De IJssalon Meent, Rotterdam
After my first official gelato of the year at the Doppio ice cream parlor, I went for my second at De IJssalon, located at the Meent 69A, Rotterdam. It isn't my first visit there, but it is the first time, I have actually taken pictures of it for my blog.
Previously, I have visited De IJssalon shop in the Markthal and because it only has about 12 flavors and you can only pay with a PIN-card, I recommended you to visit the main store on the Meent, which is only a short walk away, instead. As you can see in the pictures below, I wasn't kidding about the +20 flavors.
From left to right: banana, cassis sorbet, kinderbueno, coconut macron, caramel, cappuccino, almond crunch, and raspberry sorbet.
From left to right: bourbon vanilla (+€0.20), rum raisin, passion fruit sorbet, yogurt, walnut, cookie dough, white chocolate, oreo cookies, chocolate, and mango sorbet.
From left to right: hazelnut, lemon-lime sorbet, stracciatella, strawberry sorbet, pistachio (+€0.50), and cherry mania (also tasted at Doppio ice cream parlor).
White chocolate with white choco rice puffs
The ice cream has a very rich white chocolate flavor with a nice buttery flavor and the white chocolate rice puffs pearls had the right small size so that you can taste it in almost every bite and even though very tasty and crunchy, they don't overpower the ice cream.
Cookie dough with large blocks of dough and crispy dark chocolate bits
The ice cream base was not very special, but the chunky cookie dough cubes and the crispy chocolate bits were nice. It is not the best cookie dough ice cream I had.
Almond crunch flavor ice cream
I really like the very airy and creamy almond ice cream with a very rich almond flavor. The crunch comes from the chocolate covered, rectangular crunchies with almond bits.
Cappuchino
I tasted a bit of it and it had a nice coffee flavor. Along the side of the wall, there is a coffee counter inside this ice cream parlor and I ordered the best cappucino I had, so coffee is definitely their forte.
Hazelnut
It has a nice hazelnut flavor and it was better than the AH hazelnut gelato I tried before.
Lemon lime sorbet
It is a refreshing, lemon lime sorbet ice cream and it is exactly what I expected. A sweet and zesty flavor, which is very thirst quenching.
Previously, I have visited De IJssalon shop in the Markthal and because it only has about 12 flavors and you can only pay with a PIN-card, I recommended you to visit the main store on the Meent, which is only a short walk away, instead. As you can see in the pictures below, I wasn't kidding about the +20 flavors.
From left to right: pistachio (+€0.50), cherry mania, stracciatella, strawberry sorbet, hazelnut, lemon-lime sorbet, chocolate, and mango.
From left to right: banana, cassis sorbet, kinderbueno, coconut macron, caramel, cappuccino, almond crunch, and raspberry sorbet.
From left to right: bourbon vanilla (+€0.20), rum raisin, passion fruit sorbet, yogurt, walnut, cookie dough, white chocolate, oreo cookies, chocolate, and mango sorbet.
From left to right: hazelnut, lemon-lime sorbet, stracciatella, strawberry sorbet, pistachio (+€0.50), and cherry mania (also tasted at Doppio ice cream parlor).
It was hard to make a decision, when all those ice cream flavors look so delicious, but I went for the white chocolate, cookie dough, and almond crunch. You can choose for an ice cream cone or an ice cream cup, but I usually get the ice cream cup when I take more than one scoop to avoid a melting mess. I really like that you get a free round piece of crunchy wafer with the ice cream cup, so no matter what you pick, you get to eat wafer with your ice cream.
White chocolate with white choco rice puffs
The ice cream has a very rich white chocolate flavor with a nice buttery flavor and the white chocolate rice puffs pearls had the right small size so that you can taste it in almost every bite and even though very tasty and crunchy, they don't overpower the ice cream.
Cookie dough with large blocks of dough and crispy dark chocolate bits
The ice cream base was not very special, but the chunky cookie dough cubes and the crispy chocolate bits were nice. It is not the best cookie dough ice cream I had.
Almond crunch flavor ice cream
I really like the very airy and creamy almond ice cream with a very rich almond flavor. The crunch comes from the chocolate covered, rectangular crunchies with almond bits.
What the other person got
Cappuchino
I tasted a bit of it and it had a nice coffee flavor. Along the side of the wall, there is a coffee counter inside this ice cream parlor and I ordered the best cappucino I had, so coffee is definitely their forte.
Hazelnut
It has a nice hazelnut flavor and it was better than the AH hazelnut gelato I tried before.
Lemon lime sorbet
It is a refreshing, lemon lime sorbet ice cream and it is exactly what I expected. A sweet and zesty flavor, which is very thirst quenching.