Savory ice cream at Scoop - Covent Garden
Scoop Gelato just round the corner from Covent Garden tube station have got a really good reputation for fantasic authentic Italian gelato and I noticed on their website a while ago that today was a special 'savory' day, so I moseyed along to take a look.
Goig in with the intention of trying the savories, I must admit that at this point my sweet tooth faught and completely battered my savory side, so five minutes later, I came out with a cone with pistachio, panna cotta, amaretto and dark chocolate for the bargainous price of £4, which were all divine - the dark chocolate one being almost like an ice cream version of mousse au chocolat.
At that point, I must admit, I was already really rather full, however, not wanting to fail my mission, I wandered back in, examining the savory menu. I must admit the 'Kiwi and Prawns' really didn't sound appealing at all, but the rest were all interesting. Going for the Honey cream and pecorino, it was actually very nice and the savory nature of the cheese going well with the melon. Rather than 'shavings' they were more like chunks, which actually meant that you didn't get cheese in every bite - maybe shavings mixed in with the ice cream would have been better. For the final round, I went with the Plum cream and crispy bacon, but this worked less well, although the ice cream itself was delicious.
Plum cream and crispy bacon sprinklers
The various salami, bacon, cheese and prawn accompaniments
The manager was extremely chatty and it came over really clearly that he was passionate about what he does and that he wanted to do it really well - certainly I've never had such good quality Gelato outside of Rome, and it's certainly well worth a visit. They also do specially wrapped tubs of ice cream that will apparently get home without melting - cheaper and much much nicer than Haagen Das. Anyway, after all of this, I left, feeling a little sick at eating so much so quickly and did a couple of very slow laps of Covent Garden.
