Goa is a Bebinca

Goa is a Bebinca

  • INR 499
  • Culinary Arts
  • Performance

Curated by
Chef Manu Chandra

Casa San Antonio
14th December - 21st December
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
14th December - 21st December
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
14th December - 21st December
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
14th December - 21st December
06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
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What makes a place linger in memory—its performance, its people, its flavour?

Set in Fontainhas, Panjim’s old Latin Quarter, this immersive experience transforms a heritage venue into a living taverna. Goa’s tavernas were more than watering holes. They were at the intersection of identities, where Konkani and Portuguese mingled; where everyday life, politics, flower power and poetry shared tables; and where the quotidian became art.

The central drama, Goa is a Bebinca, is a layered slice of Goan history. Mary, 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
Divya Rani - Director

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