Panjim · Goa · 100% plant-based

Vegetables, plated like the main event.

A little green kitchen off the Fontainhas lanes, cooking whatever the Goan monsoon-fed farms send us that morning — no imitation meat, just produce treated with real intent.

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Overhead colourful vegan buddha bowl with avocado, chickpeas, roasted sweet potato, spinach, lemon and quinoa in organic curved sections
TodayHarvest bowl
Picked this morningFontainhas & Taleigão growers
Close-up of just-harvested fresh vegetables including red peppers, broccoli and ginger in a wooden bowl

“We cook the field, not a recipe.”

Our story

It started with one over-full vegetable basket.

In 2019 our founder was living above a Fontainhas provisions shop, buying more than she could ever eat from the growers who set up along Rua de Ourem at dawn. The tomatoes were sweeter than anything shipped in, the drumstick leaves greener — and most of it was cooked as a sideline to something else.

Cress & Clover began as a stubborn question: what if the vegetable was the point? We opened a six-table room, wrote the menu around whatever the monsoon and the tide allowed, and refused to hide any of it behind imitation meat. Everything is plant-based, most of it grows within a short drive, and none of it apologises for being a vegetable.

  • Grown nearFarms we can drive to before lunch service.
  • Whole plantStalks, leaves and peels become stock, not bin.
  • Honestly veganNo dairy, no eggs, no mock-meat theatre.

— Aanchal, founder

Where our produce grows

On the field this week.

Our menu is drawn from a short list of growers around Panjim. Tap a season to see what's coming into the kitchen — and where it's coming from.

June – September on the plate

  • Drumstick leaves
  • Brinjal
  • Sweetcorn
  • Oyster mushrooms
  • Red rice
  • Ladyfinger
Saraswati's Plot, TaleigãoLeafy greens, gourds & drumstick
6 km
Zuari Riverside Co-op, CortalimRed rice, field beans & kokum
18 km
Chorão Island GrowersMushrooms, herbs & edible flowers
11 km
Modern cafe table set against a lush wall of leafy green plants beside a sunlit window
15.50°N, 73.83°EEverything within 40 km of the pass
Hands pouring a vibrant green smoothie into a glass at a fresh juice counter with limes on a wooden table
The person at the pass

Meet Aanchal Sequeira.

“A carrot picked at dawn doesn't need much from me — a little fire, a little salt, and the confidence to leave it alone.”

Aanchal trained in Bengaluru and ran a vegetable-forward supper club for four years before moving home to Goa. She writes the menu each week around her morning market walk, and you'll usually find her plating at the pass rather than hiding in an office.

Aanchal SequeiraFounder & Head Chef
Kind words

Guests who came back.

We're a small room, so the same faces return — here's what a few of them tell their friends.

“I came in a committed carnivore and left texting everyone about a beetroot tartare. That aubergine is genuinely one of the best things I've eaten in Goa.”

Rhea FernandesPanjim · regular

“Finally a fully-vegan kitchen that doesn't lecture you or fake the meat. The menu changes every time and it's never once been boring.”

Kabir NaikMiramar · twice a week

“We booked for a birthday and Aanchal built a whole tasting menu around what came in that morning. Thoughtful, generous and quietly brilliant.”

Maria D'SouzaDona Paula · celebrated with us
Visit us

Off the Fontainhas lanes.

Tucked beside the footbridge in Panjim's old Latin quarter. Walk-ins welcome for two; do reserve for larger tables or weekend evenings.

Find us9 Rua de Ourem, near the Fontainhas footbridge, Panjim, Goa 403001
Opening hours
  • Tue – Fri 8:00 – 22:00
  • Sat – Sun 8:30 – 23:00
  • Monday Rested & restocking
Talk to us+91 93157 76817 · enquiries via the form
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