Siolim House serves serious breakfasts, which is included in the price. You get a choice of tea or coffee, fresh fruit and fresh fruit juice, toast, and eggs prepared any style. Everything is made to order --- no continental buffet table here --- so you are really forced to enjoy a leisurely breakfast. Like with everything else about Siolim, their breakfasts were superb.
Clockwise from left: fresh juice cocktail (papaya and pineapple), tea, yogurt, fresh papaya and pineapple. DJKung and I were not used to the papaya, unfortunately. It had a burning sensation going down. 
This is a picture from another breakfast. Fresh watermelon juice was available that day. The coffee was pretty good too!
Scrambled egg on toast.
" Indian breakfast." This was a couscous-type dish flavored with mustard seeds and kaffir leaf. Reminded me a lot of Keralan cuisine, actually. Siolim House also serves light lunches and dinners, which you have to preorder, as everything is made fresh. On our last night, we splurged on their dinner. It was a good decision.
DJKung enjoying a predinner drink and some nibblin's.
Superfatty enjoying a predinner drink too. We both had King's Beer (available only in Goa--- the liquor laws seem pretty arcane in India; all the beers had regional boundaries where they can be sold, except for Kingfisher, the no. 1 brand)
We also chatted with other guests who opted to have dinner in-house that night. There were two English ladies, the jolly French dude, Varun and his friend from Vietnam, and Varun's mum. Varun treated us to a glass of Sula (chenin blanc?), which is India's biggest winemaker. It was crisp and dry, had a bit of a bite.
Then it was off to our own candlelit table by the pool. It was a clear night and the stars were out. It was really romantic, but DJKung and I kept giggling, we could not believe we were having this intimate, sophisticate dinner. And we were buzzed, too.
House rolls (we saw the kitchen staff kneading the dough that morning). It was chewy and buttery, went well with the rich French-style mushroom soup.
The infamous King's beer. Since this was our last night at Siolim, of course we had seconds (or was it thirds?). This was the best beer we've tried, flavorful, hoppy and pretty smooth. (The other two beers were Royal Challenge/Kerala, a watery lager, and Kingfisher, which was harsh and gave me a whopper of a hangover).
Rice with prawn chili fry and sauteed veggies. Chili fry seems to be the local Goan dish. The prawns were big, succulent and superfresh. DJKung said that this was excellent.
Steamed fish in spices and wrapped in banana leaf, rice, sauteed and fresh veggies. The fish was fresh, and the spice mix was just right. 
Dessert was ice cream topped with fruit preserves and syrup. We were stuffed.
The meals we've had at Siolim were just excellent. We were truly sad that we had to check out by the fourth day. DJKung and I highly recommend Siolim House with no reservations.
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