Photo, New York Times.
I haven’t made it there myself, but the new Blue Marble at 196 Court Street has gained the attention of the New York Times’ Florence Fabricant, both here and here. The price is right ($3.89 for a regular serving, $2.90 for a mini), and the pictures look scrumptious.
Creamy, crenelated pinnacles in bright vanilla, deep chocolate or a swirl of both, are lower in butterfat than the shop’s regular ice cream (10 percent compared to 16 percent), so they can be churned out of the machine. The ice cream is eggless but has some organic soy lecithin as a stabilizer. Chocolate nibs from Nunu in Brooklyn are an optional topping.
I have, actually – I was customer #16 on opening day, and I had the selfsame swirl pictured above.
Unlike my partner, I do not get especially excited about ice cream. I like it as much as anyone, but I have nothing like her finely honed appreciation for a good scoop – it all tastes more or less on par with a quality grocery store pint to me. Blue Marble is the first and only place I have experienced ice cream transcendence, reaching a higher plane of taste when biting into not one but most all of their ice cream flavors. I am an inveterate supporter.
That said: I’m back to my ho-hum self about the soft serve. The chocolate had a more pronounced and inviting pudding sort of flavor than most soft serve, but I found the vanilla lackluster. I hate to go on record with anything less than a rave about Blue Marble, but I guess I do so as to say: just spend the money on a scoop. It’s a whole other animal, of course, but I I’ll definitely stick with the Mister Softee capital-E Experience when I want soft serve.
yeesh…. am i the only one that thinks that is expensive for ice cream???
I was believing Steve’s assessment of the soft serve until I got the the Mister Softee reference. That stuff isn’t even food!
I haven’t had the soft serve at Blue Marble yet, but I love their hard ice cream. Am willing to bet the soft serve can at least out do Mister Softee!
Had a mini twist soft serve today and it was delightful. I’ll be posting about it tomorrow. My favorite is still their plain frozen yogurt and regular ice-cream though.
WE NEED CULTURE! CULTURE! CULTURE! CULTURE! MAKE IT HAPPEN, BLUE MARBLE! SIGNED, THE SECRET SQUIRREL OF COBBLE HILL
@atlantica: Hey, I did qualify it! Mister Softee isn’t food, but it is its own complete truck-pastedsigns-orderthroughwindow-payfivequarters-findabench Experience, and more in line with how I conceive of soft serve, at least until Blue Marble soft serve starts knocking my socks off.
When I want to eat well (well, as much as ice cream allows), and feel a different sort of thrill than ordering out of a truck, I’ll get Blue Marble scoops. Which will be frequently. Anyway, defending my judgment!
CUUUUUUUUUUULTURE! CULLLLLLLLLTURE! WE WANT IT> WE NEEED ITT
Cu-llllll—–ture! CUllllllltureee!! culture! C’MON BLUE MARBLE DONT BE STINGY. COURT STREET needs CULLLLTuRE FLAVOOR!!!
cul-cha!!!!!!
it is sooo worth the D i got…..
culture. please.
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squirrel, did you run out of your ADHD medication? dimbulb.
No i ran out of CULTURE!
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The world’s best ICE CREAM!
Why don’t you keep your unkind insults to yourself
What do you think this is, the internet?
squirrel, i bet you pee sitting down