Suburban foodies had only begun to appreciate the authentic Goan food in a cool, beach shack-like ambiance at Bandra’s Café Goa and poof! It was gone. Despite rave reviews, crowds throughout the week and even a recommendation on CNN Travel — the restaurant, which opened in 2009, had to down its shutters by 2011. As has increasingly become the norm than the exception, two years seem to be the average life span of the archetypal Bandra restaurant.

Illustration/Amit Bandre.