Traditional and truly Goan, your search for the best fish thali ends here.
Goa is most well known for it’s party scenes followed by the mouth watering seafood. Streets of Goa are flanked with tiny hole in the wall cafes and restaurants serving seafood thalis (fish meals). But with so many options at every nook and corner, it’s tough figuring out the authentic from the, well, just cliched!
Bombil, a tiny restaurant with a huge reputation for serving authentic homestyle Goan meals with side dishes of love and smiles. The place has a cute setup and a very old school, no-fuss vibe to it. Just a bunch of happy people serving the best Goan culinary delights to a bunch of hungry eager tourists and locals.
The menu constants are the vegetarian and non-vegetarian thalis of which rice and curries are unlimited. The curries include various preps (cafreal, xacuti, vindaloo) of chicken, mutton, prawns, squid and which keep changing basis availability. The bearers go around serving their in-house pickles which include brinjal pickle, garlic pickle, fish pickle and an extremely spicy something. (They also sell these lip-smacking pickles.) It’s truly a non-vegetarian’s paradise with several varieties of local fishes other than the regular and most famous king fish. For the vegetarians, umm, the options are few. A limited drinks menu of kokum based mocktails is available to wash down all the delicious grub with.
King fish thali
Brown rice, a vegetable, prawn curry, tiny local fish fry, clams, crushed papad with herbs, chicken soup, rava fried king fish, kokum.
Kokum soda
This one was a winner!
Wall mural outside Bombil
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