Goa, Oct. 4 -- Vivek Menezes

It's difficult to recognize faces in this crowd of award-winning restaurateurs who ranked in the top 50 in India at the Conde Nast Traveller x District Top Restaurant Awards 2025 held in Mumbai earlier this week, but there are good number of stars from Goa in the mix: Ralph Prazeres is smiling on the carpet in the front, and there is Pranav Dhuri in his white jacket over to his right. In the back is the acclaimed culinary ambassador Avinash Martins, alongside five others representing India's smallest state, which occupied 8 of the rankings, in another demonstration of the power and prestige earned by this exemplary next gen wave of homegrown hospitality entrepreneurs. What is more, there could easily have bee...