Setting
Outside Seating. |
Interior. |
Ice Cream
Buttermint Crunch. $7.29. |
"Thin-mint custard, fudge drizzle, grasshopper cookie."
Like all cones at Mister Dips, this curated cone not only has a special flavor of soft serve (mint), it also has a special dip (white chocolate, I think possibly mint flavored too), and THEN a drizzle (fudge), and crumble coating (bits of chocolate mint cookie) ... oh, and whipped cream all around the base (not all the cones have that). It looked pretty amazing, and I was eager to dive in (and knew I had to, fast, due to melting nature), taking just a moment to snap the photo.
It proved as difficult to eat on the hot day as I had sorta feared, and I quickly turned into an amusing sticky mess. I ate frantically, and tried to control it, but I was no match for 90* weather. Melting soft serve, inside dip, in hot weather, is just never going to go well ... you simply cannot lick it fast enough to control it. My companion fared better, as her cone didn't have the whipped cream ring around the base, so the base was able to serve as a catcher for some of her drips.
Anyway, stressful eating logistics aside, how was it?
Sadly, it looked better than it was. The mint soft serve was very mildly flavored, not nearly as minty as I wanted (not even in the same league as my favorite mint soft serve, from King Kone). But, moreover, it wasn't really very creamy. It wasn't icy exactly, but, really not a rich, creamy style. It seemed more like froyo than ice cream, just lacking that creamy mouthfeel. So the base ice cream itself, definitely left something to be desired.
The white chocolate dip/shell was sweet and fine, but I still don't know if it was actually mint flavored (or just light green), as it just tasted like white chocolate, e.g. sweet, to me. The dip solidified well, and didn't all break off as sometimes happens, and wasn't too waxy, but, again, the flavor was very muted. It also seemed like a missed opportunity not to go more in the Thin Mint / Andes Mint / Peppermint Patty direction with a dark chocolate dip. If I were to get this again, I'd ask for the chocolate dip instead.
The chocolate elements that were there were the chocolate fudge drizzle and grasshopper cookie bits. These were both gone in the first moments of consumption. The chocolate drizzle really seemed more like sauce than fudge, and, yeah, was gone after two bites. I didn't even notice nor taste the few crumbs of cookie. The whipped cream around the base was a nice touch, I can't say I've ever had whipped cream on a cone before, but I always have it with my ice cream when it is in a dish, so, this was novel and enjoyable.
So, overall, it looked great, but, flavors too muted, ice cream not creamy, and fairly stressful to eat. Oh, and the cone itself, by the time I got there, was a soggy disaster, as the melted ice cream had entirely soaked it. At least it was inside the cone catcher, otherwise it would have broken apart way too early in the eating experience.
My companion had the Berry Gibbs, with all entirely different components, and she said hers too wasn't particularly flavorful, and that the ice cream wasn't creamy, so, it wasn't just my poor choice of cone.
I likely would not return here, as NY has too much incredible other soft serve. **+.
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