Izumi Assagao

A Japanese restaurant inside a boutique guesthouse in Assagao, where giant palms shade an indoor-outdoor room that looks out over a pool. The original outpost in Mumbai built a following among people serious about Japanese food, and this Goa sibling carries the same ambitions north. The cocktail list leans hard into Japanese pantry ingredients, yuzu, umeshu, shiso, and is worth starting with before anything else arrives.