Alcoholic ice cream? Cheesecake ice cream? You probably don't associate London with ice cream but every High street and shopping mall will offer you two or three or more outlets which specialise in ice cream or have an ice cream selection on the side. The same goes for Singapore. Maybe the same applies worldwide.
Two great countries have influenced this. The Italians brought ice cream to London. The Americans offered us not three but severn or 30 or 31 flavours, a new one for every day of the week. Finally in London such luminaries of innovation, top chefs and restaurants, started introducing savoury and novelty ice creams.
A few for you to look at or try:
Top of the range of surprises:
Dinner restaurant in what used to be the Mandarin Oriental opposite Harrods. The dessert ice cream is made in front of you on a trolley. They've been doing this for over a year but if you want to sample it please check with them before going and see the prices for lunches and any special offers because it's very expenses.
Petrus - again top of the range of restaurants so look for special offers for lunches. The surprise is the solid ice cream chocolate spare or half sphere which cracks open and inside is the melting ice cream.
Check ice creams in your area in your local high street or mall. Here are some I found recently.
Intu shopping mall, Watford.
These two far left are alcoholic. I haven't tried them yet. Next time.
Two great countries have influenced this. The Italians brought ice cream to London. The Americans offered us not three but severn or 30 or 31 flavours, a new one for every day of the week. Finally in London such luminaries of innovation, top chefs and restaurants, started introducing savoury and novelty ice creams.
A few for you to look at or try:
Top of the range of surprises:
Dinner restaurant in what used to be the Mandarin Oriental opposite Harrods. The dessert ice cream is made in front of you on a trolley. They've been doing this for over a year but if you want to sample it please check with them before going and see the prices for lunches and any special offers because it's very expenses.
Petrus - again top of the range of restaurants so look for special offers for lunches. The surprise is the solid ice cream chocolate spare or half sphere which cracks open and inside is the melting ice cream.
Check ice creams in your area in your local high street or mall. Here are some I found recently.
Intu shopping mall, Watford.
You get a teeny lick on a miniature flat spoon. Enough to see if you like it. I tried two. The pistachio was disappointing, not much flavour or after taste. My preference was the cheesecake and fruit flavour.
These two far left are alcoholic. I haven't tried them yet. Next time.
By the way, secure your bags if you are buying from a stall. Whilst you are talking to a member of staff somebody may come up behind you to look at the ice creams and jostle you. You open your purse or pocket to get out your money, have ice cream in one hand, an open pocket or purse. You walk a few yards and realise your pocket is still open.
Fortunately everything is still there, passport, money, etc, and the family of three, mother on one side, children jumping about the other side, were a perfectly honest family just looking at ice cream. But what if they hadn't been? Plan to keep your money for a purchase separately, or already in your hand. The same goes in a queue in a busy shop at sale time. (In Britain say queue. In America say line up.)
Shake away have a kind of ice cream drink. They came out at lunch time one day offering tastings. Crunch bits. Very good.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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