Ice & Vice
Samples: Tea Dance, Shade, Opium Den, Milk Money, Ants on a Farm, Olive Garden
Detention Ice Cream Sandwich – Malted Vanilla Ice Cream coated in Fruity Pebble Dust sandwiched between Mexican Chocolate Brownies
Single Scoop 9AM – Vietnamese Coffee and Doughnut Truffle
Self-applying the term “experimental,” it should seem obvious that Ice & Vice on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is not the traditional Scoop shop, but even for those familiar with the Humphry Slocombes, OddFellows and Cool Hauses of the world the store created by Paul Kim and Ken Lo is aggressively pushing the boundaries of America’s favorite summer treat.
Going out of their way to exclude traditional ideas like Chocolate and Vanilla at first, but since coming to terms with the popularity of those flavors and offering their own twists like Malted Vanilla and Smoked Dark Chocolate “Shade,” Ice & Vice’s late-Spring Menu features a total of eleven flavors plus several toppings and uniquely flavored Cones such as Matcha and Salted Blue Corn with Honey, tastes of the aforementioned Shade as well as the Chocolate-swirled “Milk Money” both unique but familiar while the Celery and Raisin “Ants on a Farm” as well as the Black Garlic and Sweet Corn “Olive Garden” were downright strange, though well-textured and certainly not like anything seen in Ice Cream form before.
Small and trendy but friendly in terms of service, seating available for about a dozen when accounting for tables and counter space, it was with friends ordering cones that the decision was made to invest in one scoop of the bitter-sweet 9AM with the bold flavor of Coffee and Coffee broken up by soft ‘Doughnut Truffles’ while the “Detention” Ice Cream Sandwich smashed a scoop of Malted Vanilla between two dense Brownies before rolling it in Fruity Pebbles for a flavor that oddly tasted a lot like Graeter’s Black Cherry Chocolate Chip.
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