Goa’s retail scene has quietly moved on from flea markets and souvenir stalls to something far more considered: designers and collectors who’ve turned centuries-old Portuguese-Goan homes into boutiques, ateliers tucked behind unmarked gates in Siolim and Moira, and concept stores where the person who greets you at the door is usually the one who curated everything on the shelf. Nothing here is trying too hard to be found. You have to already know or be told.
Whether you’re after slow-fashion cottons woven a few kilometres from where you're standing, a vintage find with a well-travelled backstory, or a heritage villa that happens to double as a shop, here’s where to find Goa’s most compelling shopping experiences.
The by-appointment insiders
280 Siolim by Savio Jon
Goa-based designer Savio Jon has turned his own home in the forested lanes of Siolim into a boutique that’s an archive, an atelier, and his life story, all at once. Gable-tiled roofs, textured white walls, and vintage grey terrazzo floors hold tabletops piled with the things Jon has collected over decades and add to the feeling that you’re being let into someone’s private world rather than a store. There’s crockery and antique jewellery, artefacts, textiles, and of course his own line of soft, airy, coastal-climate clothing.
The Nod recommends: If you ask nicely, Jon might pull out a stack of vintage jeans and offer to upcycle a pair for you with a patchwork of textiles.
Address: 280, Siolim, Goa (by appointment)
Ranji, Moira
Designer and stylist Ranji Kelekar’s home and studio in the village of Moira is essentially a shoppable extension of his own taste. Think rooms filled with global decor finds sourced from vintage and flea markets around the world. There are no rules to how Ranji styles a space, and he’ll happily tell you as much—pair the blue and white porcelain crockery with silver candlestands, add glassware from Japan and linen from Paris, mix old and new, mix eras, mix continents. If you’re lucky, lunch might be involved.
The Nod recommends: Go in with time to spare and ask Ranji for a styling tip or two. It’s half the reason people come back.
Address: House No 240, Moira, Goa (by appointment)
Wunderhaus Handmade
Founder and designer Kedar Maddula runs Wunderhaus out of the lesser-known neighbourhood of Uccasaim, working almost entirely in unisex, free-size silhouettes woven by hand across different regions of India. The label leans into the diversity of India’s handloom traditions rather than any one region’s signature, which means the collection changes texture and story from one visit to the next. There’s no walk-in storefront in the conventional sense. This is a studio you write in for, and the visit itself is part of the experience.
The Nod recommends: The handspun khadi cotton T-shirts combine brightly coloured ikat and batik.
Address: Uccasaim, Goa (by appointment via Instagram DM)
