On Ice Cream
I told you the other day that Molly Moon’s Ice Cream was opening in Wallingford. Well, several Seattle MetBloggers visited during their opening and we had a rather lively discussion about ice cream afterward. Now, for your reading pleasure, I present parts of our discussion. Note: Dramatic license has been taken with some of the comments and names have been changed.
Sylvie: I wasn’t impressed.
Theresa: Really? I thought the Balsamic Strawberry was great and the Vivace Coffee ice cream was out of this world. I did think the scoops were a bit small though.
Sylvie: I tried a number of flavors and none of them really screamed out wow, yummy ice cream. Plus, they were ridiculously small. So small that I thought I mistakenly got a child sized scoop.
Theresa: Well, I do agree the scoops were small. The pints were well priced though at $5.00. The Thai Iced Tea flavor tasted exactly like Thai Iced Tea - weird but cool.
Emily: Ooooh, I missed this place. Where is it? I found a great ice cream shop during the artwalk in Greenwood/Fremont.
Theresa: It’s in Wallingford. My favorite ice cream shop, by far, is The Scoop at Walt’s in Sunset Hill. Amazingly large scoops of Snoqualmie Ice cream and great waffle cones. I’ll definitely go back to Molly Moon’s in a few weeks and hope that they were just giving small scoops because it was opening weekend.
I still want to try some of them. Maybe this weekend if I can find the time.
I don’t want to get too harsh, but the salted caramel was wayyy too salty and gave an "off" flavor. It didn’t taste like Kosher or sea salt to me… more of an iodized tint.
All the way back home, I kept murmuring to myself "I really want to like this, I really, really do."
That being said, the scoop underneath, vivant coffee, was good… but not good enough to make me forget about the caramel.
I’ll definitely be back, I *need* them to succeed! :)
~Spec
All Things Chill
I agree with you on the salted caramel. By itself it was too salty. However, when I had it with the Vivace coffee, the two made a nice mix. The coffee by itself I thought was very good.
I’d be very interested to try a milkshake with 3/4 coffee and 1/4 salted caramel.
Spec, what did you think of the scoop size for the price? I’m curious whether they have gotten any bigger now that they aren’t in the middle of opening weekend.
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I lived in San Francisco for a while and have paid much more for much less (Embarcadero farmers’ market comes to mind), so I really don’t mind spending the cash if it’s worth it. :)
~Spec
was slyvie supposed to be me? i said those same exact things in our little chats.
i thought all of the flavors left a bad taste in my mouth. even afterwards, i couldn’t get that weird filmy, milky, chalky taste out.
An update: I walked by Molly Moon’s again tonight. Scoops are $3.00. Pints are $5.00, and quarts are $8.50.
Toppings (which I’ve heard are great, but haven’t sampled) are $1.00 each. They also had 3 different sundaes, but I didn’t see a price for those.
I’m also very happy to report that the scoops looked a lot more "normal" sized than they did during the grand opening. Still not quite as big as Walter’s, but they were the size scoops that you’d find at your average ice cream shop.