Review Fancy Ices - Adelaide

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

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.

Tryed this place a few months ago. Had high expectations as i craved a perfect textured/structured frozen desert. Unfortunately it failed to deliver. I had espresso made with fresh espresso which was over extracted and weak. I feel that there is a lot of room for improvement. When using n2o to freeze a liquid, the result should be superb, creating an ever smooth silky texture. Due to the instant sub-zero temperatures and rapid freezing process, microscopic ice crystals are formed resulting in optimal texture. This should be the whole beauty about eating an n2o fix. The faster the freezing process, the smaller the crystals. So in actual fact there is no excuse for poor structure or texture. Its freshly made on demand. Dissapointing and needs some product fine tuning.

Excited to try this new novel ice creamery, we headed into town in anticipation. I have to say I was a little disappointed. Watching the ice cream being made is a bit of fun, I must say, but the flavours were not great. I can see by the previous reviews that everyone enjoyed their experience, unfortunately we did not, maybe our expectation were a little too high. We had the Ferrero Rocher and I found the ingredients to be so so, it just tasted like a bowl of sugar and the injection of chocolate sauce was not the greatest quality. I did find that the creaminess you find in other ice creameries products seemed to be missing in this method of making ice cream. We then had the smoky pannacotta, which again tasted like a bowl of sugar. The description of the ingredients in this dish had a few couverture chocolate components. The panacotta part of the dish, was not as panacotta should be. The other chocolate components I believe were not made from couverture chocolate, please correct me if I'm wrong, but it certainly did not taste of good chocolate. Decor is lovely and clean, service is good. This is a novel place to visit and a must try. I would, however, love to see better ingredients used in the dishes as this really does make a huge difference.

“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.

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!<br/>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. <br/>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.

After I (Amanda) heard that Adelaide finally had their first liquid nitrogen ice creamery I couldn't wait to give it a go. Having been to N2 Extreme Gelato in Melbourne my mouth was watering in anticipation.  Fancy Ices is located just off Gouger Street on Field Street in a newly developed block of shops. The shop is modern and minimalistic with some outdoor tables and chairs and an indoor communal wall-facing bench with stools.  Getting the Liquid Nitrogen ready Watching the ice cream specialists make your liquid nitrogen ice cream is definitely half the fun and is a point of difference from other typical ice cream/gelato establishments currently located in Adelaide.

As of January 17th, food and science were brought together for a creative and original new take on dessert. I present to you… Fancy Ices! Sitting on a quieter alley way off the bustling Gouger Street, Fancy Ices made its home in Adelaide just in time for summer. When you walk in their open entrance, expect to be greeted with a clean, simple interior. The Fancy Ices store reflected just what their Nitrogen ice creams were: refreshing, innovative, and surprisingly simple. Yep, you heard right – Adelaide’s very first  liquid Nitrogen ice cream joint! Sticking out like a sore thumb, though, is the Nitrogen tank tucked in the corner of the store, which will seem a little daunting. The smoke coming out of the tank and the kitchen mixers comes from the extremely cold liquid Nitrogen (stored well below -200°C) evaporating. Behind the counter are your mixologists, donned in lab-coats, goggles, and gloves working on little experiments that will soon be your ice cream. Don’t worry, it’s perfectly safe… and delicious! The extremely cold liquid nitrogen is extracted from the tank and poured into the cream and flavour of your choice. It’s then mixed until the cream reaches the perfect consistency – similar to that of gelato. Sweet corn; $7.00 Currently four flavours are listed on their soft opening menu: Fancy Ferrero, Sweet Corn, Oreo Panda, and V8. Starting next week, they’ll bring out four new flavours and continuously experiment with new flavours until the more popular ones are established. Looking for something out of the ordinary (as of Nitrogen in my ice cream wasn’t enough), I went for an unusual flavor – Sweet Corn. Surprisingly, it worked! The base of the ice cream was a simple sweet cream with bits of corn kernels mixed throughout, topped with fresh and creamy corn and corn flakes cereal. (Did I mention… there was corn?) This is the go-to for those without a sweet tooth as the star ingredient balanced out the sweet cream. Oreo panda; $7.00 The boyfriend ordered the Ore