Scan Magazine | Restaurant of the Month | Denmark
The creamy Butter Chicken is one of the restaurant’s most popular dishes.
Curtrice and chilli prawns.
Restaurant of the Month, Denmark
Unique Indian restaurant making enjoyable Indian food for everyone’s taste buds Curry Leaves, a family-run Indian restaurant in the Danish harbour town of Sønderborg, was born from a simple aspiration – allowing Danes to experience the full richness of North and South Indian cuisine, no matter how hot or mild they like their lamb curry. By Linda A. Thompson | Photos: Curry Leaves
A couple of years ago, Sinthu Sivakumar, an electronic technician by training, wanted to head in a different career direction. For as long as she could remember, she and her husband, Sivakumar Sivasamy, had been whipping up Indian dishes for their friends. With every dinner party, they would prepare new dishes, taking their guests on a journey through the country’s rich cuisine and gradually expanding 132 | Issue 137 | December 2021
their taste palettes. The feedback from their friends was always the same: you two should open a restaurant. So, when she was ready for a career change, she decided to do just that. Together with her husband, Sinthu opened her restaurant Curry Leaves in Sønderborg, a small harbour town in southern Denmark, in 2014.
Opening their own Indian restaurant was also a dream of Sivakumar, an engineer by training. “He would come home from work and tell me that many of his colleagues had never tried Indian food before,” Sinthu explains. “This made him sad, as he felt they were missing out.” Curry Leaves is a true family restaurant. Sinthu and Sivakumar split the chef duties, while their two children serve the customers. From the sauces down to the spice mixes, everything is made from scratch at Curry Leaves, which is located close to the city’s harbour. The two chefs make daily shop
