Freezing Delices of Paris

These days, it's getting very hot and humid in Paris! The perfect solution to chill down the summer heat? Get some ice cream and sorbet!
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Paris has a large number of glaciers that makes frozen delights of very good quality. As I couldn't decide on a single one, I decided to try a select few that you'll be able to find easily throughout the city.

AMORINO

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Amorino in 47, rue St Louis en Île

Amorino is the biggest player on the Parisian scene of sweets that specialises in italian ice cream and bonbons. I visited their address on île st. Louis, where there's a smaller selection of flavours and no bonbons. A bigger selection can be found at their other locations among others on place de la Bastille or in Beaubourg.

. At amorino you have the opportunity to have your ice cream prepared in the shape of a cornetto; layered like petals of a flower. Mine consisted of lampone (raspberry), mango and coco. Especially the mango was very rich and you cannot go wrong with coconut. A smooth and delicious delight, allthough the lampone was lacking a little in intensity, or maybe it was simply overpowered by the mango!

JEFF DE BRUGES
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Jeff de Bruges in 79, rue de Sèvres

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Jeff de Bruges is a chocolatier that branched out into the world of cold sweets with his own flavours, often involving new and interesting combinations. Also, each Jeff de Bruges franchise now offers a fidelity card which gives you the 10th single cone for free. Not much of a deal you say? Well, you're right, but it's a great excuse to come back more often.

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This time, I went for Chocolat au meringue and Sorbet Passion de Janeiro. Basically these were chocolate with pieces of meringue and dark chocolat sauce and the latter a very, very intense taste of passion fruit. Allthough I'm sure I could've gone with a better combination, as the sorbet was too acid for the creamy and light chocolate, by themselves, the tastes were amazing. I don't think I've ever had a passion fruit sorbet with such an intense flavour. Absolutely Delicious!

BERTHILLON

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Salon de thé at 29, rue St Louis en Île

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The actual tea room of Berthillon is closed for summer holidays, believe it or not, but their products are still easily available throughout the city, especially on île st Louis.

Maybe the most famous glacier in Paris, it's still a family run company that swears to natural flavours and good old fashioned products. They also sell home made cakes and pastries in their tea salon.

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A friend came along to aid me with this one. To the left, there's pêche de vigne with chocolat, to the right you'v got pamplemousse rose with caramel beurre salé. All simple, no nonsene traditional flavours. The pêche de vigne is a certain type of peach grown in the vineyards of Lyon that has a deep red colour. Pamplemousse rose translates to pink grapfruit and last one is caramal made with salty butter.

After tasting each one, we came to the unison conclusion that all of the above were delicious! Even though the sorbets of berthillon sometimes are less smooth than others with some crystallized parts, the flavours are so intense and concentrated it makes it more than worth it. It's my absolute favourite ice cream here in Paris (allthough the jeff de Bruges passion fruit is a nice second) and can best be decribed as concentrated bombs of flavour. There's a reason why the coupes you get at Berthillion are smaller, as there's twice as much taste in them. Yummy!