More than just a curry house. A brief look at 20 Indian restaurants in Sydney as examples of the changing face of Indian food in Australia.

    9 June 2025

    June 2025

    I remember a time when there were only half a dozen Indian restaurants in Sydney all with the same menu – Fish Curry, Beef Curry, Eggplant Curry, and Dhal  – all of which were the same colour   – a dull browny red – and pretty much all were the same taste seemingly from a single curry paste.

    Times have changed and Indian restaurants have changed with them. I want to look at the breadth of Indian cuisine available in Australia today. I do this by looking at the online menus of 20 Indian restaurants in Sydney. I recognise that these changes may not be happening in rural or remote areas.

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    Paul van Reyk
    My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.