Eating ice cream in the cold was quite an experience. How can one not share delicious ice cream places? I still dream about Parisian strawberry sorbet - with real strawberries inside. A friend recommended me to try the famous Zanoni & Zanoni ice cream situated a stone throw from Stephanplatz. While looking for dinner on the same street, we chanced upon a tiny little shop with about 10 people in the queue. The queue was consistently long. On the way back from dinner at 9pm in the freezing cold, people were still queuing at the shop. Zanoni and Zanoni proved to be disappointing. When my travel mates headed back to Vienna on our last day of the trip, we hunted around for this shop.We were curious by the long queue.
I was blown away by the ice cream. The four of us stood outside the shop in the cold - this time less freezing; grinning from ear to ear while chomping the ice cream. Each one of us had two scoops - a sorbet plus a creamy one. I had topfencreme (Vanilla curd cream cheese) with strawberries, eric yoghurt with raspberry, the two other boys had cookies and cream with apricot. The sorbets were the best - full bodied and rich in flavour. Nicholas commented that his apricot sorbet tasted like the real fruit. It complemented his cookies and cream really well. And their cookies and cream were the best i have ever tasted - i dont dig cookies and cream at all but these were something else all together. Perhaps its due to the organic ingredients that they use, you dont get sick of their ice cream even after chomping down two scoops and a cone. On the contrary, I threw three quarters of my triple scoop Zanoni cone away.
I would recommend their topfencreme - its vanilla-ish with the slightest aftertaste of cream cheese, its neither heavy nor watered down, cookies and cream - its like no other, you have to try this for yourself, strawberry sorbet, raspberry sorbet - its sweeter than strawberry but not in the sickly way and lastly the apricot sorbet - its so unique and delicious, ask to try it first if apprehensive! A side note: One of their best selling is the truffle flavour - it tasted like watered down chocolate to me.
Nicholas said out loud to no particular person while we were still standing in the cold and savouring our ice cream, 'Thank you, this is really good.'
Eis Greissler
Rotenturmstrasse 14, Vienna 1010, Austria
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