Streetlevel: Blue Marble Expanding to Court Street
Good news for Cobble Hill sweet tooths! Blue Marble will be opening its third retail location at 196 Court Street at Wyckoff. The big news is that, in addition to its trademark small-batch, grass-fed ice cream which it makes upstate, Blue Marble will be introducing a new line of soft serve ice cream when the…
Good news for Cobble Hill sweet tooths! Blue Marble will be opening its third retail location at 196 Court Street at Wyckoff. The big news is that, in addition to its trademark small-batch, grass-fed ice cream which it makes upstate, Blue Marble will be introducing a new line of soft serve ice cream when the new location opens on February 14th. (The company currently has two other stores in Brooklyn and is in the process of opening non-profit store in Rwanda.) You’ll also be able to pick up Nunu Chocolates and Nunu-based hot chocolate at the new location. Sweet. Check out an interior photo, complete with a Taylor Company soft serve machine, on the jump. GMAP
*rob* can you find the russian and report back?
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the BEST soft serve ice cream truck is a russian or ukranian woman in soho. she is usually on broome, prince or spring near broadway. the ice cream is crazy good.
ive been working on broadway and spring for almost 10 years now. what place are you talking about?!? i can honestly say ive never seen an ice cream truck around here other than mr. softee in the summer… ill have to look around!!
*rob*
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But I mean who eat ice cream everyday?
i dont know, but it seems like there’s a whole bunch of them in the OT!
*rob*
Based on these comments you have wonder how all those gentrified buyers at the Rwanda store. This store has been a great addition to Boerum Hill. Nice owners. Nice place. Great product. As regards price, if you go to Baskin & Robbins and order a cup of ice cream you get to pay for a huge portion of mediocre ice cream. If you go to Blue Marble, you can order exactly what you want. Number of scoops and size of scoops.
ROB-
the BEST soft serve ice cream truck is a russian or ukranian woman in soho. she is usually on broome, prince or spring near broadway. the ice cream is crazy good.
Food on wheels is gross to me (i.e. street meat). That would be the ickfest part. Therefore, I do not like the “chase”…chasing my food is not fun.
of course an ice cream shop will thrive in a gentrified neighborhood. the yuppies can fork out $5 for 1 smalll scoop of their all natural ice cream. yay!
Picklepuss I believe was also one of carvel’s characters 🙂 *rob*
The berry ice creams I believe are what Blue Marble does best. Blueberry being my fave. They make this frozen yogurt flavour that is very tart but tasty that I used to feed to the beagle. Does anyone know where upstate they make their ice cream- I would like to stalk?
Carvel ice cream cakes are not as good as the Dairy Queen, Friendly or Baskin Robbins cakes they were just better marketers with Cookie Puss and Fudgie the Whale which by the way were all made from the same mold form.
Small batch ice cream is the way it used to be always made – there were places where I grew up where this is was the norm and they were beat out by places like Carvel and are no longer around.
Lots of cows are grass fed – the Stony Field brand is – it does taste better, just as it does for cheese.
Blue marble I don’t find that expensive; you can pick your size and they have these smaller scoops which have inevitably less calories not to mention cost less.
But I mean who eat ice cream everyday?
I am excited about the soft serve. And I am excited to say soft serve too!