Brittos restaurant at Baga: best baked crabs and stuffed crabs in Goa

PANAJI: For gourmets and seafood lovers, undoubtedly the best baked and stuffed crabs in Goa are available at just one place – Brittos restaurant at Baga.

An iconic restaurant, which started off as a small shack in the mid-1960s, covered with dried coconut palm leaves with 4 tables, is now the pride of Baga and Goa as well.

It can accommodate a few hundred guests all at once and boasts of some the best sea food dishes in the entire North Goa belt.

It is right on the Baga beach, so one can enjoy the sunset, sipping wine or beer and digging into some mouth-watering Goan spicy sorpotel or vindaloo or even a tantalizing steak with veggies. The place excels in seafood, continental dishes as well as authentic Goan food and also does Chinese and North Indian cuisines.

Brittos restaurant serves a mouth-watering array of snacks as well as pastries and sweet dishes for the sweet-toothed and is so popular for its bakery items and snacks that other restaurants and hotels in the vicinity buy from them everyday.

Coming back to the topic of this article, Brittos has the catch of the day as well as live crabs, lobsters and sometimes prawns on display. You can choose your crab or lobster (or other seafood items) according to size, type and budget.

There are variations and options like butter-garlic, butter pepper, garlic chilly, plain salt-baked and even exotic Thai, Chinese, Japanese and other variations.

All the seafood items are freshly caught and fresh and cooked right before your eyes – well almost, as they are cooked in the kitchen, after you select your item.

The service is superb and the staff are warm and friendly. While crab and lobster dishes could be a bit expensive, you don’t dig into a succulent, butter garlic baked king crab everyday and its worth spending the extra bucks to try out an exotic seafood preparation.

In addition to baked crabs, the sumptuous seafood platter and the Brittos special fried chicken will keep your taste buds tingling and your tummy asking for more, while the pastries and snacks are simply out of this world.