How it started:

       The credit for introducing Indian cuisine in the Baltic Region goes to Rajinder Kumar Chaudhary, affectionately called "Raj" by friends and colleagues. He retired from the Indian Air Force as wing commander and settled down in this region in the early 90's. It was the dream of his late wife Suwvarna (Sue) to open a chain of Indian restaurants. To fulfill this dream, after Sue's tragic death, Raj opened the first "Sue's Indian Raja" at Vilnius on the 9th April 1998. Another one bearing the same name was opened at Riga in October 2000.

        During the next four years, in partnership with and the active support of Dr Lina skutaite, (whom he married later) he opened six restaurants in the Baltics - at Tallin, Parnu, Riga and Jurmala. Quite appropriately, they were all named after "Sue" who had dreamt of such a chain.

         However, due to pressure of work and some other problems, Raj and Lina had to scale down their business. In Latvia where they had three restaurants, the exclusive Thai restaurant - "Sue ka Thai" on Aurcicl street in Riga was closed down in May 2003. The other two Sues Indian Raja at Vecpilsetas (Old Riga) and Sue's Asia at Jurmala (On Jomas street) were sold to Jatinder Grewal in January and April 2004 respectively.

         Both the Restaurants have now been resold by Jatinder Grewar to Nordic Partners (an offshore company) and SIA Sue's chain of Restaurants in August 2005.