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| - Sweet Pea and I decided on one recent night to rail down to Churn and see what all of the fuss was about. We'd heard a lot about it and its restaurant counterpart, Windsor. Bottom line, it was good ice cream. It was not swoon-worthy. I will not be getting in my car making a mad late night ice cream run just to get Churn ice cream. But, although I am definitely an ice cream person, I couldn't really imagine myself doing that for any particular place's ice cream.
We had no crystallization issues like other reviewers mentioned- the texture was good, heavy, creamy. I tried the Madagascar vanilla, which was rich and vanilla-y as you'd expect, but I ended up ordering the coconut, in a cup, with the salted caramel topping. Both the ice cream and the topping were good. The one thing I will say about the salted caramel (and I REALLY like salted caramel) was that it was overpowering in terms of flavor. Next time I'd probably just get it with the vanilla. Or maybe chocolate if I felt frisky. And I really want to try that pretzel cone thing they have there, man that looked awesome. Sweet Pea tried the bubble gum and ended up with the blackberry with salted caramel (yeah..."interesting" choice there Sweet Pea) and had the same impressions pretty much that I did. It was good. He did keep saying over and over again that the bubble gum flavor was delightful and that next time he was going to order it.
I will say that the reviewer that commented in the vast disparity between scoop sizes was right on. Sweet Pea's was 1.5 to 2 times larger than mine.
The atmosphere is cute. Sweet Pea did not like the layout, because the place gets quite busy, and there is no organized line nor even a really good area for everyone to stand in. It's pretty narrow and people get bunched up. On (kind of) an aside: is it me, or are these hipster places becoming interchangeable? It feels kinda beautiful, but soulless. I'm ready for the next thing.
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