An ice-cream maker with a genius for the dark stuff — theguardian.com

Like many great discoveries, Venchi was uncovered quite serendipitously. We were in search of ice-cream in Covent Garden and almost tripped over the ‘crowd control’ cord outside. My dad used to be an ice-cream maker so, since he died, buying ice-cream has been a bittersweet (and often disappointing) experience for me. But Venchi was all joy. For one, the ice-cream (I’m fussy) is expensive, but amazing. For two, there is a tap, which pours forth molten chocolate to coat the cones’ tops – but you can also ask for a small cup to spoon-feed yourself with. For three, I discovered later, Venchi makes amazing chocolate spread (as detailed three weeks ago). And four, it’s been making superb chocolate for over 100 years.

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