Hey guys it's Eleana and I'm about to take you on an ice-cream tour of London
this is something I dreamed up with my friends Lucy and Rachel because
unusually for London we've had some pretty good weather, though that doesn't
seem to be the case anymore, so we basically trawled social media to
find Instagrammable and interesting ice creams around London and went on an
adventure We started our ice cream tour at Bird in
Shoreditch and made some amazing decisions that ultimately kind of set us
up to fail. I love sugar and sugar loves me, but I love sugar even more when
I've already had something savory and this was around lunchtime so I was
already starving, hadn't had anything to eat yet so we decided to have more food
there by the way of chicken wings which were honestly some of the best chicken
wings I've ever had in London it was with sticky soy sauce and highly recommended
but not if you're about to then start an ice cream, bad idea. Anyway we were
there for their doughnut Ice Cream Sandwich and it's a glazed doughnut
filled with vanilla ice cream with toffee sauce and chocolate sauce and the
proverbial cherry on top and oh my god it was actually massive you can see from
this footage that it almost looked like the size of my head
It was really good especially the glazed top half, in the end I kind of nixed the
bottom part of the doughnut because it was basically just dough and I just had
the ice cream and the top bit and oh my god. Next we headed to Box Park which is still in
Shoreditch to Dum Dum Donutterie, this was an experience in of itself because the
staff members were like bubbly and funny and talkative and they highly encouraged
us to one shot a slice of donut, I was all for it
We went to Dum Dums to try their Crone ice cream, this is a baked
croissant doughnut sealed in chocolate and shaped into a cone which they
stuffed with chocolate flake pieces and topped with coconut flakes, chocolate
sauce and two scoops of chocolate ice cream. It was pretty tough to eat, with
every stab of the spoon into the ice cream the ice cream balls wanted to just
like topple off and escape. By the time we finished the ice cream the ice cream
had cooled down the doughnut and kind of toughened it up which is a bit of a
shame because I like donuts but just how much flake was in there was just
fantastic I'm a huge fan of flake. We then bused over to Amorino in Covent Garden to try
the Amarino Rose, this one I was particularly excited about because I
thought the picture was the prettiest and it's basically a bunch of sorbets
and gelatos and you choose three flavors and they stick them on a cone but in a
way that it's flower petals shaped and looks like a rose
and it's beautiful and it tastes so good we chose mango raspberry and lemon, the
lemon was everything, it was top-notch, it was fantastic
This was also unfortunately where my camera met its end, I'm filming on a
brand new camera because I dropped that one on the pavement and it broke and it
never recovered so the rest of the footage was filmed with my friend's
camera, you won't be able to tell that though so this is just a little side story
Next we tried to go to Milk Train because they have the ice cream that is
the most photographed ice cream of this summer in London, it's ice cream in a
cone with candy floss wrapped around it and magic and sprinkles and fairy dust
and the queue was ridiculous it was wrapped around the block and like
three people deep so it would have taken forever to actually go there so we nixed
it, noped it out of there and instead decided to go to Chinatown. Bake in
Chinatown is famous for its take on the Japanese taiyaki, is that right? Yes. A Japanese
taiyaki is usually a fish-shaped cake but they've instead fashioned it into an
ice cream cone which they fill with soft serve either matcha green tea flavour
or vanilla ice cream, we went for the matcha one because it's the more
interesting one. Their matcha ice cream is actually a little bit sweeter than
any of the other matcha ice creams I've tried. I usually don't like it because
it's a little too bitter for me and I'm not a big fan of green tea so I
personally like this one a lot better, my friends prefer like true match a
bitter green tea ice cream but still it was really a nice novelty concept and
fun to eat. Oh but here's an insider tip for London, if you get there and there's
a queue and there usually is a queue just go straight inside because everyone
is queueing to get the ice cream once they've paid, that's the really long
queue so there were people who are joining that queue thinking that they needed to
queue outside to pay for it then got inside had to go pay for it and then
came back house to queue again so don't do that. Just head straight inside to the
till. By this point we were pretty much ice creamed out, like, we'd had four ice
creams already and we had eight I think on our original
list but I went for one more, I asked my friends to go for just one more because
it was really an interesting concept. We went to Chin Chin Labs. Chin Chin Labs is
home to nitro ice cream, so this is ice cream that is kept in super super cooled
containers and then when they're scooping it out they vigorously smush it
against the side to smoothen out the texture even more before they roll it
into a ball and serve it to you
I went for the burnt
butter caramel ice cream and it really tasted burnt which I know sounds
unpleasant but just bear with me here. It was so unusual to taste burnt caramel as
ice cream, like, the taste of burnt in ice cream, it was so unusual and it's
kind of bitter and also kind of sweet the bitterness is probably a little bit
edged and I also paired it with really super-sweet honeycomb I think it's like
made in store honeycomb, but that honeycomb is so sweet that if you have
it on the same spoon as a bit of ice cream or if you, like, shot some ice cream
and then shot a bit of honeycomb the sweetness with that burnt just, wah, it was
so so good the texture was amazing and smooth and it was so unusual, I think
it's the one place that I really would genuinely go back so that I could try
something else there. And that my friends was my ice cream tour of London it was
really fun to do it at the time and I also posted lots of pictures as soon as
I'd had the ice creams on my Instagram I tend to do that I put like sneak peeks
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I'm sure it's fantastic and I guess I'll see you again soon, by
the way it's really dark in here now. I filmed this as the sun was setting
It's just like get this done, get this done, get this done