About Us
Brief summary
Spicylicious is a small restaurant, coffee shop and take away located in the busy Groenkloof/Brooklyn Business Centre of Pretoria. With a focus on promoting food diversity in South Africa, the owner of Spicylicious has provided an affordable Durban Indian menu to ensure that everyone can have the opportunity to enjoy a tasty Indian meal without having to endure an expensive fine dining bill at the end of a meal.
The aim of the restaurant team is to provide customers with a local eating experience that is relaxed and laid back, where you can enjoy a scrumptious home-style Durban Indian meal.
Coffee Shop
Spicylicious is a great place for a quick business meeting, where you can grab a cup of coffee and a savoury snack in the form of a plate of samoosas or a spicy curry pie. Toasted sandwiches with a Spicylicious twist or a light salad if “curry is not your thing” are also part of our menu. We also have a selection of Durban tea time sweet treats, where a bowl of creamy soji, a decadent Gulab Jamun or one of our speciality fruit muffins will make your day.
Take Aways
A substantial take away menu is available for you to order one of our Durban style curries, served as a bunny chow, a roti roll or with a healthy serving of rice, accompanied by a traditional carrot salad side dish
Catering
The Origins of Durban Curry that Inspired the Spicylicious Menu
Over the year’s many people have attempted to trace the evolution of Durban Indian Cuisine, based on the influence of the South Indian Indentured labours who came to work on the Sugar Cane Plantations at the Port of Durban more than 150 years ago.
Durban curry is unique and not found in India today, as it is a diverse adaptation of curry specific to Durban, South Africa. Most recipes are made of a combination of spices imported from India over the years, adapted and merged with wholesome local ingredients found in South Africa. This combination offers “the best of both worlds” in the form of a range of meat and vegetarian dishes that people of all races are familiar with, as everyone who loves spice will enjoy a Durban curry
Whether, it be Aunty Devi’s savoury fish curry spiked with tamarind and curry leaves, Kovilan’s hot and spicy duck curry, Kubaashan’s aromatic mutton curry or Rosham’s appetising chicken curry studded with melting potatoes, every family in Durban has a relative that they acknowledge as a specialist in making one of the curry dishes, that we offer on our Spicylicious menu … not in Durban but in Pretoria!
Our Spicylicious recipes have their roots seeped in family secret recipes and cooking techniques that have been passed through the generations. Based on this Heritage of cooking, Durban curry was labelled a national dish in 1961 in the Indian Delights recipe book written by Zuleikha Mayat and the Women’s Cultural Group.
The most famous Durban curry dish that inspired the Spicylicious menu is definitely the bunny chow that is a hollowed-out quarter-loaf of white bread filled with a meat curry or even more popular, a filling of spicy sugar beans curry and potatoes. Spicylicious also serves some less conventional treats such as the butter chicken bunny chow to tempt your taste buds.
As time has moved on, people have become more health conscious, and veganism has emerged as a preferred diet. Spicylicious has opted to add a range of vegan friendly (non – dairy) vegetarian dishes to our menu. We also provide two rice option being the traditional Durban long grain brown rice or the ever-famous low GI Basmati rice to suit everyone’s preferences. However, if rice is not your thing then there’s always a traditional stack of roti to opt for instead.
We hope that all our customers find that the Spicylicious menu captures the true essence of Durban Curry… and that the taste of our food reminds you of your mother curry back in Durban!
As time has moved on, people have become more health conscious, and veganism has emerged as a preferred diet. Spicylicious has opted to add a range of vegan friendly (non – dairy) vegetarian dishes to our menu. We also provide two rice option being the traditional Durban long grain brown rice or the ever-famous low GI Basmati rice to suit everyone’s preferences. However, if rice is not your thing then there’s always a traditional stack of roti to opt for instead.
We hope that all our customers find that the Spicylicious menu captures the true essence of Durban Curry… and that the taste of our food reminds you of your mother curry back in Durban!