Melt
Samples – Drunk’n Nut, Arizona Sunrise, Wine n’ Cheese
Single Churro
Single White Chocolate Raazz with Sprinkles
Triple – Cap’n Crunch, Drunk’n Nut, Twisted Delight
No doubt playing the Instagram-era plating game by way of Chinese take-out containers complete with Cookie, Central City’s Melt takes Phoenicians on a flavor-trip by way of housemade Ice Cream with a texture somewhere between hand-dipped and soft serve presented by clerks who try entirely too hard to be funny.
Located in a converted former-home on 5th Street, this odd style of makeshift dining space familiar to locals but a bit disconcerting to visitors given signage posted along a low fence, those entering Melt are immediately bombarded by high decibels of Punk and bad puns paired to samples, a limit of three almost a point of pride even when the shop was otherwise uncrowded.
Trying to make conversation about the product, flavors like “Arizona Sunrise” that are not especially obvious described with a snarky response before finally yielding “like a Creamsicle” it was with small tastes of savory Wine n’ Cheese plus a riff on Humphry Slocombe’s “Secret Breakfast” that decisions were made, though not before the young man chastised one in the party for adding Sprinkles that “taste like chalk.”
Getting past the service, or lack thereof, including an unwillingness to sell a friend less than a full pound of Chamoy Gummy Bears, further tastes of Melt confirmed a semi-soft texture quite unlike most modern-day Artisans while flavors trended sweet yet not “sugary,” the Churro essentially just Vanilla with a bit of Cinnamon while White Chocolate Razz was even milder, and thus quite different from the yeasty Cereal Milk flavored Cap’n Crunch or “Twisted Delight” of Strawberries and Balsamic.
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