New York Street Food

It’s that time of year again – Häagen-Dazs is doing its Free Cone Day promotion.

There are 9 locations in Manhattan and many more in the tri-state area.  In fact, this is a nationwide promotion, so chances are there is a location near you.

The promotion is from 4-8pm today at participating locations.

Since you and everyone else in the free world will line up for a free cone, our standard caution applies – get there early!

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See below for UPDATE.

We don’t usually post on weekends, but this is special!

Last year at Taste of the Parks, our friends at Kelvin Slush told us about a new cart they won a bid for with the NYC Parks Dept.  We were even more excited than usual because the park they were coming to was in our neighborhood!

Today we were out running errands and ran across the new Kelvin Slush cart in the Little Red Park on the corner of Bleecker St & 6th Ave!  It has all the same great menu items that helped them win the 2010 Vendy Award for Best Dessert.

Now you know where to get a Kelvin Slush without having to worry about where the truck is.  Once the new cart is up and running, they expect it to be open from 12-9pm seven days a week.  Lots of train come into the West 4th St Station, and Kelvin is only a couple of blocks away.

For our inaugural slush from Kelvin’s Ice Cube, we had our new friend Josh make a ginger base with raspberry mixed in. What an amazing combination!

UPDATE 5/6/12 – The Ice Cube will not be out for a few days so they can tweak some things on the cart.  We will let you know when it returns.

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Wooly's Ice wins Best Dessert (credit: NYSF)

Update - Just heard from Danny, and they hit a snag with their opening.  They will be back out very soon, and we will keep you updated on exactly when.

Last year’s Vendy Award Winner for Best Dessert, Wooly’s Ice, will be coming out of hibernation and kicking off their season on Tuesday, May 1st.

Danny (middle of photo) from Wooly’s Ice told us about some changes in store for this season, including their location and a new menu item.

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The creative alchemists at Coolhaus have come up with a way to make fried chicken & waffle ice cream – and you can too.

Just check out the short video below for instructions on how to make fried chicken and waffle ice cream.  Make sure you have a pen and paper handy and know where the pause button is, because it goes by pretty quick.

Now if I can only get some of that pharmaceutical grade sage!

Friday the 13th. Must be your lucky day, because you can score some FREE ice cream from the ‘wichcraft kiosk in Bryant Park.

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