The Dehil Darbar is one of the best sit down restaurants in Panaji. the food is typical of Northern India with a few Goan dishes in there as well. The fruit juices are always fresh and the food is prepared in traditional ways and very very good. The prices are also very reasonable and to too unlike anywhere else you will eat in Goa. The staff is incredibly friendly and all have a great handle on English. However, do not expect them to be very fluent or helpful in other languages. Marathi-Hindi and English are a bout it.
Favorite Dish: I don't have a favorite dish. There are the typical dishes you'd find at any other Indian restaurant (Korma, Rogan, Vindaloo, etc) as far as curries go. However, there are some specialty dishes from Northern India as well as some British dishes.
Written Dec 27, 2005
Address: MG Road, opp. Magnum Centre, Panaji Goa, Goa
Phone: 0832-2222544
Sher-E-Punjab (NorthIndian cuisine) is a restuarant with mouth-watering dishes & recipes.
The decor, ambience is superb & the service is awesome!
A real treat, you will be treated like royalty here!!
Favorite Dish: Vegetarian Tawa > it looks great, and tastes like something 'out of this world'.
To keep it special, you had never had it b4, & will never have it again!
Yes, it's not a local (Konkani) dish, but it came highly recommended & so I went here.
Written Dec 24, 2005
Address: Off the main boulevard
In Calangute, nearby the market. Very good vegetarian food, To find it look up it is on the 1st floor.
Favorite Dish: If you fancy various dishes, but don't really know what to order go for a Special Thali, it has a variety of currys with plain rice and pilau rice also has some sweet and salad. The papadum and puri were to die for!
Written Nov 25, 2005
Address: Calangute, nearby the market
This restaurant is located on Baga beach itself. the staff are as helpful and friendly as you could wish for. The food is divine. We ate there most days and were never disappointed. It was very very cheap and of high standard. It also hosted the cleanest toilet on the beach!
The guys in there also put us onto a very good taxi driver who we kept for the 2 weeks we were there.
Favorite Dish: Lobster Thermodore, This was from heaven , it was absolutely delicious and have never had one as good since! Also the milkshakes are freshly made, with fresh fruit or chunks of chocolate, very very yummy!
Updated Nov 3, 2005
Address: Baga Beach
We have eaten in many shacks in india and as a general rule they have all been of a good standard but one deserves a mention is rams shack in candolim as he does the best vegetarian samosas i have ever had.For 40 rs you get two big fat tasty samoas and they are well worth the money.We thought they were that good we used to walk from baga along the beach eat them then walk back.Sometimes we took a doggy bag back with us and gave them to friends and they liked them as well.Rams other food on the menu is quite good and as with all goans he is a character and he likes his cricket.
Updated Aug 20, 2005
Address: opposite the ship
My wife and i was in north goa for 5 months in which time we ate at many restuarants.One of our favourite was Lazy Days at calungute opposite csm hotel.it is spotlessly clean and a veried menu.We only ate vegetarian but our friends ate fish/chicken and had no complaints.Also for music lovers the owners had an excellent sound system playing varios types of music.
Favorite Dish: All the vegertarian food was excellent.Some people asked me where the best place i had eaten and i always said lazy days.I said to them if you go there to eat and you dont like it i would pay for it,but no one asked me to pay for there meal as they enjoyed it.
Written Aug 3, 2005
Address: opposite csm calungute,north goa.
Cavala is a very popular restaurant for music lovers of North Goa.
Every Wed during season, you have an opportunity to listen to some good musicians performing retro-jazz and some Goan on request...
very nice ambience and the staff is very friendly.
Nice food also..
The outdoor area of the restaurant also offers a nice place to have a chat over the table while listening to the band
Updated Jul 25, 2005
Address: Cavala beach Resort
Website: www.cavala.com
North Indian food served in a great restaurant and at a great price (it was only the wine that was expensive). There was a good choice of dishes for both meat eaters and vegetarians alike.
Favorite Dish: We only went here once and the dish I chose chicken mughlai was lovely and not too spicy-in fact it was just right!
Written May 15, 2005
Address: Mahatma Gandhi road, Panjim
Phone: 0832-2222544
Typical delicious indian food for breakfast, lunch or dinner, available just above the beach behind the little luguna. Also beach huts, shacks available. If you have food and beverages the enclosed sunbeds on the beach are free of charge. I should have kept the secret.
The athmosphere is in particular fine in the morning because there is always a little breeze from the sea, it is quiet, but still enough life, the people in the surrounding shacks liklely still rest...service was fast too.
Favorite Dish: The vegetarian mushrooms and pea curry, the omelettes, juices.
Updated May 11, 2005
Address: Dunes Beach, Pernem, North Goa
"She who must be obeyed" and me enjoyed many visits to restaurants when we visited Goa in April (even though we were on all-inclusive) but the best experience must surely be our visit to the Delhi Darbar near the Levis Building in Panaji - you will immediately see it by the doorman in his white Sultan's outfit.
On a hot and humid day we revelled in the air-conditioning as we were treated truly like royalty by the staff, even though we were sweaty and dishevelled.
We weren't really hungry so asked if we could just have a starter and some drinks - it was no problem to them. I had a fish tikka starter and the wife had a chicken starter - there was so much fish/meat and salad that neither of us could finish it; the first time I have ever been defeated by a starter!
After explaining that the food was lovely but we just couldn't eat it all we asked about a small dessert - they brought us a complimentary single scoop vanilla ice cream, the usual annis seeds and a selection of sweets - then the waiter brought my wife a single red rose!
Favorite Dish: Fish Tikka - proportions to keep everyone happy!
Written Apr 23, 2005
Address: Panaji, Goa.
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