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Milkshakes at The Diner

Nov 06, 10

Posted by Edmund in Featured Articles, Ice Cream & Gelato, Washington, DC

Cuisine: American Diner. Specialty: Milkshakes. Location: 2453 18th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20009. Price: $5 for the Milkshakes. It’s no secret that I love ice cream. If there’s one ice cream concoction that I love the most, though, it’s the milkshake. I was pretty excited, then, when a friend told me about The...

Dolcezza

Oct 23, 10

Posted by Edmund in Featured Articles, Ice Cream & Gelato, Washington, DC

Cuisine: Argentine Gelato Location: A Few Locations in DC. Main Storefront at 1560 Wisconsin Ave., NW. Price: $5 for a small cup While I was in Argentina, I had some of the best gelato I’ve ever had in my life. With such a rich Italian immigrant community (in fact, it’s estimated that the vast majority of Argentines have at...

Max’s Best Ice Cream

Oct 14, 10

Posted by Edmund in Featured Articles, Ice Cream & Gelato, Washington, DC

Cuisine: American-Style Ice Cream. Location: 2416 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20007-1845. Price: $3.45 for a single scoop, up to $5.75 for a triple. As you all know by now, I’m an ice cream fanatic. Everywhere I go, I have to rush over and get my hands on the local ice cream, continuing my quest to find the best...

Larry’s Ice Cream & Cookies

Apr 27, 10

Posted by Edmund in Ice Cream & Gelato, Washington, DC

Address: 1633 Connecticut Ave NW., Washington, DC 20009. Price: $4-$6 for 1-3 scoops. 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

Apr 22, 10

Posted by Edmund in Ice Cream & Gelato, Washington, DC

Price: $3.50-$5.50 for 2-4 scoops. Address: 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 the end of my...

Pitango Gelato

Apr 13, 10

Posted by Edmund in Ice Cream & Gelato, Washington, DC

Address: 1451 P St NW., Washington, DC 20005. Price: $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. Pitango...