sarah g.
Yelp
I dont usually like writing negative reviews but wow i was disappointed. Perhaps i was spoiled by my trip last home to nj where i enjoyed homemade custard made out of the back of refrigeration truck by a wife and husband with amazing texture and flavor
or maybe it was the 98 degree day with humidiity and me just craving good ice cream.
Long story short: i got cherry vanilla because they ran out of vanilla custard. What ??? this is what I came here for, and the alternative, chocolate custard, is just a no bueno for me : i must taste the vanilla nature of custard) so i opted instead for cherry vanilla ice cream because well I like good cherries i just asssumed they were real cherries.
Nope they were marachino, darn, and the whole dare cup , a whopping 7 bucks or so for a small, was incredilbyl too too sweet. If ice cream is too sweet it overpowers the texture, the mouth feel. OK i sound like a wine snob here, but let face it, texture matters, and this stuff was way sticky sweet.
Plus literally 2 bites into it,the whole thing was dripping and melting all over. It was about to go south at that moment, so i just abandoned ship.
Ahoy I am done, and I let it go into those lovely electronic garbage cans by the waterfront. My friend had cookie dough icevcream, but he is not as judgemental as me, and he is like 6ft 3 so he can down some ice cream but he also said the cookie dough chunks were too big and sweet, too much to digest.
anyhow i did kind of waste 7 bucks but its okay i might have gone into sugar shock. I could come back to try vanilla custart but nope i will try another local place, that has more "staying power" Until then my yelp friends, we need some good homemade ice cream shops in the DMV so I will continue to hunt....