🍦 WHAT: 1 Cone of 1 Scoop of Mac Chip Ice Cream!
🍦 Vanilla ice cream
🔶 Macarons, various flavors
📍WHERE: Zai’s Dessertery
Upper West Side
468 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10024
WHIT’s scale out of 5:
Creativity: 😉😉😉😉😉
Presentation: 😎😎😎😎
Taste: 😋😋😋
Texture: 😜😜😜
Value: 😄😄😄😄
Overall Experience: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📝 SHORT & SWEET: Mac chip ice cream is Zai’s signature flavor, which is fantastically gluten-free! Both vanilla & various macaron flavors could be stronger. In terms of texture, the vanilla ice cream was fine, however macaron mix-ins were a little on the hardened and somewhat crispy side. Value-wise, it’s a great deal considering one scoop is $4.
📝 STORY: We were shopping around our neighborhood, and happened upon Zai’s! Not Zai like bye, but bae! Hey baeee!! ;)
I thought about just getting bubble tea, as the sign outside advertised bubble tea among various desserts - the place being a dessertery after all. So originally I thought I was going to get bubble tea! Then we entered the space, saw the menu, and was surprised to see ice cream being offered! Therefore I decided in ADDITION to bubble tea, I would try their ice cream!
I saw cookies & cream in their selection and was about to get it - Except I noticed they had a signature flavor, mac chip ice cream. According to a placard thoughtfully placed above the ice cream display, Zai’s described this flavor as a vanilla ice cream combined with macarons that didn’t make it to the display shelf LOL.
I think that’s pretty awesome that these unsightly macarons aren’t wasted, and get incorporated into ice cream. Yay no waste!
💭 THOUGHTS: So! What did I think? I think it was alright! Overall it tasted similar to cake frosting. The macaron bits ended up being on the hardened side and was a little crispy. I wasn’t able to taste too much vanilla flavor. I’d maybe increase the vanilla flavoring so there’s more flavor overall
ENCORE: Yes! I would come back, to try other flavors! Namely cookies & cream. Or vanilla. Or both.
Other random (architectural) notes:
Super random, but as an architect I found this amusing.
I would have personally placed this signage somewhere else, maybe at the eating areas towards the back where you can take photos with it. The space in front of this wall was very little, about 3 to 4 feet - not enough to take a good selfie haha.