Food & Drink

The 26 best drinks in Goa

The best drinks in Goa right now are not pricey imports, but are very much products of Goa. There are reportedly 3,000 micro-distilleries registered in Goa, set up in heritage Portuguese villas, palm tree-lined farms in the middle of nowhere and more. And with painstaking precision, they are reinventing your favourite alcohol: whisky, beer, gin, rum are all being infused with local and seasonal ingredients. Even feni and mahua have their own crusaders, ready to break into the mainstream.

Father’s Day 2021: 15 great whisky bottles (for every kind of budget) that your Dad will be delighted to add to his collection

No one forgets the first time their Dad offered them a carefully measured peg of their favourite whisky. It’s a rite of passage, one’s induction into adulthood with your first taste (not really, though he doesn’t need to know the number of times you’ve snuck into his liquor cabinet) of this bitter brown gold liquid poured out of a stunning bottle with a huge story behind it. Maybe you sat in silence as he played his favourite record, letting you partake in his daily unwinding ritual. Maybe you h

BrewDog Taproom: The Scottish brewery brings its world-famous craft beer to India, beginning with ‘midtown' Mumbai

Back in 2009, a small Scottish craft brewery encountered a sharp rise in popularity after it went neck-to-neck with German legend Schorschbraer in a race to create the strongest beer in the world. BrewDog, instituted by ex-lawyer James Watt and professional brewer Martin Dickie four years prior in the tiny fishing village of Fraserburgh, floated three extremely potent drinks: ‘Tactical Nuclear Penguin’, an imperial stout at 32% ABV, ‘Sink the Bismarck’, a quadruple IPA with 41% alcohol content a

These are the 19 best bars in Goa

The best bars in Goa don't necessarily offer you a view of the sunset; they're often joints with a fiercely loyal patronage, often located down some dusty, nondescript street, or the edge of a cliff, that Google Maps can't help you with. That is to say: To truly understand and enjoy Goa’s lively tavern culture, you have to look past the popular tourist haunts and befriend a local. There’s no better way to nurse a freshly-brewed batch of Urrak than to be in someone’s home, or a humble village bar

Best Restaurants in Goa: GQ's definitive list of the 25 places to dine at in Goa in 2021

With its sun-downers and seafood that includes rava-fried prawns and butter-garlic squids, Goa has witnessed quite a change in its culinary landscape over the last few years. And the people spearheading this scene have also realised that for the best restaurants in Goa to survive, they can’t simply rest on the laurels of the stunning views of the sea and beaches. The menu needs to be intriguing and thoughtfully created, and the food equally delicious. The pandemic has of course ravaged this scen

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