Where ice cream meets inspiration
First I want to apologize for the photo of Elly’s Ice Cream, it really doesn’t do them any justice, but from the jump obtaining this ice cream didn’t really go as planned which I’ll address when I do my review of Bontà Natural Artisan Gelato.
So we were unable to eat at Bontà due to them being “closed” at the time, so we decided to go to Ben & Jerry’s… Wait what? Ben and Jerry’s are all over the world? ok cool I guess we’ll go to Baskin and…. wait? They’re not local either? Ok let me find a local place to get some ice cream. Elly’s, ever heard of them? Me neither. let’s go!
Elly’s ended up being on the way West Side located at The Grove which is a “Food Hall” per their website, but really reminds me of a cafeteria style building or a mall food court with penalty of options to eat and drink and sit and enjoy.
Now something you need to know about me, when I dine out, there is a very high probability that they are either a. not going to have an ingredient or dish that we specifically came there to eat, or b. they are going to mess up our dish, or give us something completely different. I think I’m going to come up with a tag for this. How about NWIW NOT WHAT I WANTED. This way, we can really keep track of how absurdly often this happens. I better go back and update some previous posts.
So as it begins, we wanted to try a Gone Glamping, but alas they didn’t have any Marshmallow Crèam which according to our scoopologist “really makes the dish”, so we moved on.
We got a 1 scoop ($3) and a 2 Scoop Waffle Cone ($7.25) of Vanilla and Strawberry and Cream. To be honest I don’t remember what the 1 scoop was as it’s been a few weeks since we’ve been. Sadly to say, it was ice cream, although it was locally sourced and natural ingredients, it really wasn’t that impressive. Maybe if we had stayed and enjoyed it inside, or weren’t already put off from not getting our first choice, but I can attest that there will be higher ice cream on the Great 8 List.
So to recap, if you’re in the area, and want ice cream, it’s there, if you have means to go elsewhere, I’d recommend you check the Great 8 List.
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