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Market Building, Covent Garden Market, WC2E 8RF Full details & map

Ice-cream shop

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By Time Out Editors Posted: Oct 31 2011

Although the black and electric-pink decor, thumping music and neon signage is more sex shop than ice-cream parlour, the Icecreamists isn't all garish style over substance. The gimmick-laden gelatos are actually pretty good.

Towering extremely high on a cone, our gigantic scoop of 'Sex, Drugs & Choc 'n' Roll' was laced with sea salt, giving the creamy milk chocolate a superb lift. White-chocolate 'Priscilla Queen of Desserts' came with a malty hit of Horlicks and a naughty kick of Baileys.

There's even more razzle-dazzle in the sundaes. The 'Molotoffee Cocktail', for example, brings together dulce de leche, apple juice and banana syrup, and the concoction is then blowtorched at your table.

The spectacle is perhaps better experienced at the roomy Covent Garden Piazza branch, where tables spill out on to the cobbled courtyard; the original Maiden Lane shop is much smaller and a little less brash.

Tags: Something different, Central, Covent Garden, Budget, Gelateria, Ice-cream shop

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Icecreamists details

Address

Icecreamists

Market Building, Covent Garden Market WC2E 8RF

Transport Covent Garden tube

Telephone

020 8616 0721

Icecreamists website

Open noon-10.30pm daily

Credit cards MC, V

Facilities

Tables outdoors ( 16, market ), Babies and children admitted, Takeaway service, Vegan dishes

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