Ice-cream

Big Kid Ice Cream, which launched in 2022, has quickly become one of the best places for ice cream in London. Now, perfectly timed for the summer season, they're taking things one step further with Whippies, their new soft-serve outlet in Seven Dials Market. 

Behind it all will be their new Vanilla Whippy, a signature serve made with organic milk, brown butter and real Madagascan vanilla, which already sounds great on its own. That's then being used in an array of fabulous sundaes, including:

• Solero Knickerbocker - Peaches, mango

Just right when the weather is scorching and maybe even more so on the many, many days it's not - we pick out London's best ice cream and gelato purveyors. 

Now in its fifth year, fashion designer Anya Hindmarch’s Ice Cream Project is already raising eyebrows with flavour combinations that are strangely familiar (thanks to the theme of leaning on common larder/household items) yet a little perplexing when delivered in an ice-cream scoop or a 500ml takeaway tub. Indeed, ‘unexpectedly delicious’ is the tagline, but we don’t think anyone saw the likes of Euthymol Original Toothpaste coming!

Once again, the Anya Cafe will be the place to be (hot tip: book now – minimum of two people, £50 per person) for the Ice Cream Project Blind Tasting

With perfect timing for the current hot weather, a pop-up bakery is opening its doors in East London for the weekend, serving up a range of limited-edition cinnamon rolls in a collaboration with Magnum.

The Magnum After Hours bakery is an evening-only affair, which has taken over the Roll Boys bakery for the next two nights. It's going to be serving up three limited-edition Magnum Bonbon x Roll Boys cinnamon rolls:

• Milk Chocolate & Cherry
• White Chocolate & Cookies
• Gold Caramel Billionaire

"From the second the idea of

Creative flavours, inventive toppings - London's soft serve ice cream options this summer are spot on.

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If you love a visit to Ole & Steen, you'll be very familiar with their signature bake, the Cinnamon Social. It's already had something of a makeover for the summer months and

Every now and again, we can trust the marketing bods at KFC to have the absolute barmiest idea, and we thank them for that. Last Christmas, it was all about lickable wrapping paper, and now it's gravy-flavoured ice cream.

For this occasion, they've teamed up with

Goodbye Horses has opened a combo wine and ice cream bar just across the road, and it looks spectacular. We went down to have a scoop of ice cream and behold The Dreamery.  

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December might not seem like the most obvious time to launch an ice cream shop, but that's exactly what the team behind Goodbye Horses are doing. We knew at the time they originally opened the restaurant back in July that

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Lucky Islington residents are about to get a new coffee shop, wine bar and restaurant and an ice cream parlour, all in the space of a month or so. The three businesses by co-founders Alex Young and George de Vos are taking over the old Michael's Den pub on the borders of Islington and De Beauvoir.

First to open will be the coffee shop

For its third year, The Ice Cream Project by Anya Hindmarch is back. If you're unfamiliar with this slightly mad endeavour, it's an ice cream shop that focuses on some very unusual flavours. As ever, they're well-known brands, but definitely not something you'll find in the average ice cream. 

This year, there are returning

By this point. there have been quite a few successful Stranger Things pop-ups, but the launch of the new spin off play in the West End this month is giving the team behind it a new opportunity. This time, it's  Scoops Ahoy ice cream.

The ice cream shop featured prominently in series three and has popped up quite a few times across the globe too. There are two ways to get that ice cream - either in Pan-n-Ice shops (in

Last year, the launch of Anya Cafe's ice cream pop-up from Anya Hindmarch caused a bit of a stir. Rather than use plain old flavours like vanilla, they had mayonnaise, ketchup and even Lee and Perrins Worcestershire sauce.

Well, it proved to be something of a hit (TikTok certainly helped) and now they're back with another helping for

If you're into your gelato you'll probably have encountered Badiani, a Florentine gelato chain that's been slowly expanding across London, serving up flavours like cobnut, green tea, pear sorbet and more.

The next part of London they've scoped out for an opening is Balham, where they're going to be setting up shop next door to the popular cafe Milk. But Badiani are planning something very different for their spot in Balham.

Last summer they teamed up with Rambutan for a successful popup in Borough Market.  And this summer soft serve purveyors Soft & Swirly have hit up another market - Netil Market.

Over the intervening months, Sam Lowry (ex-Leilas) and Farah Kezouh have been busy working on tubbed ice cream with various folk including those at Postcard Teas and that series is now on sale at their stall in Netil consisting