Goan cuisine is a blend of different influences over the centuries and the typical Goan staple food is rice, fish and coconut. The Goan people eat seafood and use prawns, lobsters, crabs and jumbo pomfrets to make their meals tasty and delicious. Coconut is an important ingredient in Goan cooking. Equally essential is kokum, a sour, deep, red colored fruit. The famous red Goan chilies and tamarind is also used in most of the dishes. Goan dishes have lots of spices that give them a distinctive taste. Coriander, turmeric, garlic, cumin and chilies are mostly used spices.

Goan food is basically non vegetarian and the main course of the meal consists of chicken, pork and seafood. There is an undeniable Portuguese influence in most of the dishes such as caldeirada, racheiado and cabidela. But Hindu Goan food is not influenced by Portuguese cuisine. Pork is always used in any festive occasion. The most famous Goan preparation is vindaaloo which is best enjoyed with plain boiled rice. Another yummy dish made of pork is sarpotel.

The most famous Goan sweet meat is the multi layered bebinca. It is made of flour, sugar, coconut milk and other flavors. Each layer is baked before adding another layer. Another sweet meat called dodol is made up of delicious palm sap jaggery, rich flour and coconut. There is another dessert known as rose-a-coque which is a flower like waffle that can be eaten alone or covered with cream or honey. Spicy and tangy chutneys are also major highlights of Goan Dining.

Almost all restaurants in Goa serve the variety of Goan dishes. Restaurants for all kinds of budgets are available in Goa which serves cheap as well as expensive food.

Other than the typical Goan dishes, the restaurants also serve Indian, Chinese, Manchurian Thai, Lebanese and continental dishes.

Goahub.com gives us a detailed account of the restaurants, specialties, rates and other necessary information regarding dining in Goa.