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| - An ice cream spot is a great addition to Roosevelt Row. I finally got to try this on a hot July night (well perhaps hot goes without saying). I have to say with frozen items being in there, that little house is no longer as stuffy. I always felt so bad for the people cooking for Nachobot and Rezbot when you combined the heat from outside and that generated by the stove. Also, it looks like the owners expanded the back somewhat or maybe because the indoor seating is gone now.
Anyway, back to Melt. I only came because I heard they had some really out of the ordinary flavors. I don't live in the neighborhood so I wasn't planning on coming just for regular stuff like chocolate chip or vanilla. When I heard they had a watermelon flavor, my taste buds wanted to accept the challenge. Luckily they're was no line on a Sunday night at 8 so I was free to try all the more intriguing flavors. The girl working behind the counter could not have been nicer. She kept encouraging me to sample and even pushed flavors she liked.
After much thought and sampling (yum!), I settled on carrot cake. Seems like encapsulating cafeteria desserts as ice cream flavors is a trend. I've had apple pie flavored ice cream but never carrot cake. What I really appreciated about it was that on top of the ice cream, there were walnuts and I think even grated carrots in it. And it was a great texture. No crunch icicles. I got a regular scoop in a waffle cone. I went with the waffle cones because they are locally made too. The one issue with the waffle cone: At some point, ice cream may start to drip. There will inevitably be a hole in the pointed end of the cone. I'm glad I got a spoon with my cone. At one point, I held the cone horizontally and just ate out of it. So, next time I may just do a cup or the more stout, lighter colored cones like you get at the store. The regular size scoop, in my eyes, was A LOT. My friend got a mini scoop in the waffle cone and I may go that route next time.
I will definitely go back. I need to work my way thru the list of flavors I want to try, starting with the watermelon-cilantro sorbet, which tasted very refreshing in the sample I had. They also have cucumber sorbet and the cinnamon ice cream I tried was pretty awesome.
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