Cream of the crop

Ice cream - arguabely a prime global favourite by Dennis Sterne.

Not liking chocolate puts you firmly in ‘The Weird Club’ in my book. Not liking ice cream I’m afraid puts you in the same club only your rank is ‘Club Leader’. To me, ice cream is without question one of the food of the Gods. From childhood it is rightly considered a treat amongst treats and has the capacity to anethetize in the most pleasurable way while warming the culinary senses. Looking for an ice cream that sits somewhere between Carte D’Or and a freshly scooped gelato from the streets of Florence? I’ve handpicked London’s poshest ice creams you can buy from the supermarket (or a fancy food store), so good they will make you melt.

Oppo

Launched in 2014 by brothers Harry and fresh eye

Charlie, Oppo ice cream is all about giving customers a healthier choice of ice cream with all the flavour – each tub only comes in under 200 calories per half tub.

Remeo

Ice cream, sorry gelato (they’re very particular about that) so posh it actually looks like a face cream. Inside these pleasing on the eye pots you’ll find a modern take on Italian gelato, made using the highest quality, environmentally conscious products in Italy.

Hackney Gelato

If you live anywhere near Dalton, London Field, etc, you’ll be familiar with these little pots, usually spotted in the hands of hipsters walking around E5/E8 way.

The brand was founded by two bona fide u

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Happy note: Grab a spoon and dig into your favourite flavour of ice cream, because eating ice cream can actually cheer you up! There is a scientific explanation for the same – when you eat ice cream, your body produces a hormone known as serotonin. Serotonin, which is also known as a feel-good hormone makes you feel happy!

Pure gleeful indulgence....

“I don’t have a sweet tooth, normally; I’m a salty-savory girl. But when I’m pregnant, almost as a ritual, at 4 o’clock, I’ll have cookies-and-cream ice cream!”

- Ivanka Trump - fresh eye chefs, Sam and Enrico, who cut their teeth working at the Michelin-starred Locanda Locatelli. They now make ice cream for a living (the dream) and damn good ice cream it is.

Grom

Considered one of the best ice cream shops in London (they also have outposts all over Italy and stores in Hong Kong, Paris and New York), gelato doesn’t come much better than this.

MiiRO

Posh ice cream doesn’t have to come in a tub, MiiRO’s posh creations come in stick form, perfect for these hot days in the garden or at the park.

Booja-Booja

Sticking with the dairy-free theme, you may know Booja-Booja for their posh, no-dairy chocolates. While I’d quite happily devour a box of their truffles, summertime calls for something just as chocolatey but a hell of a lot colder. Enter their incredible range of ice creams, from fruity rippled concoctions to truffley topped delights – if Willy Wonka were a vegan he’d make these.

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It helps boost your Immunity:

Ice cream is a kind of fermented food and it is said that fermented food is beneficial for our respiratory and gastrointestinal health. A better respiratory system and improved gut health would eventually improve your immunity.

Mentioned brands available at Ocado and Waitrose.

It Is Loaded With Vitamins and Minerals: Ice-cream contains milk and milk solids, which means whenever you eat ice cream, your body obtains the goodness of vitamin D, vitamin A, calcium, phosphorus and riboflavin. Apart from this, the different flavours add extra nutrition quotient to it. For example, dark chocolate ice cream is loaded with antioxidants and flavonoids, which helps in lowering your bad cholesterol and helps improve your heart health.

- Snoop Dog -

This is the Rolls-Royce Spectre. It’s the first ultra-luxurious electric coupe ever made and is one of the most opulent EVs ever built. The Spectre is a gigantic two-door coupe. It’s as long as a Mercedes S-Class Maybach and it weighs nearly three tonnes.

It features the widest grille ever fitted to a RollsRoyce, and the largest one-piece body panels. These stretch from the front windscreen all the way to the rear bumper, completely surrounding the brake lights. The body has very few creases and hard angles – especially when you look at it from the side. This pared-back design helps emphasise the vast 23-inch alloy wheels.

Put all this together, and you can bet the new Spectre will be one of the most imposing-looking cars on the road.

By ensuring from the outset that the Architecture of Luxury could be tailored to the requirements of an all-electric Rolls-Royce, the marque’s engineers ensured the continuity of experience from its current portfolio, each evolution of which has done much to secure the brand’s ongoing global success. Indeed, the inherent flexibility of the architecture and ease of integration of an electric powertrain has freed engineers, designers and craftspeople to focus on the quality of experience, authenticity of design and innovation in Bespoke.

Future spec

The extraordinary undertaking of finessing Spectre enters its final phase before concluding in the second quarter of 2023. Rolls-Royce Spectre is expected to have an all-electric range of 320 miles/520 kilometres WLTP and offer 900Nm of torque from its 430kW powertrain - anticipated to achieve 0-60mph in 4.4 seconds.