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Only in New York could two neighborhood icons look at a slice of pizza and a swirl of ice cream and think, What if we smashed them together?
For one week only, Prince Street Pizza—home of the thick, square Sicilian slice with those iconic cupped pepperonis—is teaming up with dessert powerhouse Milk Bar on a sundae that is either a culinary crime or the city’s next great obsession.
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Meet the Prince Street Pizza Pepperoni & Hot Honey Sundae, available now through September 15 at Milk Bar’s Nolita shop (at 246 Mott St). The base is Milk Bar’s cult-favorite Cereal Milk soft serve, that just-sweet-enough swirl inspired by the bottom of your breakfast bowl. Then things get meaty. The soft serve is crowned with chopped Prince Street pepperoni and finished with a drizzle of hot honey, creating a salty-sweet-spicy trifecta that basically screams “New York.”
Inventive ice cream isn’t exactly new. Van Leeuwen has dabbled in Kraft Mac & Cheese scoops, and breast milk-flavored ice cream recently made waves. But this collab has street cred. Both brands are Nolita institutions: Prince Street Pizza for its line-around-the-block slices, Milk Bar for Christina Tosi’s sugar-fueled empire that gave us Compost Cookies and Birthday Cake truffles. That they’ve finally joined forces feels less like a gimmick and more like an inevitability.
The sundae is also perfectly timed. Early fall in New York is prime walking weather, the kind of days when you can justify waiting in line just for the sake of novelty. And novelty is exactly what this delivers. It’s the kind of mashup you’ll want to post on Instagram before you take a bite and decide, actually, hot honey on pepperoni in a pool of ice cream is...kind of genius.
At $10, it’s not a cheap thrill—but compared to your average $25 martini, it’s a steal. Just don’t dawdle: Once September 15 hits, the sundae melts into memory.