Fancy Ices

I was curious about their ice cream since I had eaten it made by this process before. They did a nice presentation with the ice cream but in the end, the flavour wasn’t there. I don’t think it’s worth 7 dollars for a cup of it.

While the dishes look fantastic, with clouds of fairy floss and intricate patterning, but the taste is mediocre at best. We waited about 5 mins at the counter without acknowledgement, waiting to be served, as there was only one worker (others appeared in sporadically throughout our time there), our drinks came out separately, about 10mins apart, my friends earl grey was undrinkable, my chai latte was almost cold by the time it came out. I had the strawberry panna cotta that was bland, my friend had the smores plate that would have been nice if it hadn’t had an overwhelming amount of truffle oil. Definitely not on my list of places to return to.

When I heard about Adelaide finally having its own ‘N2 style’ ice cream joint I was both skeptical yet intrigued. Liquid nitrogen ice cream stores have been all the rage over in Melbourne and Sydney over the last few years and now this concept has now triggered down to little Adelaide.
Intrigued mainly how they would bring about this concept and skeptical if it would come any close to being as good as N2 or The Lab in Melbourne CBD. At the moment there isn’t a wide variety of flavours to choose from (the last time I checked there were only about four or five) but I guess after a while they will introduce more flavours. I tried the ‘Fancy Ferrero’ with my friend and while it’s nice and it does look similar to what you would get at N2 I noticed instantly how much smaller the portion sizes at Fancy ices are in comparison to the latter. At $ 7 or so it’s not cheap but at N2 or The Lab I was happy to pay more because although it is not cheap either but at least at those ice cream joints there is more value.
Like I said the ice cream is nice but not great in comparison to N2, not as smooth. I guess I’m willing to give Fancy Ices another try when they find their feet and hopefully introduce more flavours down the track but at the moment I think it’s a-​ok.