East Village Ice Cream
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East Village Ice Cream
Ice Cream Parlor Review by Laura Brose c2007
This little ice cream shop boasts mosaic-top tables and an ambiance of class and culture on the interior at odds with the garish awning sign on the exterior.
Three kinds of cones, large waffle, standard issue waffle, and flat-bottomed sugar cones are available. When I visited, in March of 2007, I saw a neat and clean prep area behind the counter and a Lucite tower of shelves for the cones. The smaller cones each come with a paper jacket, in this case printed with a patriotic design incorporating a US flag motif in full color. (I wonder of you have to salute it when you throw it in the wastebasket?) The various toppings, mostly dried fruits, are kept in big glass jars in a precise line on a countertop.
They offer much less selection than Baskin Robbins or Ben & Jerry’s, and seemingly much less creativity as far as flavors go. The flavor choices currently available are eminently conventional. They are chocolate, vanilla, vanilla chip, coffee, butter pecan, strawberry, and pistachio. The latter is becoming slightly exotic because it is becoming harder to find than it has been in the past. East Village Ice Cream’s pistachio ice cream is slightly different than the pistachio ice creams I’ve seen elsewhere. There are thin streaks of some dark green substance and tiny bits of something orange and something reddish. One or both of the latter might be the rose hips the counterman said they put in their pistachio. He offered me tastes of some of the other flavors they offer, and I am glad I took them, because the coffee ice cream would only be appealing to seasoned coffee drinkers: it is less light and sweet than many of the coffee ice creams currently available and has a robustness and a smokiness that surprised me.
There is one disappointment, though. The steps at the entrance make this destination wheelchair-unfriendly.
Submitted: 03/09/07 (Edited 06/01/07)
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East Village Ice Cream
Ice Cream Parlor Review by Laura Brose c2007
This little ice cream shop boasts mosaic-top tables and an ambiance of class and culture on the interior at odds with the garish awning sign on the exterior.
Three kinds of cones, large waffle, standard issue waffle, and flat-bottomed sugar cones are available. When I visited, in March of 2007, I saw a neat and clean prep area behind the counter and a Lucite tower of shelves for the cones. The smaller cones each come with a paper jacket, in this case printed with a patriotic design incorporating a US flag motif in full color. (I wonder of you have to salute it when you throw it in the wastebasket?) The various toppings, mostly dried fruits, are kept in big glass jars in a precise line on a countertop.
They offer much less selection than Baskin Robbins or Ben & Jerry’s, and seemingly much less creativity as far as flavors go. The flavor choices currently available are eminently conventional. They are chocolate, vanilla, vanilla chip, coffee, butter pecan, strawberry, and pistachio. The latter is becoming slightly exotic because it is becoming harder to find than it has been in the past. East Village Ice Cream’s pistachio ice cream is slightly different than the pistachio ice creams I’ve seen elsewhere. There are thin streaks of some dark green substance and tiny bits of something orange and something reddish. One or both of the latter might be the rose hips the counterman said they put in their pistachio. He offered me tastes of some of the other flavors they offer, and I am glad I took them, because the coffee ice cream would only be appealing to seasoned coffee drinkers: it is less light and sweet than many of the coffee ice creams currently available and has a robustness and a smokiness that surprised me.
There is one disappointment, though. The steps at the entrance make this destination wheelchair-unfriendly.
Submitted: 03/09/07 (Edited 06/01/07)
Hits: 82 to site, 0 from site. Averaging 0 out and 0 in per day.
In the most recent 30 day period, there've been 2 to the site and 0 from the site.
Reviews: 0 comments
Trader Rating: 0
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