Cone Gourmet Ice Cream
Samples: Orange Sherbet, Billy Goat, Butter Pecan, Not Your Mama’s Brownie Batter
Netflix n’ Chill and Buzzin Bee on a Salted Pretzel Cone
Fancied for its boozy Scoops and housemade Cones offered in a variety of flavors it was at Cone Gourmet Ice Cream that Independence Day concluded, Chicago’s heat and humidity generating a large crowd just past 7pm and staff advising guests against traveling any distance with their Ice Cream as melting proved an issue even inside the shop.
Located in the West Loop since 2013, an attempted visit around one year in foiled by locked doors to this day unexplained, it was while queued that cases were perused, tasting spoons mere licks that made it difficult to detect subtlety though the Orange Sherbet seemed quite nice and refreshing.
Offering no shortage of novelty whether one opts for Cone, Cup, Sundae or Shake, vibrant colors making “artisan” perhaps appropriate but “all-natural” unsuitable it was once choices were made that $7 was exchanged for two flavors in a salty Pretzel Shell, Netflix & Chill actually surprisingly alluring thanks to light salinity juxtaposed against Chocolate Candy while the “Buzzin Bee” that seemed pleasant based on a taste was texturally disastrous as a result of Cereal that reminisced of stale Cheetos though the Ice Cream itself was tasty.
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