Baskin Robbins

As a student in London, sometimes crises occur. Particularly during finals week, it’s not an unusual thing to find people a bit stressed out by projects, presentations, deadlines… the whole gamut. So when a close friend came to me and said, «I need ice cream». I «called» the Unilocal-​line for suggestions. In the end, we settled on the Baskin Robbins near school, because it’s simple, easy to walk to, and reminded us of home.
There are so many ice cream flavors, including all of my favorites from home. I was able to have both a lemon sorbet and a rainbow sorbet in one cup, which sounds horrible but was probably a better choice than either of them with the mint chocolate chip I was originally eying. My friend had a super outrageous chocolate brownie with hot fudge and cookie dough ice cream. It was exactly what we both needed to survive.
The guy working the counter was super friendly, very patient and helpful in aiding us in the extensive decision-​making process. We sat down in the back of the store for quite a while chatting, and never felt rushed. It was a really nice study break. It’s a super convenient location, right across from the British Museum. A little slice of home, right in the heart of Bloomsbury.

Both Baskin and Robbin would be disappointed with aspects of this place, rolling in their delicious ice cream graves over the prices these days.
I’ve been here a few times and on a couple of instances they have completely run out of several flavors, not to be restocked for several days. Once the entire right side of the store was empty (about 15 of the flavors).
You may be asking, WHY MR. BEN Y. ARE YOU THEN GIVING THEM FOUR STARS?
Wellllllll you can’t fault a place in a chain for its prices as they rarely decide them. Second, they have a really great deal where any ice cream you buy, you get a free bottled water!
There is vendor guy standing out there and he gives you one after your purchase. Very random, but I love it because I always need water with my ice cream. I’m not kidding; everyone always makes fun of me for it but I always need water while downing my cookie dough ice cream. So the whole free water business is a big deal.
It’s right near the British Museum so get educated and then get ice cream on your nose.

It’s a bit dull inside and there are now many better ice cream parlours around, but its not bad considering the tourist location :)

When I was a child I lived abroad for a bit. It was a hot place and there were lots of Baskin and Robbins shops, which was wonderful and contributed to me becoming a little chubby. So when I saw this shop last summer I was quite excited.
It is just across the road from the British Museum and so primed for tourists. It is quite a small shop with an ice cream counter that runs along the left, there are seats toward the back. Baskin and Robbins is famous for its ’31 flavours’ and these are displayed at the counter. You can have it in a normal cone or you can order a sundae. I usually get a cone to walk along with. The ice cream is nice, of a decent quality, and, clearly, the range of flavours is good for mixing things up.
I don’t know how much ice cream suits London, still, this is a good place to stop and get a snack after visiting the Museum or for walking around with.

I was intrigued to spot this place in Great Russell street after noticing the sign saying ’31 flavours of ice cream’ (!) open from 10am till 10pm. Thinking it sounded like a fun place to try out I asked my flat mate about it who informed me it was in fact an American chain shop… not quite as exciting as I had thought. But still… I hadn’t seen it anywhere else so thought it would be worth going in.
They offer ice cream in cones or hand packed tubs, ice cream sundaes and milk shakes as well as hot beverages and cakes, and the price ranges from £1.70 for a kids scoop to £15.95 for a 1360g hand packed tub. At the counter I remembered I was supposed to be on my Christmas diet so I modestly choose 1 scoop of rocky road for £2.10 after the realisation that any more probably contains the recommended daily calories in a one tub!
I have to admit the crunchy almonds and soft marshmallow in creamy chocolate ice cream were really scrummy, and there are so many other choices to choose from — it is definitely an ice cream fiends dream. But, after reading on the internet about their obscene fat content and the fact that I’m quite anti– American chain, I doubt I’ll be going back.