Ice n Spice named Toowoomba’s best Indian restaurant

With a landslide of votes, a much-loved family-owned business has taken the title of the Garden City’s best Indian restaurant. Meet them here:

In a competition of tastebuds filled with curries, paneer and butter chicken, a family-owned Indian restaurant has topped the polls with a landslide of votes.

Ice ‘N’ Spice has been crowned the Garden City’s best Indian restaurant.

Behind the bright orange shopfront just a couple of retail spaces up from the Chronicle Arcade on Margaret St is a dining room delight of warm hues, brightly coloured red and yellow chairs and a gold lined ceiling.

Customers are greeted with the well-known hospitality of owners Jasvinder Jammu and Gurpreet Kaur, who have been serving up an array of Indian curries and dishes in Toowoomba for more than a decade.

Gurpreet said they were very proud to be awarded the best Indian restaurant in the city.

Ice N Spice co-owner Gurpreet Kaur (centre) with head chef Satyapal Singh and chef Mandeep Kaur as the restaurant is named Toowoomba's best Indian restaurant in an online poll of The Chronicle readers, Friday, January 17, 2025. Picture: Kevin Farmer

“We make our food from the heart,” Jasvinder said.

Serving recipes from their family home in north India with a head chef who has worked in five-star restaurants in Dubai, Gurpreet said they use authentic spices with the dishes all made from scratch in their kitchen.

Jasvinder and Gurpreet met when they were both working and studying in Brisbane in the 2000s.

Gurpreet was working at a cafe in Brisbane and Jasvinder asked her out for a coffee which would changed their lives forever.

When the couple moved to Toowoomba for permanent residency they liked it so much they never left, and had their first child together, which they said was this restaurant, which first location was at Northlands Shopping Centre 11 years ago.

“We look after this restaurant like its our child,” Gurpreet said.

Ice N Spice owners Gurpreet Kaur and Jasvinder Jammu with their sons Ekamvir (centre) and Armaanvir Jammu as the restaurant is named Toowoomba's best Indian restaurant in an online poll of The Chronicle readers, Friday, January 17, 2025. Picture: Kevin Farmer

Soon Ice ‘N’ Spice outgrew their space at Northlands, so they moved to Bell St mall, only to outgrow that two years ago and take on the lease at the shopfront along Margaret St.

Now they sing the praises of the city, happily raising their two sons here.

And the city has sung its praise back to them – crowning their restaurant as Toowoomba’s best Indian restaurant with 45 per cent of the vote.

They were followed by Royal Indian Toowoomba, who received 19 per cent of the vote, and Everest Spice with 13 per cent.