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Ziggy Whip ice cream flavors have included Angostura bitters, galia melon and bay leaf. P H OTO : P ROV I D E D
OTR’s Punk Creamy Whip The Ziggy Whip walk-up window offers innovative ice cream flavors, piping hot hand pies and plenty of vegan options with a changing weekly menu and a show-flyer aesthetic BY SA M I ST E WA RT
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avid Jackman was sitting at the bar at Collective Espresso in Over-the-Rhine when he got wind that the nearby The Takeaway was reopening. The Main Street deli and bottle shop had been hibernating for the winter and opened up again at the start of this
summer. Since its inception, The Takeaway has doubled as a home for pop-up restaurant concepts via its walk-up window on Woodward Street (e.g. Boombox Buns, Pata Roja Taquería). With that in mind, Jackman asked The Takeaway if he could run a restaurant out of the window and shortly
thereafter opened Ziggy Whip, the city’s newest creamy whip and certainly the only one to offer “handies” — Ziggyspeak for hand pies (get your mind out of the gutter). Jackman works alongside his wife, Lydia, as well as Ethan Bartlett. The trio has decades of culinary experience between them and the résumés to show for it. Prior to starting up Ziggy Whip, Lydia ran the foodservice at Oakley Wines and The Rhined, Bartlett was at Sleepy Bee and Jackman was the sous chef at the now-shuttered Please. Now, they’ve combined their expertise to bring their own concept to life. “We didn’t want to just start working in other restaurants and keep putting our ideas to the side,” Jackman says. “We had been working in enough restaurants at this point that we just wanted to work for ourselves.”
With a go-ahead from The Takeaway, the world was their oyster. The team shares a love of ice cream (the seasonal Putz’s, near Northside, is unanimously their favorite), and opening a creamy whip came up while brainstorming restaurant concepts — but certainly not one that would blend in with the rest of the city’s offerings. They wanted to set themselves apart from the usual ice cream shack lineup by offering “savory things and fun ice creams that are different from a normal whip,” Jackman says. Most creamy whips around the city offer food of the concession-stand variety — coneys, hamburgers, walking tacos — but Ziggy Whip offers “beautiful adult hot pockets,” Bartlett says. “They’re delicious and fun and not something you can get elsewhere.” CONTINUES ON PAGE 20
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