We All Scream For Ice Cream Sandwiches, Tonga Room Fun & More
Waterbar’s take on the ice cream sandwich. (Photo courtesy of the restaurant.)
Restaurants Serving Up Ice Cream Sandwiches
With summer in high gear, pastry chefs are channeling their inner child to turn out kid-pleasing ice cream sandwiches.
Lucky for us, they don’t mind if the grown-ups indulge, either.
At Waterbar in San Francisco, fudge cookies sandwich sweet cream ice cream, then get rolled in crunchy, buttery bits of chocolate shortbread ($9).
At the Americano at the Hotel Vitale in San Francisco, they’re crafting the exotic candy cap mushroom ice cream sandwich ($8). If you’ve never had one, you’re missing out. The tiny mushrooms, foraged by Executive Chef Kory Stewart, impart a heavenly maple syrup flavor to the ice cream base. This is one mushroom made for desserts.
And at Prospect in San Francisco, fresh cherries make a star turn in ice cream stuffed inside two chocolate cookies, then all rolled in candied almonds (2 pieces for $4.50).
Prospect’s cherry-chocolate ice cream sandwich. (Photo courtesy of the restaurant.)
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