The Rice Mill — Restaurant in Goa

Where do I begin. Snuck in a corner of a small alley in morjim(not Miami, morjim) this place is a coffee shop in the morning and doubles up to a jazz place on Saturday. Frequent visitors are Ofcourse predominantly Israeli and Russians.

Why the one star: I’m American Indian brown. In the morning when i go buy my coffee, the barista invites me and my friend another Guy to come to the evening jazz and takes our names down on the list.

Come evening time- the owner at the gate says to two brown men (us in this case)that he wont allow us to enter because he likes keeping the male:female ratio consistent. What was the point taking our names down and making us travel and wasting our time. Unlike the owner our time is more valuable. Secondly: If he wanted to keep the ratio constant he didn't need to shoo us away. He could've asked us to wait for sometime..... for there to be some women to enter in there.......Ofcourse he’s got these rules when mostly brown people come by there, but is pretty flexible when a white guy or a woman or any other race walks in. On the contrary he’s welcoming and also sits and chats around with them. Imagine living in the pre-British era in India where there were some landlords who really loved white so much. They started thinking of themselves as white and became discriminatory against their own race, in an effort to sk up to the Brits. Talk about kissing any a thats white.

So much if you are gay and are looking at being allowed in here. 🙄🙄 because as he mentioned he likes keeping the ratio of whatever that is. Because the moment we turned, he let a white guy in no questions asked and later on a single girl too as well.

the owner and his stooge(younger brother i guess) inadvertently practices casual sexism and makes race- based choices on who to let in on the jazz night. Ofcourse he likes having his crowd white.

My friend a SG-born brown guy and me - American are not used to racism and sexism wrapped around a term called - ‘house rules’ that his stooge kept using. And neither do we consider ourselves any inferior to be treated this shabbily and be okay with it. And we feel visibly discriminated. If this was the US I’d call the cops on the owner. For being a very tiny coffee shop in a meaningless part of the world, both the owner and his stooge (who are both brown btw) are over the top arrogant when talking down to brown people. Friendly reminder: their coffee shop ain’t a Michelin star in a Miami or ibiza or Montenegro to act snobbish. It’s just GOA lol.

White folks- you’ll feel royal here. But remember buying from a racist is supporting racism. And in todays day and age where there are more genders and identities other than male and female. This cafe discriminates by sex. So imagine you are supporting someone who believes in same orthodox gender types and gender roles.

Everyone else- the owner and this cafe is the anatomy of a racist/sexist undertone and behavior.. Don't spend your money on such people. Goto: HMBL around the corner, Garden of dreams in Arambol and many other nicer spots around. Don't get fooled by some reviews and the high google rating here, without any experiences of those reviewers. The place has gotten them posted here by offering a free cookie or smartly talking sweet with people just for a review, Just to keep those average google scores up. Highly recommend anyone else who has experienced similar, togo ahead write a review as well. I hope this makes some $$$ impact on their revenue, Because the cafe doesn't like brown...

The Rice Mill is one of the nicest place one must visit in Morjim. I went there at the beginning of November 2022 while travelling solo and believe you me this jazz cafe is all one needs. The amazing selection of jazz music, some good choices of meat with poi which goes well with some domestic wines served and the best part, the host. I met Agnelo, one of the cafe hosts one fine Tuesday and he welcomed me like I was home. He invited me personally to Thursday Jazz Night live which is a weekly affair and trust me, it is a must go event. Every week new jazz artist come along and play some lovely old classics. Henry from Barcelona did put in a performance so well on that night that I wished I could revisit again soon. Overall a very soothing place, though some of the brunch delicacies might take some time (I had ordered a Yogurt Tart which took more than half an hour to prepare, maybe cause it was something which wasn’t ordered frequently, but they prepared it well). I have their postcard on my wall and I relive the good week I spent at the rice...

This is to inform future prospective patrons of this restaurant/ cafe that there is no way you can park your car here safely. Secondly if you have booked this place without seeing the interiors, you can be assured you hav made a big mistake. We booked for 2 ppl for Saturday evening, struggled with parking for over half hour, and when we went in we were shown 2 bar stools. This is where the restaurant staff expected us to sit for 2 hrs to listen to jazz & have our dinner! Totally Unacceptable! Especially since we re both above 50 years of age. So we walked out knowing very well that we ll have to drive back to our hotel for over an hour to get some dinner. Coming from the hospitality industry myself, I understand if certain restaurants have few constraints such no designated parking or being in a bad location (both true for this place). Such restaurants put in greater effort to provide far better service. NONE of that service here in Rice Mill. They didn't even bother to offer an alternate comfortable...