Spice Times is a quarterly business to business magazine that is distributed to South Asian restaurants across the UK. The magazine published its first issue in 2006 with news and features that are pertinent to the restaurant trade.

Regular features

Spice Times features a news section that has a stories ranging from product news to restaurant news including openings and celebrity appearances.

The South Asian and the World section includes the latest Bollywood news and trade news from the sub-continent.

Health issues are talked about in the Doctor Doctor section and usually focuses on a single health disease. Diabetes and heart disease have been past features.

Other non-regular features have been interviews with chefs and cricket stars such as Graeme Swann

Graeme Swann

Graeme Peter Swann is an English international cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm offspinner, and also bats right-handed. After initially playing for his home county Northamptonshire, for whom he made his debut in 1997, he moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005. He often fields at slip...

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Spice Times Restaurant Awards

In the summer of 2010, Spice Times launched the Spice Times Restaurant Awards. It is the first publicly voted South Asian restaurant awards and the public can vote for their favourite restaurant online using the website.

Pepsi

Pepsi

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 are the main sponsors of the awards and it can be seen on a number of BSkyB television channels including Channel S

Channel S

Channel S is a UK-based, free-to-air television channel targeting the British Bangladeshi community. The channel was established on 16 December 2004, by Mahee Ferdous Jalil - a Bangladeshi businessman in London. On Sky it had a timesharing deal with ATN Global, and then in 2005 it started to...

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The Last Days of the Raj were overall winners, winning the national award.

The Viceroy in Carlisle also won the best North West region award.

The 2010 awards were hosted by Tasmin Lucia Khan

Tasmin Lucia Khan

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 who will reprise her hosting duties for the 2011 awards, to be held at the London Hilton.