Tomorrow is for Broccoli

Ice cream cart sign at Hobbledown Farm Park.

Buy Ice With Your Eyes

Guest Spot

Hotel consultant guru Melvin Gold sends in this great display of ice lollies at the Gelataria Lariana in Como.

Ice Cream Plus

An obvious combo where you have an espresso machine, ice cream, strawberries and the current heat.  Bravo to Benugo for offering Affogato (espresso coffee with ice cream) from their mobile unit in the forecourt of the British Museum.

Ice Cream Cup Cakes

Greggs' ice cream cup cakes

Story on a Serviette

Telling a story is more and more what cafes and restaurants need to do to explain why they are different and worth visiting.  Zizzi's story about their gelato supplier is well told and well communicated via their serviettes.

Bread on a Bike

Interesting cake and bread display at the new Recipease (from the Jamie Oliver stable) in Notting Hill. The trike is made by Pashley, England's longest established bicycle manufacturer.

Upturned zinc bath lampshade plus self-serve ice cream

Clyde Coast Extravaganza

 Nardini's in Glasgow's Byres Road is well known for their ice cream and pastries.

Their speciality is the massive Clyde Coast Extravaganza ice cream sundae featuring 12 scoops of ice-cream and 16 toppings.

Dog Day

Buy an ice cream cone and get a free dish of ice cream for your dog.  Only in America?! 

Everyone eats Ice Cream

Ben & Jerry retain their wacky humour with the disabled parking sign at their Vermont ice cream factory.

Cones, Charts & Hedgehogs

Guest Spot

My brother Simon reports on a very switched-on ice cream operation, Harbour Ice,  in Padstow who clearly are aware of how to cater for special interest groups with their gluten-free cones and Allergy Chart.

The Hedgehog special is a fun variation on the ubiquitous '99' and Magnums

God Save The Cream

One of the more extraordinary 'boutique' ice cream shops, located in Covent Garden, is a testament to how marketing can get you noticed.  Baby GooGoo breast milk vice cream alongside the more restrained Jubilee Strawberry.  Retailers are going jubilee crazy - do you have a promotion that catches the eye?

Would you have guessed this is an absinthe 'drip' for their Sex Pistols dessert.

Scoop

Wall displays get ever more innovative - Scoop in Soho - and their gelato is pretty good too

See also

http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/12/demanding-hanging.html

http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/12/hanging-hams.html

http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/11/tarnished-tableau.html

http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/09/doddington-hall-farm-shop-cafe-more.html

Purple Party Parlour

Bashall Barn is a Food Visitor Centre / Farmshop / Cafe / Restaurant in the middle of nowhere (near Clitheroe in Lancashire) and has this party room for budding chefs

They make their own ice cream with fun toppings

They make beer, do weddings and hold themed evening events too!

Science Museum Shakes

Shake Ice Cream Bar

Good display by caterer Benugo

Great child-friendly toppings - maltesers, jaffa cakes, blueberries, peanut butter ....

Ice Cream Station

Squire's Garden Centre at Badshot Lea has a new 350-seat cafe with an idea borrowed from Pizza Hut - the kids love it.