This summer, buzzy limited-edition drops aren’t just coming in the form of sneakers. and food truck (check schedule for location) 21, Limited Edition Tamara Beckwith/NY Post People love it or hate it, but no one can deny its decadent appeal, Sabin says: “It’s lobster in ice cream! It’s like Champagne!” Scoops start at $5. Lobster meat is sauteed in butter and “frozen into a really nice vanilla bean ice cream, with a sweet buttery release when you get into the lobster,” Tselikis says. The founders of Kips Bay restaurant Cousins Maine Lobster serve the surprisingly compatible union of lobster and ice cream, a hidden gem of Maine cuisine, they say. Multiple locations 21, Don’t be Shellfish Stefano GiovanniniĬousins Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac see your sprinkles and raise you generous chunks of lobster. $7.95 for a cone, available until the end of the summer. “It’ll make you want to watch movies,” Lee says. It’s served with a caramel drizzle and popcorn pieces. Its soft serve uses a milk base with popcorn extract for that unmistakable buttery flavor. Marks, you’re in a city that’s known for movies,” says managing partner, Mark Lee. Iron Chef Ian Kittichai found inspiration close to home for the Caramel Popcorn soft serve at his East Village, Midtown and Flushing table-service dessert bars, Spot. 158 Irving Ave., Bushwick Popped to Perfection Tamara Beckwith/NY Post “My girlfriend scoops the cups and licks her fingers and she has no problem telling everyone how good it is.” Scoops start at $2.50 for dogs and $4.25 for people. And although the dessert shop has some human options, including its Nitro Cookie Cold Brew and Bread and Roses (made with rose water and shortbread), its pooch offering is frankly good enough for both species, says owner Eric Kyriakopoulos. Bushwick shop Ollie’s Ice Cream and Stuff serves up the pup-friendly treat Peanut Butter Pumpkin Butt, made with frozen pumpkin, peanut butter, banana and sweet potato. Multiple locations 64, Pup’s Paradise Tamara Beckwith/NY Postĭon’t leave Fido at home for this one. Becherano insists it’s sure to become a sweet staple here: “It can be on equal footing with any dessert.” Kakigori starts at $5. Popular flavors include Matcha Mountain and Strawberries and Cream.

The ice mounds get drizzled with syrup, flavored whipped cream and puffed rice. But New York didn’t have a spot until he and Theo Friedman brought their take on the dessert to the Lower East Side’s Canal Street Market. Kakigoōri, an “incredibly, incredibly delicate and fluffy” shaved-ice treat, is ubiquitous in Japan, says Bonsai Kakigori co-owner Gaston Becherano.

21, Snow in July Tamara Beckwith/NY Post “It has a spicy finish in the back of the palate.” Scoops start at $3.50 and are available until the end of summer. For Roasted Corn Jalapeño, co-owner Nick Larsen revisited his childhood harvesting corn in Iowa: “It’s that first sweet corn of the season,” which pairs excellently with zippy jalapeño, he says. Take the Tuma Buna - an Ethiopian coffee ice cream with honey, turmeric and ginger candy, named after neighbor Tuma Basa, whose fiancée has Ethiopian roots. 64, /sweetglorianyc Globe-Trotter Stefano GiovanniniĪt Harlem’s Sugar Hill Creamery, the menu is a “portrait of the neighborhood through ice cream,” says co-owner Petrushka Bazin Larsen. But if you’d rather wear your gold than eat it, Sweet Gloria also offers edible flowers as toppings. “We consider every single ice cream as an art piece, that’s why we do the gold flake,” Feng says. The contrasting flavors make a “perfect combination,” says partner Charles Feng - and of course, satisfy a hunger for “likes,” too. This month, Soho Chinese dessert bar Sweet Gloria sprinkles its signature gold flake topping on a sea-salt-mascarpone and lychee-rose soft-serve swirl. Scoops start at $5.50 and floats start at $12 and are available until Labor Day. It features “tons and tons of chunks” of babka prepared by his mentor, prominent Orthodox Jewish baker Zak the Baker. Stop by for a scoop of Babka n Cream, which founder Daniel Levine describes as a transcendent experience. Blessed Babka Tamara Beckwith/NY Postīoozy ice cream floats meet traditional Jewish treats at the Dasher and Crank summer pop-up outside the Gansevoort Meatpacking Hotel. Vacation in a cone? We’ll take a scoop - or three. To capture their allure, we photographed them tiki-style. These whimsical treats range from boozy delights to nostalgic throwbacks - there’s even an option for your pup. New York City ice cream shops are dishing up delicious getaways from everyday flavors.

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