One of the best known ice creams in Paris is Berthillon. And, according to many residents, tour guides and guide books, it is the best ice cream in the city, if not the world. This is quite the statement to make, and it is obvious that people take it to heart because there are lines around the block for this ice cream shop. It is made at one small store on the Ile-St. Louis in the center of Paris, but is (luckily) available at just about every other shop on that island if you want to avoid the line. I’ve been told that it is not available anywhere else in the city. The flavors range from the basic to the inventive, change daily, and all of the ice creams and sorbets are made from scratch.
I opted for coconut and white chocolate (noix de coco et chocolate blanc), one scoop of each in a waffle cone. I don’t know if it’s the best in the city or elsewhere, but the ice cream was excellent and was served at the perfect temperature, where it was just soft all over. You could tell that it was fresh and had never seen a deep freeze. The coconut tasted like coconut macaroons, packed with bite of coconut, and the white chocolate tastes like a cold white chocolate truffle.
Berthillon Ice Cream
29-31 rue Saint Louis en l’ile
75004 Paris
Ciaochowlinda
May 23, 2009Yes, Berthillon is one of the best, but my heart is still with Italian gelato.
emily
May 23, 2009I think I need a trip back to Paris… it’s so nice to see a culinary tour through your eyes, because I definitely don’t mess around when it comes to top quality confections and I trust your impeccable taste.
Hannah
May 23, 2009Your killing me……..I love coconut!!!!!!!
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May 23, 2009My all-time favorite ice cream in the universe (I posted it as one of my faves, too).
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May 24, 2009A little plug here for Wisconsin frozen custard also made fresh every day, scooped from a bucket and mix-ins of the day added fresh in small batches to vanilla custard. If you are an ice cream fan and you’ve never had frozen custard, you haven’t lived! I mean flavors like choc eclair, fresh fruit of most any kind mixed in, caramel pecan, etc….endless fresh ingredient combinations.