12 Best Affogatos in Los Angeles
Among the many excellent mash-ups in the food world, one of the simplest and most blissful is the affogato, the marriage of two of Italy's finest exports, espresso and gelato. The word comes from the...
View ArticleSweet Rose Creamery Pops Up Downtown at Woo Souvenir Shop
Thankfully, given the holidays and the heat, the trend of pop-up restaurants extends to ice cream shops. It's a natural fit anyway, since ice cream has a long and happy history of being mobile....
View ArticleFree Ice Cream! Cheap Ice Cream! New Ice Cream! 6 Upcoming Ice Cream Events
July is national ice cream month, so OBVIOUSLY you've been out eating ice cream all month because not to do so would be unpatriotic or something. No? You don't give a crap about national blah blah...
View ArticleNew Ice Cream Changes Colors as You Lick It
In a stroke of confectionary genius worthy of Willa Wonka, a Spanish scientist has come up with an ice cream that changes colors (but unfortunately not flavors) as you lick it. It’s already on the...
View ArticleNancy Silverton and Maison Giraud's Noubar Yessayan on the Food Network
The maker of Maison Giraud's famously delicious croissants, pastry chef Noubar Yessayan, will be making his Food Network debut tonight on a new show King of Cones. The special summer 4-episode show...
View ArticleThe Coolhaus Ice Cream Book: How to Make Froot Loops and Milk Ice Cream
Capitalizing on two converging trends — food trucks and Twitter — Natasha Case and Freya Estreller alchemized ice cream into gold. In their new cookbook, Coolhaus Ice Cream Book (Houghton Mifflin...
View Article5 New Twists on Favorite Summer Sweets
Summertime is the perfect time to indulge yourself in sweets and desserts. Popsicles, frozen yogurt and ice cream may be the typical sweets that come to mind when you think of the hot weather, but...
View Article8 Terrific (and Ice Cold) Los Angeles Popsicles
Popsicles are having a moment in the spotlight, just in time for the next heat wave (otherwise known as our permanent summer). More sophisticated than the classic ice pops bought off your local ice...
View ArticleSalt & Straw's Ice Cream Truck Rolls into the Arts District
This weekend will be, as it so often is around this time of year, really, really hot. Ice cream weather, in other words, and all the more reason to go to the Arts District tomorrow, where, between 2...
View ArticleEpicurus 101 Brings the First Solar-Powered Gelato Truck to Pasadena
If you've been wandering around Pasadena in a heat-wave haze the last month or so, you may have spotted a peculiar-looking contraption — imagine James Cameron's idea of a bike stroller — without...
View ArticleSalt & Straw Ice Cream Opens in Larchmont Village
At this rate, we can all skip the trip north to Portland, because all their best food seems to be coming here. Stumptown's already here, Andy Ricker's opening his wildly popular Pok Pok this fall in...
View ArticleThe 10 Sweetest Things You'll Find in L.A. Dessert Kitchens
Every year, we wander through this town, cataloging the best stuff we can find — taco trucks and gelato shops and espresso served in unlikely places — and then publish a whole big list in our annual...
View Article7 Great New Los Angeles Ice Cream Parlors
With our city’s endless summer stretching incrementally into infinity, it can’t be a coincidence that the ice cream business is booming. Why not focus on the positive and use the heat as an excuse to...
View ArticleExperimental Filmmaker Scoops Ice Cream on Weekends
Miko Revereza has had some odd jobs. They include, but are not limited to: construction worker, sandwich maker, delivery driver, live projectionist, gallery sitter, pizza warmer, and of all things,...
View Article10 Places for Weird But Awesome Ice Cream Flavors in L.A.
Is your ice cream too ... vanilla? Lately, we’ve noticed long lines forming on sidewalks around the city, with customers studying complex menus like they’re cramming for the SATs before ordering. These...
View ArticleGuanabana Ice Cream Shop Makes Its Own Exotic Mexican Sorbets (and a Killer...
In an effort to de-stress from the rigors of large-scale ice-cream-making, the Espinoza family sold their Paleteria Azteca in South El Monte three years ago and put all their knowledge de nieves into a...
View ArticleNancy Silverton's Nancy's Fancy Hits Stores Today. Is it Worth the $10.99...
Nancy Silverton's line of gelati and sorbetti goes on sale today at Gelson's markets. The frozen treats are meant to evoke Silverton's famous sweets at Mozza, and at $10.99 cost around the same as a...
View ArticleThe Strand House's New Doughnut Sundaes Come With Decadent Flavor Injections
Stephanie Franz, pastry chef at The Strand House in Manhattan Beach, routinely serves brioche doughnuts crafted with rich Wüthrich butter from Wisconsin. On Sundays, she takes it a step further: She...
View ArticleSalt & Straw's Head Ice Cream Maker on the Tools He Can't Live Without
To say Los Angeles has taken a liking to Salt & Straw, the Portland, Oregon–based ice cream operation that opened a location here last year, would be an understatement. The Larchmont Village shop...
View ArticleCraving Pineapple Dole Whip? Here's Where to Find the Disneyland Treat in L.A.
With another week of 90-degree-plus days settling into the Southland, we've been on a hunt for chilled treats to ease the burn. One of our favorite comes with a strong cult following and a heaping dose...
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