Goa Cafés That Became Part of the Journey
We spent almost every morning and quite a few afternoons hopping between cafés that slowly became pauses between beaches, drives, and sunsets. Here's where we'd happily find ourselves again.
🏝️ Eva Café, Anjuna:
Go for: Breakfast with a view you'll keep looking up from. Perched above the sea, Eva Café feels like someone built a little Greek balcony overlooking the Arabian Sea. We arrived for breakfast, stayed for the view, and ordered another coffee because leaving suddenly felt like a bad idea. The food was lovely, but honestly, the sea does half the work. QISSA Tip: go early — the quieter the café, the louder the waves.
🌿 Artjuna, Anjuna:
Go for: The kind of breakfast that accidentally becomes brunch. Artjuna doesn't feel like a café — it feels like a neighbourhood. People reading books, friends catching up, someone quietly working from a laptop, dogs wandering around like they own the place (they probably do), and somehow nobody seems to be in a hurry. We loved the food, we loved the vibe, and yes — the carrot cake absolutely deserves the hype. If we lived in Goa, we'd probably become regulars.
🌊 The Cape Goa:
Go for: One of the prettiest brunch spots in South Goa. Sometimes the drive to a café becomes part of the memory, and this is one of those places. You reach a cliff overlooking the sea, where the breeze refuses to stop and the view quietly steals the conversation. Also — we remember an alarming number of cats, which honestly only made us love it more.
☕ The Perfect Cup:
Go for: People watching. We landed here expecting breakfast and instead found one of the warmest cafés of the trip. Every table seemed to have its own story — friends reuniting, families celebrating, couples planning their day. You know that nice feeling of sitting somewhere long enough that you stop checking your phone? This was that place.
🥗 Greenr Goa:
Go for: A familiar pause. After days of beach shacks and Goan food, Greenr felt strangely comforting — like bumping into an old friend while travelling. Fresh food, a slower pace, and a nice little reset before diving back into Goa again.
🍔 Burger Factory:
Go for: Come hungry. No — hungrier than that. The burgers are ridiculously good and also ridiculously large. We ordered with full confidence and were humbled almost immediately. Zero regrets.
🍛 A Local Goan Restaurant in Fontainhas:
No Goa trip feels complete without trying authentic Goan food. We wandered into a small local restaurant while exploring Fontainhas and let curiosity do the ordering. Some dishes surprised us, some took a second bite to appreciate. Would we eat it every day? Probably not. Would we tell you to try it anyway? Absolutely. That's kind of the point of travelling.
🍰 One Unexpected Pattern...
We have a theory — Goa cafés are secretly competing to make the country's best carrot cake, and we're only half joking. Almost every café seemed to have one, and almost every one was excellent. So if you spot carrot cake on the menu, take it as a sign.
✨ One Last Suggestion
Don't build your Goa itinerary around cafés with the highest ratings — build it around how you want your day to feel. A beach-view breakfast. A lazy coffee after shopping. Cake because it suddenly started raining. A quiet corner to journal. A place where nobody minds if you order one coffee and stay for two hours. The best cafés rarely become your favourites because of the menu. They become your favourites because, for a little while, they feel like yours.
With love, always.
— su.i ✨