beer or two, munch on a slightly ’70s-style salad (think cold boiled vegetables in vinaigrette) and watch lazy Panaji slip by.
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Cidade de Goa
After a day of poking about the coastline, a good place to recover before heading homeward is at one of the eight restaurants at this swanky village-style place, designed by renowned Goan architect Charles Correa, close to Dona Paula in the village of Vainguinim. Chow down at its Portuguese-themed Alfama restaurant, which comes complete with wandering minstrels, or just drop in for a cool sundowner at the Bar Latino.
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Veg Baba
This spanking new place down a side street off 18th June Rd dishes up delicious Indian vegetarian delights of all descriptions, and is friendly, cheerful and efficient. A self-declared ‘meat-free zone’, it’s clean, cool and blessed with a good line in proverbs: ‘An elephant is 50 times stronger,’ it reminds us sagely, ‘It is vegetarian.’
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Simply Fish
Simply Fish, of all the restaurants on offer, is the one to plump for, offering up such exotic fishy delights as lobster cappuccino and mud-crab xacuti (a spicy chicken or meat dish with coconut milk). Otherwise, lunch or even just a drink at the all-day Waterfront Terrace and Bar is a more simple, similarly soothing pleasure.
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Viva Panjim
Though it might be more than a touch touristy these days, this little side-street eatery, with a couple of tables out on the street itself, nevertheless still delivers tasty Goan staples, as well as the standard range of Indian fare. Keep an eye out in the dim interior for Mrs Linda de Souza, restaurant founder and doughty matriarch.
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Zen Restaurant
The welcoming statement that the Chinese will eat anything with four legs but a table and anything with two wings but a plane does make you ponder what 'delicacy' might emerge from the kitchens next, but rest assured that this stylish new joint avoids anything dodgy and just sticks to praise-winning Chinese and Thai staples.
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Quarterdeck
Watch crammed passenger ferries and hulking casino boats chug by from a waterside table at this open-air ‘multicuisine’ restaurant perched on the Mandovi banks. There’s a small playground for children and the multicuisine is tasty enough, though the location is without doubt the restaurant’s biggest drawcard.
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Horse Shoe
A well-respected, sweet little Goan-Portuguese place, this is a simple but romantic choice for some traditional dishes and a nice bottle of Portuguese wine. At the time of research Horse Shoe was open for dinner only (7pm to 10.30pm; bookings advised) but this might change, so call ahead to be sure.
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Gujarat Sweet Mart
If you’re possessed with a sweet tooth, here’s the place to indulge it, with a panoply of Indian confectioneries of the sweet, sweeter and sweetest varieties. Wash all that decadence down with a thick milkshake or lassi, which also come in an array of heavenly, sugary flavours.
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Vihar Restaurant
A vast menu of ‘pure veg’ food, great big thalis and a plethora of fresh juices make this clean, simple canteen a popular place for locals and visitors alike. Sip a hot chai, invent your own juice combination, and dig into an ice cream for afters.
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Lourenzos
Brand new, homely bar and restaurant near old Pato Bridge that's popular with local drivers. The owner is a highly eccentric Maradona lookalike who'll probably do his best to get you drinking. South American atmosphere with old Goan favourites.
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New Café Hema
This is a cheap, clean place near the municipal market serving a very good fish curry and rice and cheap veg snacks. Entrance is at the rear and up some stairs.
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Anandashram
Just opposite the Hospedaria Venite, this little place dishes up simple, mighty tasty fish curries and veg and nonveg thalis for around the Rs 40 mark.
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Anandashram Restaurant
Just opposite the Hospedaria Venite, this little places dishes up simple, mighty tasty fish curries and veg and nonveg thalis for lunch and dinner.
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Cafe de Ria
Just beneath the Hotel Ria Residency sits the unassuming Cafe de Ria, a ‘pure veg’ place that dishes up delicious, diverse south Indian dishes.
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