Restaurants

Scoop

Long lunchtime queues are a testament to the fact that even the dairy-free health ices (intriguingly made from rice flour) at this Italian artisan’s shop are utterly...

Covent Garden: 40 Shorts Gardens, WC2H 9AB

Fortnum and Mason's Parlour

The Parlour’s warm, silky Amedei chocolate sauce is superior to the chocolate ice-cream sold here, so our best recommendation is to order an ice-cream flight –...

Piccadilly: Fortnum & Mason, 181 Piccadilly, W1J 9FA

Freggo

Ice cream, South American style

Piccadilly: 27-29 Swallow Street, W1B 4QR

Gelateria Danieli

This excellent Richmond outfit has been quietly expanding, with kiosks in Bentall’s of Kingston, Centre Court Shopping Centre in Wimbledon, a stall by John Lewis on...

Richmond: 16 Brewers Lane, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1HH

Morelli's

Harrods ice cream parlour

Knightsbridge: Harrods, ground floor, 87-135 Brompton Rd, SW3 1DB

Gelateria Danieli

Battersea: 47 Queenstown Road, SW8 3RY

Gelateria Danieli

Kingston: Bentall Centre, Wood Street, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT1 1TX

Gelato Mio

A sleek shop with swivel chairs that would look at home in a classy hotel bar. Among the dozen-or-so sorbets are flavours such as pear and papaya. We liked the classic...

Holland Park: 138 Holland Park Avenue, W11 4UE

Marine Ices

It’s no surprise to find a line of people queueing outside this retro ice-cream parlour for a tub of fresh fruit sorbet (lemon, papaya) or cone of own-made ice-cream...

Chalk Farm: 8 Haverstock Hill, NW3 2BL