Very cool! Watching the staff create our ice creams using liquid nitrogen was very entertaining.. The ice cream was smooth, creamy and tasty.
Tucked away on Field Street near Chinatown, in that new building alongside Metro Oyster Bar and Yen Linh, you will find a lab. An ice cream lab called Fancy Ices, a dessert house offering so much more than ice cream. Watching them make it is a spectacle in itself!. You may be intrigued by smoke and people in goggles and lab coats as you walk past. It’s no smoke machine. It’s liquid nitrogen and that’s how they make their ice cream here. Made to order, it gets churned and frozen on the spot by liquid nitrogen right in front of your eyes. The result? A very smooth and light gelato.
“Fancy Ices” is breaking ground in Adelaide with their freshly made nitrogen gelato. Hidden in Field Street, just off Gouger, this ice-cold heaven is the perfect place for an after dinner treat any night of the week. The family run business is the first of its kind in Adelaide, using nitrogen to freshly freeze the gelato. The wait for your scoop is a bit longer, but well worth it as the gelato prep will keep you entertained.
Craving a dessert I took a detour off Gouger st and found the hidden away Fancy Ices. I saw S'mores on the menu for $15 and was curious. They are toasted marshmallows with chocolate served on a biscuit. I also grabbed a sweet apple hot chocolate. My eating buddy went for the Smoky C which is a applewood smoked panna cotta. The S'mores were nice but became quite rich and coupled with the hot chocolate I was defeated by chocolate overload. The sweet apple hot chocolate was nice though could be more chocolaty. I was told the panna cotta was nice but I could not pick up on the smokey tones due to my chocolate death. I think the S'mores should be shared or order a light drink to go with it.
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I love Fancy Ices! I am generally not a big fan of dessert but I am a huge ice cream fan. Having said that there are a lot of disappointing ice creameries scattered around Adelaide. They all seem to meld into one monotonous template for me - endless variations of flavours but somehow all tasting the same - uninspiring and so sickeningly rich that it's a struggle to eat a whole cup or cone. But you have to try because you forked out a lot of cash for that scoop!
The difference with the ice cream at fancy ices is that it is made using liquid nitrogen. The ice cream is airy and fluffy and the flavours are tasty but not overpowering and packed with that sugar hit. The result is that you can eat a whole cup and not feel disgusting afterwards.
There are currently only 7 flavours available but they are all great, and the process takes a little bit of time. They aren't the cheapest but that's understandable because of the process required. The prices are still almost comparable with regular ice creameries though.Purely for ice cream, I would much rather visit Fancy Ices than anywhere else in Adelaide at the moment. I am yet to try any of their other desserts though.
Fancy Ices.... What an odd and unexpected icecreamery!! Staff are super friendly and happy to chat and answer any questions about the icecream process and the use of liquid nitrogen. As explained by staff they're having a "soft opening" which explains the 5 flavour menu. Ferraro Roche was delicious! I will definitely be back, not only a really interesting process to watch but the ingredients were really basic, at least you know what you're eating!!
If you’ve ever watched cooking shows, you would have seen liquid nitrogen being used in the kitchen at one point or another. Some fancy restaurants like to use it to freeze food or drinks, or to merely showcase its vapour when it’s exposed to air. With a tank full of liquid nitrogen nearby, Fancy Ices blends all of the required ingredients to give you a fresh batch of ice cream not long after ordering.
LOVED this place. Happened to stumble upon it with a large group of friends. Was SO warm upstairs on a freezing Winter's night. The menu items were so yummy, service was great, and loved watching them make our food!! We'll be back!!
Hands down my favourite! Great staff and great food
Friendly staff, delicious food and reasonably priced
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