When Kitty Travers sells her homemade ice cream at Spa Terminus, a hub of food producers in south London which opens to the public on Saturdays, she likes to imagine she’s creating more than something delicious. “Ice cream has a great nostalgia factor to it,” she says. “For me, it’s connected with memories of going abroad when I was younger, to France and Italy, but everybody has their own. That’s my ambition: it would be lovely to create memories for someone else.” Travers started La Grotta Ices in 2009, after four years as a pastry chef at St John Bread and Wine, and has been pushing the boundaries of ice-cream making ever since, whipping up treats from cucumbers and pea pods to candied kumquats. For OFM, though, she has perfected a classic flavour. What’s good about making your own raspberry ripple ice cream, she says, is that “you’re in control of how much raspberry you add. I use one-third raspberry puree and two-thirds ice cream. It’s really tasty.”
You don’t need fancy equipment to make it at home, just a bowl, a thermometer and a whisk, although, she says: “Ice-cream makers are inexpensive now – £20 will get you a good one. It’s also worth investing in a good stainless steel pan with a thick bottom and a heart-shaped spring form whisk, which gets into the corners of the pan to prevent the milk and eggs from overcooking.”
What is it about ice cream, I wonder, that makes her want to master it? “It’s a magic food,” she says. “We love eating it because it’s fun: the way it melts in your mouth, the way it doesn’t make you full. I’m always trying to make something that’s as perfect as a ripe peach using only natural ingredients. It’s a challenge, but if you get it right it makes people...
Read morePlace has flies but okay, Service is fine but the food, ordered a starter platter and cold coffee, cold coffee was very watery, in starter platter u get two types of so called "garlic bread", nachos, french fries, and nuggest kinda things, nuggets like thing is fine, french fries seems like are made by some learner/beginner, nachos are straight popped from doritos chips packets you get on shops, and the hero of othe platter GARLIC BREAD, nothing good about those whatever it is called(garlic bread), small slice bread which u get on ur kirana shops, big chopped pieces of garlics, bread not seasoned well, slice bread not grilled properly, all soft, guess someone who makes it never had a garlic bread before, feels like i was eating a morning butter bread, not tasty at all, we left it. My 11 year old cousin can make better garlic bread than that. For me food is more important as im paying for it, and service is second important thing n ambience can be decent. This is definitely not the place i suggest to anyone, because of low quality food at high priced, not worthy at all, if ur hoping for a nice tasty snacks, a big NO! Garlic bread- 1/10 Cold coffee- 2/10 French fries - 3/10 Crunchy nuggest like thing - 7/10 Nachos - taken from dorritos bruh what to rate that now? Price- 1/10 Service 7/10 Ambience - 5/10 Better to visit dominoz...
Read moreA great place to visit with friends👭n👬 n family 🍃 place was very clean n very attractive with all food message pictures around...... The lighting was lovely ❤😊 Good sitting arrangements... Dey hv used the place very smartly 👍 As u enter... To ur left wall u hv alexa... U cn play d song u love🙈🥰
Service was great and very quick ..... Rates are impressive for the quantity dey serve....its worth it .....dey have multiple options for everything available... Dats pretty impressive
Their burgers are really really good..... The bread is very soft ❤it kinda melts in d mouth..... The filling is very generous and tasty😋😋
Overall a great experience ❤👍 . Do visit here... N trst me dey won't disappoint u❤✨
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