The Food Buster

I just wanted to notify everyone that I’ll be slowing down reviews just a bit while I take care of some back-end work on the site. I’m hoping to come out with a sleeker template and a clearer format. In the meantime, though, I’ll have to take some time away from the reviews, focusing mostly [...]

Larry’s Ice Cream & Cookies
$4-$6 for 1-3 scoops.
1633 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20009
Like I’ve said before, DC isn’t really much of an ice cream city, and you’d be very hard pressed to find many artisanal ice cream makers. So whenever I do hear of that rare (and I do mean, very rare) case of an independent, small-time, [...]

Thomas Sweets
$3.50-$5.50 for 2-4 scoops.
3214 P Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20007-2744
When I was still a young college freshman and had just moved to Georgetown in DC, I really didn’t know much about the culinary scene, so I had to go by a lot of hearsay from the other students. So I remember one day near [...]

Pitango Gelato
1451 P St NW
Washington, DC 20005
$5-$6.50 for 2-3 scoops
The nation’s capital, as expected, has some of the best food you can get on the East Coast. Unfortunately, that doesn’t apply so much to ice cream. So it’s only rarely that I really hear about a gelato place around that I just have to try. [...]

Fosselman’s Ice Cream
$2.50-$4.50 for 1-3 scoops
1824 West Main Street
Alhambra, CA 91801-1897
My absolute favorite dessert is ice cream. Unfortunately, though, Los Angeles isn’t the best place to find great ice cream, at least in my experience. So it’s really a treat when you find a special ice cream place like Fosselman’s in Alhambra. Fosselman’s claim to [...]

Abuela Goye
Argentine Gelato Producer
Buenos Aires and Bariloche, Argentina
Overall Score: 2.7/5.0
Abuela Goye is known as one of the finest chocolate producers in all of Argentina. Though I can’t say its chocolates are some of the best I’ve ever had, it does serve some great dessert and sweet treats in general, such as chocolate-covered cookies and chocolate [...]

Un Altra Volta
Argentine Gelato Producer
Buenos Aires, Argentina

While Persicco is known as the reigning king of gelato in Buenos Aires, Volta’s claim to fame is its chocolate, considered the only to be able to rival Persicco’s. The stores themselves are also some of the trendier places in town, like Persicco’s, as they are open late [...]

Jauja
Bariloche

Most regions in Argentina have their own regional takes on ice cream, particularly in terms of flavor profiles. Jauja serves that role in Bariloche, the land of chocolate in the Patagonian South. It is known as undoubtedly the best producer of gelato in Bariloche, and for good reason. Its flavors are extremely unique, integrating some [...]