Curry Leaf Restaurant The, Colorado Springs, Colorado Restaurant Details

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My husband and I love trying ethnic food so we tried Sri Lankan food. There are less than 10 sri lankan restaurants in the entirety of the United States, and we happened to get lucky because there happens to be one in Colorado Springs! The food was very delicious and rich. We ordered the coconut roti, chicken curry, and dahl curry. Everything was tasty. The owner even chatted with us for a while and taught us a lot about the Sri Lankan culture and language which was an awesome experience for us.

I really loved the Chai and recommend it! I couldn't stop sipping on my husband's cup of tea, it was delicious. It does take a while to receive the chai but only because it takes a while to make the chai (you have to boil the water, then add sugar and spices, then a teabag, and then milk, boil it, then simmer).

All in all, it was an amazing experience and I recommend this restaurant to anyone who is interested in exotic cuisines, spicy food, and a new cultural experience.

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DO NOT EAT AT THE CURRY LEAF, YOU COULD BECOME SICK. I am a former employee of The Curry Leaf Restaurant and I have seen how the owner Lana Hilstrom runs this place. Many times I have witnessed customers being lied to about what on the menu is vegan and what isn't. Almost every dish is pre-made weekly and then stored in plastic containers. The dishes are then heated in the microwave WHILE in over used, half melted, non-microwave safe PLASTIC CONTAINERS, which can cause the food to become contaminated with phthalates and BPA. The owner, Lana, also takes advantage of high school students by making them work 10 hour shifts with no breaks, stealing there cash tips because they are "in training", and NEVER PAYING THEM FOR THE TIME THEY WORKED AT THE CURRY LEAF! I know that this review seems as if it were written by a single bitter ex-employee, but the fact of the matter is that I am only one of about 5 employees that worked for Lana that she never payed, and that is only counting the ex-employees I have met. During my time employed at The Curry Leaf Restaurant I witnessed Lana fire an employee because she felt that the employee was "bad luck" and fire another employee because he was African-American. I am asking anyone who reads this review to carefully think about whether or not they want to eat a restaurant that treats employees so poorly and values customers health so lowly.

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My wife and I tried this place on the recommendation of a friend, and we were blown away. We tried the Chicken Curry, Dahl, and Deviled Beef. We also ordered the Roti which is the traditional Sri Lankan bread. All of the food was superb. We enjoy spicy food, so we ordered it on the high end of medium spice and it had some serious kick to it. Lana, the owner, was really charming and assured us that the food could be made quite mild if requested. We have never had Sri Lankan food before and expected something like Indian food. This was similar, yet very different, and way better.

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If you want some really good curry..I highly recommend little Nepal or mirch masala. This place was no bueno and left me feeling sad inside..and still hungry.

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Our experience was both good and not so good, started first we ordered a salad, the server informed us they ran out of cukes, so we choose another, he comes back regrettably there are no more salads for that day. so we ordered our meals, the server did not know how the Maldavie fish was prepared. We ordered it anyway.
The waiting seemed forever, as we were going to have salads, oh well
Finnaly everything came, was delicious the sauces, the meats the lentils.
I think some soft music preferably from Sri Lanka, would also be nice, was awkwardly quiet in there. They could use a busboy, the server was doing double duty, and keeping a smile at same time.
We may be back hard to say, music, more knowledge about menu. Maybe