Cupcake Monday! Our Local 'Old Fashioned' Ice Cream Parlour

Every neighbourhood benefits from an ice cream shop, especially when it brings a bit of retro - and French! - charm like our Beaches and Cream Ice Cream Parlour.  Overlooking the seafront, its tiny space spills over with sweet-toothed locals on sunny days. The ice cream is made here in the North East by the  family-owned Beckleberry's, which my daughter thinks is a flavour of ice cream because it's on all of the flavour markers. Hmm...how about it? Why not a house flavour called Beckleberry? I'm tasting blackberry with some pistachio bits for some reason (they do a wonderfully creamy pistachio!). And they do a fantastic sorbet- their Blackcurrant & Kirsch sorbet was awarded the Fortnum & Mason's Supreme Champion in 2008. (That's the ultimate accolade in the fine food industry.) I cannot wait to try the new Mascarpone.

Next door is the Beaches and Cream cafe that serves afternoon tea and some food. And of course ice cream desserts. I can't thank them enough for painting their exterior woodwork - which spans the ice cream shop and the cafe that stands on the corner - that gorgeous dusty duck egg colour.

 

 

Photos © The Swelle Life

Comments

[Jem]

What a beautiful place to linger over something sweet - both inside and out the design is absolutely lovely and it is such a shame that there aren't ice cream parlours like that one all over the place!

Jem xXx

[Lauren]

I want to go there!

[Sophie]

Now I want icecream and a Mr Whippy wont suffice!