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Archive for Sundae

Ghirardelli Ice Cream

Feb26

My son’s first visit to San Francisco would not have been complete without a visit to Ghirardelli‘s world-famous chocolate and ice cream factory.


The former chocolate factory looms over the old port.


How can anyone resist that kind of advertising?


Inside, we have all sorts of old timey machinery churning chocolate.


This all pretty much all for show but it looks cool anyway.


Yum. Vat of chocolate. And they hand out free Ghirardelli squares randomly too.


Some of the good stuff coming off the assembly line.


My son is a purist.  He wanted chocolate ice cream with chocolate waffle cone.


I went for this peanut butter sundae. Vanilla ice cream, peanut butter sauce,  chocolate sauce,  chocolate peanut butter square.  It was darn good, although not as decadent as the bacon sundae.


Classic hot fudge sundae  with one scoop vanilla, one scoop chocolate.

At the next table they had  this ape-stopper kind of thing. 6 or 8 scoops at least and lots of sauces.
All in all, some darn good stuff that pretty much killed our appetite for dinner — although we managed anyway. Plus we were well fortified for the two-hour cable car line.
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For more San Fran dining reviews click here.

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By: agavin
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Tagged as: chocolate, Food and Related Products, Frozen, Ghirardelli, Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, Ice cream, Ice cream cone, Peanut butter, San Francisco, Sundae

The Bourbon Caramel Bacon Sundae

Jan22

Restaurant: Sweet Rose Creamery [1, 2]

Location:  225 26th Ave, suite 51, Santa Monica, 90402  310-260-CONE

Date: January 21, 2012

Cuisine: Homemade Ice Cream

Rating: Very REAL ice cream. And they have bacon!

ANY CHARACTER HERE

A local favorite of ours at the Brentwood Country Mart is Sweet Rose Creamery. They make real homemade ice cream using only the traditional and natural ingredients. None of those emulsifiers and artificial flavors.


The board of flavors.


My brother with his normal ice cream. Fresh mint and coffee on the left, caramel on the right.


But I’ve never been normal, check out the fourth sundae down.


The bacon sundae! Yes, it’s true. A scoop of caramel ice cream and a scoop of verve coffee ice cream with bourbon carmel sauce, candied bacon, pecan crumble and whipped cream.


The side view. This was a seriously decadent sundae. The caramel tasted pretty strongly of bourbon too, but it was the whole bacon and carmel thing that really made it. Bacon is so good with gooey sweet stuff. 10/10.

Check out the more ice cream oriented review of sweet rose.

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By: agavin
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Posted in: Food
Tagged as: Bacon, Bacon Sundae, Business, Dairy, Frozen, Ice cream, Santa Monica California, Sundae, whipped cream
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