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Coney’s Cones

July 25, 2016 Johnny Prime Leave a comment

This post is more about ice cream and slushy awareness than an actual review. Coney’s Cones is a nice little gelato shop on the boardwalk in Coney Island.

We picked up a nice red, white and blue slushy to cool off on a hot-ass American ball-sweat Saturday.

As you can see, my wife and I took some assholey photos of the drink with the Wonder Wheel in the background, because Instagram responds to retarded shit like this.

The drink itself was okay. It was refreshing and not over-the-top sweet, so that’s a plus. I’d go with the gelato next time, or maybe some soft serve. This next photo was from 2007 in the off-season:

CONEY’S CONES
1001 Boardwalk W
Brooklyn, NY 11224

Lower East Side/Chinatown, Nolita/Soho, Other, Restaurant Reviews

Frozen Sweet

March 7, 2016 Johnny Prime Leave a comment

This little ice cream joint serves up some interesting flavors like taro, Thai tea and green tea.

They do this cool thing where they spread out the cream and ingredients on a cold table and then scrape up the ice cream in these cool log curls. Check it out:

We stopped in here with a gaggle of food bloggers and ordered up a few cups to sample among the crew. Here’s a shot of what the Thai tea looks like:

As you can see, they offer panda and monkey cookies as toppings. They also have face emojis, like this one with the taro flavor:

And last but not least, this flavor is vanilla with banana mixed in, and then a nice money-shot of sweetened condensed milk dripping down the panda’s face. Hashtag cummybear. This is the one that was being made in the video above.

The ice cream here is light and not too sweet, which is nice because you can eat a bunch without feeling like you’re fucking yourself over.

FROZEN SWEET
184-186 Mulberry St
New York, NY 10013

Chelsea, Commentary, Other, Press Reviews, Restaurant Reviews

Amorino

August 27, 2015 Johnny Prime Leave a comment

My wife and I were invited to another awesome Tabelog event – this time at a new gelato parlor on 18th & 8th called Amorino.

This place is known for its beautifully crafted cones that look like flowers, and their unique flavors like pistachio and biscotti.

If you see this fellow, be nice! He’s the owner, Federico:

Our task was to rate a bunch of flavors on a scale of 1-5 using this nifty score card:

The flavors came around in little sample cups like this:

And we were permitted to ask for pretty much anything else that we wanted to try. Check out this wild mix:

My favorites were pistachio, yogurt and biscotti.

At the end of the tasting, there was a little blind taste test going on:

I got 3 out of 4 correct, with my one mistake being a tech-fault. I wanted to write raspberry but since it wasn’t passed around as a sample earlier, I just didn’t think it existed. So I wrote strawberry instead. Lesson: Always trust your taste buds! I was right, but I was wrong. Oh well.

Afterward, they passed around some of their awesome gelato-filled macarons: