I may have mentioned before that I have a bit of a sweet tooth, so when I was at Selfridges recently for my Pierre Koffman visit I was intrigued to see the Icecreamists 'God Save the Cream' installation.
The Icecreamists claim to be 'Liberating the world one lick at a time' and 'Agents of Cool' and the pop up cafe certainly has a wow factor. Dark walls with bright neon pink writing on the walls, over the top furniture and the Queen driving an ice cream van!
Such a cool (no pun intended) place needs a product to match and I took Grace the week after to see if the ice cream was as good as the place looks.
The menu, also in bright pink, has 16 flavours to choose from and a number of specials. These range from an ice cream hot chocolate to a decadent selection of pink champagne ice lollies. These come in at an eye watering £39.99!
On my first visit I stuck to the simple tub of up to three flavours for £4.99.
Narrowing my choice to three was tough, but with the servers allowing you a taste of them in advance I finally settled on chocolate, dulche de leche and a berry sorbet. G went for liquorice, rose water and dulche de leche.
The quality of all them was superb: rich, creamy, full of flavour and with a velvety smooth texture. We probably didn't choose the best combination as we both thought the dulche de leche was slightly over powered by the other two.
The portion didn't look the biggest, but due to the quality of the ice cream it was surprisingly filling - there were no ice crystals and very little air, which you tend to find in bad ice cream.
As soon as we finished we decided we must return before it closes on the 1st November.
This I duly did with my parents, who've been down visiting from the North East. I persuaded my mum to share one of the ice cream cocktails and went for 'The Chocoholic'. At £16.99 it was by far the most expensive ice cream i've ever had, but boy it was good.
The picture doesn't really do it justice, as the top hat it came in was about six inches deep and it was full of dark and white chocolate ice cream, fruit, whipped cream and hazelnuts. On the side came a glass of warm dark chocolate sauce that just added to the indulgence.
I wish i'd taken a pic of my mum's face as she tucked into it, as I don't think i've ever seen her enjoy something so much. It took about 20 minutes to get through it, but every spoonful was an indulgent delight.
If you want to wow someone or have a taste for ice cream then clear your diary and get down there before it closes on the 1st November.