It’s summer time and New Yorker’s are flocking to several new NYC ice cream spots. Here are Flight and Ferry’s picks for the the hottest new desserts that will cool you down this season:
#1 Replublic of Booza’s Elastic Ice Cream
The newest addition to New York’s ice cream scene is Republic of Booza, which opened this month in Williamsburg. The “booza shop” makes creamy, chewy, stretchy ice cream like the kind invented in the Middle East over 500 years ago. The shop’s flavors are as inventive as the concept itself and fall into three categories: classic (i.e. vanilla, butter pecan), global (i.e. horchata de chufa, red miso), and experimental (i.e. salted oreo, coconut matcha).
Republic of Booza
76 N. 4th Street
#2 Dominique Ansel Kitchen’s What-a-Melon Ice Cream
According to Secret NYC, this treat was originally created for the Dominique Ansel Bakery’s Tokyo location in celebration of its second year anniversary. It was brought to NYC in 2017 for a limited time over the July 4 holiday weekend. New Yorkers get lucky this summer and the hollowed out watermelon-slice topped with chocolate “seeds” and filled with soft serve will be a summer staple for the store’s West Village ice cream window.
Dominique Ansel
189 Spring Street
#3 Kellogg’s NYC’s Snap, Mallow, POP Milkshake!
Kellogg’s NYC teamed up with well known and respected Ample Hills Creamery to debut an over-the-top milkshake worthy of any food blogger’s insta. This shake, topped with whipped cream, sprinkles, candles and more serves 4, so bring your buddies, especially that one with the selfie stick.
Kellogg’s NYC
31 East 17th
#4 Sherry B Dessert Studio’s Ice Cream Sandwiches
Sherry Blockinger (Sherry B) spent six years in Chappaqua, NY perfecting her ice cream sandwiches before opening up her own shop in the Meatpacking district in March 2018 (shortly after Oprah’s O Magazine released Sherry B’s ice cream as one of its favorite summer things.) The 22-seat cafe’s offers its well known ice cream sandwiches (try the purple velvet or birthday cake), as well as mouth watering stuffed brownies, cookies and “tipsy marshmallows.”
Sherry B Dessert Studio
643 Hudson Street
#5 Lucky Pickle Dumpling Co.’s Pickle Ice Cream
Upper West Side’s Lucky Pickle Dumpling Co. specializes in dumplings and noodles, but leveraged the shop’s name for the soft serve. Yelpers and food lovers have remarked that the overall taste of the soft serve is more cucumber-y than pickle-y. Regardless of main ingredient, the pickle ice cream is a refreshingly unique take on the average scoop.
Lucky Pickle Dumpling Co.
513 Amsterdam Ave
#6 OddFellows Ice Cream Co. Coffee & Cream
OddFellows is not a newcomer to the NYC ice cream scene, but the company just debuted their newest concept: Coffee & Cream by Oddfellows, a hybrid ice cream shop and cafe. This new Nolita shop on the corner of Mott and Houston features rotating flavors of their popular ice cream, quality coffee and combinations of both (think coldbrew milkshake).
Coffee & Cream by Oddfellows
55 E. Houston
#7 The Stackery’s Chimney Cakes
Up and coming artisan food shop The Stackery has brought its lineup of handmade sweet & savory chimney cakes to the UrbanSpace pop up in the Garment District. Chimney cakes like “the Oreo Overload” or “the Cheesecake Quake” are popping up all over instagram. Try it between June 4-July 13 while the space is open.
Urbanspace Garment District
Broadway, from 40th & 41st Street
#8 Bar Pa Tea’s Bubble Tea Soft Serve
New Yorkers are flocking to Nolita’s Bar Pa Tea for its black tea or oolong flavored soft serve topped with “bubbles” (tapioca pearls). You can also upgrade a traditional tea latte with a scoop of their soft serve to make a float. Bar Pa Tea prides itself on its “healthful approach” to its drink recipes which are free of additives and made with pure cane sugar instead of corn syrup.
#9 16 Handles’ Galaxy Cone
According to 16 Handles, the Galaxy Cone “is a deliciously sweet combination of Cotton Candy and Sweet Taro Pie frozen yogurt, served in a cotton candy cloud cone with rock candy crystals, stars, and galaxy-themed hues of black, pink, blue, and purple.” If cotton candy isn’t your thing, the outpost is also offering a Frozen Galaxy Tea Lemonade and a Poppin’ Galaxy Tart. The Galaxy cone is available for limited time only in New York City at their East Village location.
16 Handles East Village
153 2nd Avenue
#10 Dulcinea’s Churro Ice Cream Sandwich
Dulcinea may not be a new opening, but their ice cream sandwiches are still under the radar enough (and their story still unfolding) to give them some love. The Brooklyn shop serves up homemade, fried-to-order, cookie-shaped churros stuffed with your choice of creamy ice cream. You can buy churro sandwiches like the popular salted caramel ice cream topped with Oreo crumbs year-round at DeKalb Market in Brooklyn. In warm weather months, Dulcinea also joins dozens of other vendors at Smorgasburg, the largest weekly open-air food market in America.
DeKalb Market Hall
445 Albee Square W, Brooklyn, NY
Williamsburg’s East River Park (Kent Ave and North 7th Street) (Saturdays)
Prospect Park’s Breeze Hill (Sundays)
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