Seafood restaurants in India
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Zeebop by the Sea
Renowned for its excellent seafood – or ‘underwater treasures’, as the restaurant itself describes its cuisine – simple Zeebop, just back from Utorda’s main beach and opposite Kenilworth, is a firm favourite with locals in the know. Closed Good Friday.
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Prime Square
Keralan specialities and a great-value fish curry.
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Golden Green Restaurant
A cosy little restaurant where the best, freshest seafood is not on the printed menu.
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Old Courtyard
Seafood focused, the small but thoughtful international menu is well executed - Spanish-style beef and baked mussels get our vote.
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Oasis on the Rocks
A seafood specialist with wonderful views over your dinner's former watery home. It's a good one for couples looking for somewhere to get romantic.
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Luna Magica
If beachside ambience and the strains of Bob Marley are what you're after, Luna Magica is recommended for fresh seafood. It's also a good setting for breakfast.
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Ploof
Near the India Habitat Centre, Ploof specialises in seafood, but the menu is a bit hit-and-miss. Deep-sea delights include Himalayan rainbow trout and baked crab.
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Kerala House Family Restaurant
Don't expect much in the way of décor (think formica), but do expect one mean fish-curry masala. The fish pollichathu (baked in banana leaf), with ginger, vegetables and spices, is also top-notch.
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Trishna
This might just be the best seafood in town. It specialises in Mangalorean preparations, and the crab with butter, pepper and garlic and various shrimp dishes – all brought to your table for inspection – are outstanding.
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Village Inn Restaurant
Tucked away off the main strip, there's cane furniture, a couple of tables on the veranda and Indian classical music playing in the background, with inexpensive seafood, steaks (order in advance) and, surprisingly, Scotch eggs.
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Mahesh Lunch Home
A great place to try Mangalorean seafood in Mumbai. It’s renowned for its ladyfish, pomfret, lobster and crabs, and its rawas tikka (marinated white salmon) and tandoori pomfret are outstanding. There’s also a branch on Juhu Tara Rd.
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Waves
This breezy open-air beachfront restaurant is a good spot for lunch or an evening meal beneath the palms; indoors it's a bit dismal. Seafood is available (crab and lobster by weight), along with Thai and Indian dishes. You can get a beer at the resort next door.
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Wildgrass Restaurant
With mismatched sculptures and precarious tree-huts scattered through its grounds, Wildgrass is a secret garden gone wild. The garden surrounds a small restaurant with an Indian and continental menu enlivened with excellent seafood dishes and Orissan specialties.
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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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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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Coconut Lagoon
Excellent Keralan and Goan fare with a focus on seafood delicacies, such as kari meen polli chathu (fish masala steamed in banana leaf).
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Frys Village Restaurant
This cavernous family restaurant is one of the best places in town for authentic Keralan food, especially for seafood like pollichathu (fish in banana leaves) or crab roast (Rs50 to Rs100 depending on size).
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Peace Restaurant
‘Peace Restaurant world famous in Puri but never heard of anywhere else.’ So reads the menu, which features curries, macaroni, the best muesli in town and tasty fish dishes; the fish dopiaza is fab. This simple row of tables with thatch canopies is deservedly popular. Your food might take a while to arrive but it will be worth it, and you can enjoy a cold beer while you wait.
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Goa Portuguesa
A visit to this restaurant, which specialises in fiery Portuguese-inspired dishes, is almost as good as making the trip to Goa. Next door, its partner business, Culture Curry, offers all kinds of curries from around India. Guitar-strumming musicians and singers wander between the two connected spaces.
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