The Big Gay Ice Cream Shop in the East Village, NYC, New York

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It's been a while since we wanted to try the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop: we heard about it so much and saw it few times on some of the TV shows we follow. It all started with a truck in 2009 and two years later, they opened this location in the East Village.
image of The Big Gay Ice Cream Shop in the East Village, NYC, New York

And trust me: it was crowded! To a point that the person you see on the photo, who made us laugh a lot, was directing traffic into the store.
image of The Big Gay Ice Cream Shop in the East Village, NYC, New York

It is a very small place with a passion from unicorns apparently...
image of unicorn at The Big Gay Ice Cream Shop in the East Village, NYC, New York

Yes, unicorns everywhere!
image of unicorn at The Big Gay Ice Cream Shop in the East Village, NYC, New York

There, you will not find your regular ice cream: it is not Mr Softee! They use ingredients like sea salt, dulce de leche, vanilla wafers, key lime curd...

On my side, I decided to order the Monday Sundae:


image of Monday Sundae at The Big Gay Ice Cream Shop in the East Village, NYC, New York

It was made of twist ice cream, dulce de leche, sea salt and whipped cream. The best part was the cone that was lined with Nutella! Yes, Nutella, one of my favorite spreads! And they put a nice quantity of it! It was a bit sweet, but I loved the sweet and salty taste.

Jodi went for the Salty Pimp:

image of Salty Pimp at The Big Gay Ice Cream Shop in the East Village, NYC, New York

It was made of vanilla ice cream, dulce de leche, sea salt and dipped in milk chocolate, that created a delicious coating.

These ice cream were decadent and fantastic! I also liked the ice cream holder that allowed not to have ice cream dripping on our hands. I will definitely go back!!!

Enjoy (I did)!

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