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Ice-cream
- Try glow-in-the-dark ice cream and inhale vanilla fog at SCOOP from Bompas & Parr
South London Willy Wonkas Bompas & Parr are at it again, this time with a seasonal ice-cream exhibition in King’s Cross that celebrates the dessert - with more than a few immersive installations.
SCOOP: The Wonderful World of Ice Cream will be settling in for a summer residency at Gasholders London in King’s Cross. Inside, you’ll be able to marvel at all kinds of ice-cream ephemera as you
... - Bleeding burgers, boozy popsicles, the return of Rita's and more - your weekly news round-up
From more bleeding burgers to the return of Rita's, we bring you all the news that was fit to print (but we just didn't get around to covering elsewhere this week)...
- Blondies Kitchen are popping up in Carnaby with soft serve milk ice cream and cookies
To us, very little says summer more than soft-serve ice cream (or just "soft ice cream" as we used to know it). So we're very much looking forward to the next pop-up from Blondies Kitchen, which takes their usual milk and cookies offering to the next level.
They'll be serving up the soft serve ice cream - made with Jersey milk and Guernsey cream - combined with a cookie topping (and their
... - Meet the Avolato - Selfridges' Insta gelato hit
So this is rather cute. In an attempt - successful we'd say - to up the ice-cream game as we hit summer, Selfridges have introduced this crazily Insta-friendly dessert in their Food Hall.
Available from the Snowflake gelato counter, the Avolato is made from 60% hass avocado, served in the avocado skin, with an editlbe nut butter stone. It's vegan, dairy and gluten-free and looks freakishly like an actual avocado. Fancy it? It'll set you back
... - Yolkin's going permanent with a Rupert Street ice-cream parlour
If you've never made it down to Sammie Le's ice-cream pop-up you can now try her permanent parlour in Chinatown selling ice-cream, milkshakes and the macaron ice-cream sandwiches that are her signature. - Gelupo teams up with other Soho restaurants to create brand new flavours
When a mint Cornetto just won’t cut it, artisan gelateria Gelupo (from the Bocca Di Lupo team) is always a winner, particularly now they’ve announced a brilliant-sounding collaboration project with seven Soho restaurants.
The upshot of the collaboration will be a set of new, highly creative flavours with each restaurant bringing their own international influence. So, that’ll mean Hawaiian-style chilli and
... - A baklava ice-cream sandwich is coming to London
We know a LOT of people go weak at the knees for a baklava - so this should prove irresistable. In Stoke Newington, The Lacy Nook has just launched a baklava ice-cream sandwich. It's a "Nutty Baklava with flor de latte ice cream (made by Nonnas Gelato), strawberry-mango compote & mint."
So if you're after that next-level baklava - you know where to go.
What: The Lacy
... - Little Moons brings black espresso ice cream to Selfridges
Is that cup of expresso just not doing it for you? Need a more instant hit of caffeine? Then this shot of express in ice cream form may fit the bill.
It's from a new pop-up in the Selfridges Food Hall, Little Moons, who will be selling their mochi ice cream. The Black Espresso Shot also mixes that shot with raw activated charcoal made from coconut shells - so it's ticking all the boxes for the trends of
... - Ben and Jerry's is popping up in Soho for the Summer
Ben and Jerry's are setting up shop in Soho for the summer with their Summer in Soho ice cream shop and they're celebrating the only way they know how - by giving away free ice cream. Because, let's face it, who DOESN'T like free ice cream.
So if you want to grab a scoop (they think they'll be giving away more than 2000) then head down there on Thursday. And you can even try one of their new flavours like Sweetest
... - Iceclairs are coming to Melba at the Savoy. Summer is sorted.
Now, THIS is what you need in hot weather. Forget about normal eclairs, you'll be wanting ICEclairs. These are coming to the patisserie shop Melba that's part of the Savoy hotel. They've been created by the Savoy’s executive pastry chef, Ludwig Hely and are, yes, ice-cream filled eclairs.
You can pick which ice cream you want - including pure dark chocolate, Sicilian pistachio, salted caramel and wild berries.
... - Chin Chin Club brings nitrogen ice cream and cakes to Soho
7/6/17 - updated with launch details
If you've been to the original Chin Chin Lab in Camden, you'll already be very familiar with the made-in-front-of-you-with-nitrogen ice-crem delights that they have to offer. So you'll be VERY happy to know that they're expanding to Soho with a cake and ice-cream
... - Pierre Marcolini launches dip-your-own choc ice bars
At this time of year (or any other, not to think of it) we can NEVER get enough ice cream - and we're liking the look of these new creations from Pierre Marcolini.
They're his Esquimau choc ice bar, and you'll be able to pick from a choice of six ice creams or sorbets - Vanilla, Chocolate, Caramel, White sesame, Mango, Raspberry. But that's not it, of course, as you'll then get to dip your ice cream bar in one of
... - Unico's Italian gelato comes to Notting Hill, and it'll be available as vegan
Vegans rejoice - a new Italian delicatessen called Unico is coming to Notting Hill, and there'll be animal-free versions of everything on the menu. including lots of gelato.
After opening a tremendously popular
... - Ice cream for breakfast on Portobello Road with Four Winters
What: Four Winters
In a nutshell: Liquid nitrogen ice-cream with cereal, granola and mango yoghurt for breakfast
Summing it all up: Those after a sugary way to start their day can now have a frozen sweet treat at Four Winters’ newest venue on Portobello road.
- Four Winters opens a nitro ice cream bar in Soho with mince pie ice cream
How can you make opening an ice cream parlour feel festive when it’s this dreary outside? By creating a mince pie flavour of course. That’s according to Four Winters, who’ve just opened a new liquid nitrogen ice cream shop in Soho.
The ‘Mince Pice Cream’ comes with chunks of with said pies mixed through the ice cream, which has been frozen at -196c thanks to the power of liquid nitrogen.Then
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