Goa is a Bebinca
- INR 499
- Culinary Arts
- Performance
Curated by
Chef Manu Chandra
Casa San Antonio
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
What makes a place linger in memory—its performance, its people and its flavour?
Chef Manu Chandra and paChaak invite you an immersive theatrical dining experience set in the heart of Fontainhas, Panjim’s Old Latin Quarter. This project transforms a heritage venue into a living taverna—a vibrant stage of the 1980s where Goa’s identity was forged. The tavernas were cultural crossroads where Konkani and Portuguese mingled, where politics, flower power, and poetry shared tables, and where the everyday became art. Here, theatre, memory, and cuisine converge to recreate that essential warmth and nostalgia.
The central drama, Goa is a Bebinca, is a layered slice of Goan history. Maria, a firecracker of a woman, runs her family’s taverna and is keen to put the business on the map; her father, fiercely rooted in tradition, is opposed. The performance invites you to inhabit that world: to eat, listen, and remember as stories unfold between courses—of migration, fading traditions, and a community fighting for its identity. This isn't just a taste-off; it is a reflection on cultural preservation.
Through Chef Manu Chandra’s contemporary reimagining of Goan flavours and paChaak’s sensorial design, this show becomes a crucial dialogue between past and present. It asks: What does it mean to taste diversity and change?
This is a living, breathing feast that explores how tradition and innovation coexist, celebrating a place that still invites strangers to sit together and find themselves in each other’s stories.
Credits:
Manu Chandra - Food
Shubhra Chatterji - Writer
Deepa Rani - Producer
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