The World's Most Luxurious Ice Cream

Ice cream has had some unexpected, fascinating and occasionally surprising incarnations on the menus of our top restaurants in the last few years, from Heston Blumenthal's (now well on it's way to legendary) smoked bacon and egg ice cream to some great Sam Mason inventions at WD50 to well, seemingly everywhere you look these days.

Heck, we've even given experimental ice cream our own go, whirling together five spice and date, white peach and butter fried rosemary and other, less successful combinations which we'll spare ourselves the indignity of sharing.

Our favorite of this ilk, however has always been Tetsuya's surprisingly wonderfully blue cheese ice cream with pear and Sauternes jelly. So when we were asked to create an award for the Independent Food Festival Awards our minds did a natural little wander towards this wonderful creation (though we weren't sure what we would call it).

Ramping up for our award and upon revisiting Tetsuya's though, we were at least slightly deflated to find that the it had gone from the menu (at least for the moment, we did manage to wiggle our way into a new panacotta version of the aforementioned dish, as consolation, but that is another story).

In it's place on Tet's always entertaining tastebud-rollercoaster was something very special, something so deliciously, perfectly, cleverly, and gently balanced and at the same time very luxurious.... And it is to this dish that we humbly bestow the award of the World's Most Luxurious Ice Cream.

White truffle ice cream with white bean and fig sets a new benchmark for soul-filling umami but also comes off the palette surprisingly light and refreshing. Naturally it's also luxurious (which in this sense is a nice word for decadent) in ingredient, fusing white truffle with thick cream and egg.

Sign us up for at least a tub.

Our thanks to Hillel from Taste Everything for the opportunity to present this award and for organizing the Annual Independent Food Festival Awards

Comments

[chika]

Hiya, oooo white truffle ice cream, that's too gorgeous! Although I do wish I could try the blue cheese ice cream with pear & Sauternes jelly, as well... :)

[Lisa Wang]

Who're you guys? What do you do? How did you guys become so rich to be able to dine at so many fancy dining places? i'm jealous!

[Sean]

Hi Lisa,
It's not about what we (or you) do, it's all about priorities :P