PANAJI:  As a wave of nostalgia for Goan food sweeps the Konkan region, Goan expatriates and residents can rekindle the gastronomic delights of traditional Goan dishes at With Love, a restaurant opposite the Margao Kadamba bus terminal.

From the very young to the very old, people are seeking restaurants whose specialties include a farmer’s thali that consist of a bowl of kanji (boil rice soup), green chutney, dry prawns, fish fried, fish curry with rice. Although it sounds a poor man’s dish is becoming a delicacy for the rich especially the Goan expatriates who have rediscovered the taste of `the good old days,’ to reflect on topics of yesteryears.
For lunch With Love offers three types of thalis, the normal thali, the royal thali with 10 different items and the farmer’s thali.  The royal thali is as good as a buffet.
With Love restaurant design appears to be on a deck of a ship giving a sailing ambience to its clientele. It is a place for simplicity, genuineness and a return to the gentility of Goa’s pre-modern period.  Some original parts of a ship forms part of its interior. All forms of noises are avoided. It adheres to strict hygiene standards. In short you are at home With Love.
Indeed, notwithstanding the menu’s trendy aspirations, there’s no shortage of options for those whose appetites are whetted by the nostalgic surroundings. Chicken dishes, the dry fish xec xec are among other Goan delicacies. With Love is owned and managed by Mr Mike Metha, now a practicing lawyer. A Goan of many talents, Mr Metha started as a teacher in Guardian Angel High School, he then ventured into acting in Konkani dramas and was the first to introduce roadside barbecue in Goa in the 80s.