Cafe Day Indian Coffee

Last year we visited Cafe Day in Baga opposite Ronil Beach and found that they served really good fresh coffee, the coffee was grown in India. The cafe was a bit like Costa with a Goan twist!We ended up there each morning and evening. For anybody else that enjoys good coffee it was a real find. Does anybody know of any other good coffee shops in Goa. Its the ONLY english thing we cant leave behind.

Cafe Day Indian Coffee

Barista Coffee also has a few cafes around Goa.

Cafe Day Indian Coffee

Theres a Cafe Day in Colva, lovely coffee, and fab chocolate cake with choco sauce. Just yummy!!!

Willl deffo be going there again inn a few weeks to top up the calories!!!!!!!

Mmm, will have to visit the Cafe Day in Colva when we go back to Cavelossim - that chocolate cake sound delicious!

There is also a Cafe Day in the middle of Calangute (but with no Toilet?!), and a much better one on the outskirts of Candolim.

They seem to be all over India, we even saw them in Kerala.

You can buy roasted coffee beans in Goa too - we always bring some back for the freezer. The coffee is lovely. (Freezing coffee beans is the best way to keep them btw.) We once had a rather embarrassing situation in Hospet where we wanted to buy coffee beans and no-one knew what we meant. Then we discovered they%26#39;re known there are coffee seeds...

';Its the ONLY english thing we cant leave behind.';

I had to smile when I read that. Neither tea nor coffee are ';English';, of course :)

India has the world%26#39;s best shade-grown %26#39;mild%26#39; coffees. What makes India unique is that we are the only country in the world that grows all of its coffee under shade. Coffee started in India - or so the story goes - when the legendary saint Bababudan brought seven magical beans from distant Yemen and planted them in the Chandragiri hills of Karnataka. The south is therefore the heartland of coffee, whereas north India drinks tea.

Typically mild and not too acidic, our coffees have what the coffee board calls ';an exotic full-bodied taste and a fine aroma';. We have been exporting a remarkable variety of high-quality coffees for over one hundred and fifty years now.

OK, history lesson over, I%26#39;ll get back to email

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Cheers,

- Deepa

Hi Deepa,

Thanks for the %26#39;history lesson%26#39;. Pleased to find out more about Indian coffee because we realy did develop a taste for it and ended up taking some home with us. Pleased to hear that it is being exported but so far we have not found any in the UK - not even in Leeds where we live.

I knew that coffee was grown in the south but until last year had not been able to find anywhere to get a decent cup in Goa (before anyone picks me up on that one, I do not count instant).

Thanks to everyone that has contributed to this thread so far.

Cheers,

Fozie2

25% of coffee exports from India go to Italy. The next biggest importer is Russia, about 12% of the exports go there. Germany, Spain and Belgium between them account for 20%. The UK imports very little Indian coffee.

Mind you, all of the above are not branded coffee exports - we export the beans and then they are processed in the importing country.

In Scandinavian countries, a special kind of coffee bean from India is popular - it is called ';Monsooned Coffee';. Interestinly, monsooned coffee happened by accident, when coffee stored in the hold of a ship bound for Europe swelled up with the moisture in the air and acquired a mellow taste. It became so popular that this process, called ';Monsooning'; began to be done deliberately.

My family are coffee drinkers and we take pride in the coffee we serve at home. South Indian filter coffee is a matter of great importance, and the domestic skills of a household are judged by the excellence of the coffee brewed and served. ';First class coffee';, pronounced my grandfather when my mother-in-law first served him. It was the ultimate seal of approval for my wedding :)

- Deepa

We can get Monsooned coffee in the UK as well - in our local Waitrose, if anyone%26#39;s interested. I haven%26#39;t tried it - to be honest I%26#39;m more of a tea drinker than a coffee drinker.

Re Cafe Day - I did say earlier that the Candolim CDay was good................

Well, we called in there today around 2 pm after a hot morning driving about shopping etc - DISASTER!!

We ordered some cold water, for NOW please, because we were so hot, and 2 x sndwiches, and 1 x submarine, and we were looking at the menu for some special coffees etc.

Ages, and not busy, then the sandwiches etc came, I had to ask for the water again, Now please. He looked at me like I was loopy, but got it.

We drank, then discovered that they had %26#39;Heated%26#39; the sandwiches etc for some reason - ????!!! - no mention of this in the menu, or at the counter where we had ordered.

We called the waiter over and said that we had expected, and wanted, normal cold sandwiches. He took them away.

Ages again, then they re-appeared, and seemed to be cold............ but only on the outside!!!! They had put them in the freezer or something, but the inside was still warm........... very dangerous!!!

By this time we just had ordered our coffees (at last!) too, so we cancelled everything, paid for the water, and left.

At that point they said that they would get us some cold sandwiches - too late!!

It%26#39;s a shame - we often go in there for a speciality coffee/Chocolate, but they have now lost us as customers!