Best Seafood in Goa: Prawns, Mackerel, Lobsters, Crabs, Squids, Oysters, Clams, Pomfret, Kingfish and the works!

PANAJI: If you are a sea foodie and relish and cherish good, tasty seafood (like we do) then your holiday in Goa would definitely be incomplete without the right spot or restaurant for the best seafood dishes in town.

Be it recheado prawns, stuffed lobster, recheado bangdo (mackerel), recheado pomfret, fried squids, fried prawns, clams, Tisreo Sukhem, crab xacuti, butter garlic crab, baked crabs, butter garlic lobster, prawn curry or the humble Goan fish curry rice, the very mention of these names or words make most sea foodies experience pangs of hunger and a loud, almost audible grumbling inside their stomachs.

Without much fuss, let us introduce the best seafood place in Goa and that too one on the Queen of Goan beaches – undoubtedly it is the iconic, Goan culinary institution that sits right on the Calangute beach – the 90-year-young Souza Lobo restaurant.

Souza Lobo is a landmark at Calangute and with a vantage location right on the beach, its excellent sea food, steaks, tandoori, grilled and traditional Goan dishes, as well as continental fare for the Brits and Europeans, who throng the place during the peak tourist months of December and January, it has attracted people from far and near, drawn by the common love for gourmet cuisine and sea food in particular.

This fine dine restaurant that started of as a bed and breakfast place 90 years ago, today serves Goan, Indian, Chinese and Continental food, not to forget fusion cuisine for the discerning guest who loves to experiment gastronomically.

The quality of the seafood is among the best in Goa and only freshly caught seafood is cooked and served here.

Some of the dishes worth mentioning, which are a rage among their guests include butter garlic prawns, butter garlic crab, stuffed crab, baked crab, stuffed lobster, tandoori crab, recheado squids, recheado pomfret, sausage pulao, chouriço pão or choris pao (Goan spicy sausage served with bread), kingfish fry, mixed seafood balchao and nearly a dozen more.

In additional to the conventional dishes both Goan, Chinese and North Indian, rice and curry and fish fry, trademark traditional Goan food like Mutton Xacuti, Crab Xacuti and Chicken Cafreal, they also do various exotic preparations for the gastronomically inclined, like the Crab Kulcha, Recheado Prawn Parathas, Sorpotel Naans, Chicken Xacutti Phulka, Sausage Parathas and the famous Souza Lobo Seafood Tower, which is essentially a three-level seafood platter.

Along with the exotic dishes mentioned above, the restaurant’s bar stocks some of the finest wines, champagnes, sparking wines and alcoholic beverages and its in-house team of mixologists are experts at putting together some fabulous cocktails and mocktails as well as coolers and beverages.

With all this variety and the finest and freshest quality, no doubt Souza Lobo is the first choice or destination for seafood lovers from across the world.

What we recommend: The Souza Lobo restaurant at Calangute is known across Goa (and India) for their fabulous flagship Recheado Pomfret, Recheado Prawns, Recheado King Prawns, Recheado Bangdo, Recheado Squids and the recently introduced experimental or fusion food – Recheado Prawn Parathas, Cafreal Kulchas, Sorpotel Naans and Crab Kulchas.

They also make the best (and authentic Goan) Chicken Xacuti (Read Here) as well as Crab Xacuti  (Read Here) in all of Goa.