Vancouver - La Casa Gelato

One of my very favourite culinary spots in Vancouver is La Casa Gelato. As the name suggests, this shop deals in ice cream. In fact, it is a shrine to ice cream. It stocks exactly 218 different flavours of the cold stuff, to be precise. But they actually make more than 500.
You can get your old vanilla, chocolate or strawberry if you are more of an ice cream purist. If you are feeling slightly daring, you might decide to go with pumpkin cheesecake, black sesame or strawberry daiquiri. And for the outright adventurous there are flavours like wild fennel, pear & gorgonzola or curry.
And the best thing is that you get help deciding. Just approach one of the nice young people behind the counter, tell them what you like the look of and they will give you a bit on a taster spoon. To be repeated until you know what you want.
Once you have made your mind up, you buy a token at the till and trade it in for ice cream. Which you can have in a cup or a home-made waffle cone (dipped in chocolate and sprinkles, if your fancy ice cream deserves something flamboyant).
Even though La Casa Gelato is in slightly lonely location, I make a point of requesting a visit every time we are in town. It's a must for anybody like me, who counts ice cream as one of their main food groups!

They do ice cream cakes, too.

And chocolate dipped waffle sticks.

When we finally decided:

Mango Tamarind & White Chocolate Cherry for Marco. 

Chocolate Pernod & Chestnut Chocolate Chip for me.

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