Coco ah ah: The 16 best ice cream parlors in the country

Summer has officially arrived, and although for us ice cream is eaten all year round, it's our time to pay homage to our favorite summer dessert.

From north to south, from boutiques to large chains, get the best ice cream parlors in Israel (which give not a bad fight at all to the Italians)

Julia Frilik Niv

24/06/2022

Friday, 24 June 2022, 11:50

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Otlo's ice creams (Photo: Ran Golani)

Summer is officially right here, and what's more summer than ice cream?

We can not think of a more successful pairing than high temperature and chilled ice cream.

We are talking about the real thing, quality ice cream, with a fridge full of flavors and textures, that refreshes the mouth halfway.

So what's new beyond glass in ice cream parlors?

Without spoilers it implies that the trend of sweet and salty is still with us, alongside ecological lines, local seasonal thinking and tension between healthy and corrupt.

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Boutique ice cream parlors

Alongside the large chains nationwide, boutique ice cream parlors have sprung up in recent years.

Some have a single branch, some have several branches.

Either way, they are characterized by frequent changes in flavors and non-standard combinations.

A kind of thinking outside the ice cream carton if you will.

Summer at Otello (Photo: Ran Golani)

Othello

When restaurateurs set up ice cream parlors this is usually a good sign to come.

The Otlo ice cream chain, which currently has six branches in the center (two of them new - in Givatayim and the Tel Aviv port), was established in 2017 inspired by ice cream and chocolatiers from Italy and France. To make the ice cream process and keep the ice cream soft and airy

. A chocolate waterfall, a chocolate display case with handmade chocolates in flavor combinations, etc. In some of the branches, ice cream machines are set up to allow a glimpse into the preparation process

Among other things, there is Jandoya here with hazelnut cream and chocolate chips;

Pistachio;

Blondie Pretzel;

Salted peanuts and chocolate;

Black Jamaican coconut;

And a variety of chocolate flavors.

There is also sorbet ice cream like mango, raspberry-lime, almond and chocolate, chocolate halva, lotus cream and more.

The ice cream is filled here in a circular motion, which of course adds chic to the whole thing.

Lemon and cardamom ice cream Barta (Photo: Daniela Contini)

Arta

Arta Ice Cream has only one branch, on Nahalat Binyamin Street in Tel Aviv, but the name of the ice cream parlor has spread far and wide as one that serves authentic and seasonal Italian ice cream.

Arte owners, Marco Camorelli and Sisi Pagan, are proud that they do not use food coloring and that the colors of the ice cream are the original colors of the raw materials.

They also boast that they do not use emulsifiers, so the ice cream is less inflated.

They also do not add industrial materials or flavors inspired by commercial brands.

For the hot season, Barta has launched a series of new flavors, and will join them later.

Among the flavors already available now in their showcase: Blue Velvet - Blueberry Sorbet with Violet Flower Extract;

Sicilian Spring - Almond and Lemon Sorbet;

Cherry cream and raisins with Pedro Ximenez cherries.

The new and seasonal flavors join classic flavors like tiramisu, coffee, pistachio, apple strudel and more.

There are also some intermittent surprises here like avocado cream ice cream, caramelized rose ice cream, Japanese tea ice cream and the like.

Pinoli's ice cream (Photo: Assaf Carla)

Finoli

The Italian name, Pinoli gelato, implies that it is ice cream from the land of the boot or rather Sicilian-style ice cream.

The boutique chain already has three branches and the emphasis is on expanding to areas of families such as Ramat Efal, the Or Yam neighborhood near Caesarea and Rishon Lezion, in addition to the branch in Dizengoff Tel Aviv and Kiryat Ono.

One of the partners in the network is tennis player Andy Ram and she is one of the newcomers in the arena, a total of about a year old.

The idea here is to emulate the Italian custom of eating ice cream throughout the year, regardless of the seasons.

A combination of Italy and Israel.

Acorn ice cream, lime and basil ice cream and halva ice cream are sold here, along with flavors such as pistachio, black vanilla, coconut, mango, mascarpone, berries and crumble, Belgian chocolate, peanut butter and jam, dark chocolate, Italian coffee, strawberries and a range of ice creams. Alcoholics with Bayliss, Ozo and Campari.

Boza Ice Cream (Photo: Haim Yosef)

Boza

Boza (ice cream in Arabic) entails, in addition to great ice cream, also a beautiful story of coexistence.

Boza began her journey in Maalot Tarshiha, but very quickly became an attraction for quite a few foodies, who were overjoyed when she made an ascent and landed on Hashmonaim Street in Tel Aviv.

Today, Boza also has branches at the Goma junction in the Hula Valley, as well as the factory store in Kibbutz Sasa, which also offers fun and delicious activities in the visitors' center.

Boza's ice cream is a fresh ice cream, which is made from the best raw materials, which are prepared daily in a meticulous process.

The ice creams here are less sweet, and there is plenty of room for the great ingredients to come into play.

The choice here is not easy, between the new summer flavors like mascarpone amerna, or Liali Beirut - great taste of semolina cake and whipped cream with rose water and pistachios, or black coffee and cardamom for lovers of the more bitter flavors, there are also flavors that have already become classics like chocolate boza cream And hazelnuts, a taste of brown butter, a huge selection of sorbets like raspberries, passion fruit, lemon mint and more.

Haifa Ice Ice Cream (Photo: Eran Gilwarg)

Eiselson

Haifa boutique ice cream managed to make a lot of noise.

At one time it even had a branch called Icefeld in Pardes Hanna-Karkur, but it has already closed.

The Haifa ice cream parlor is a kind of laboratory in everything related to quality local ice cream, or as they call it "ice cream in the production of confectionery from raw materials."

The basis is ecological and human thinking, for example making ice cream from seasonal and local ingredients, from local growers on farms near the ice cream parlor, taking care to reduce allergens, taking care of kosher keepers, reducing environmental pollution by moving to environmentally friendly packaging, and so on.

Not the ones that taste everywhere.

For example, you can taste combinations like ginger apple here;

White chocolate, caramel and banana;

Mint orange;

Peanut butter and strawberries;

Lemon basil;

cinnamon;

Pear bone;

Honey, ginger and lemon peel;

And even original inventions like lava, cumin and croutons in olive oil, orange avocado or gelato borax.

Yes, one with puff pastry, salted cheese and sesame.

But don’t worry there are also flavors like brownies, chocolate, pavlova and pistachio.

All based on the best raw materials of course but without the slightest hint of boredom in the mouth.

Stefan's ice cream (Photo: Anatoly Michaelo)

Staff

The Austrian Stefan Ice Cream, introduced the concept of "chef ice cream" into our lives and we received it with great love.

Stefan Macher left his native Austria and emigrated to Tel Aviv following love, but not before moving to Italy and fulfilling an old dream of learning the secrets of the Italian gelato and becoming a Glacier chef, a nickname for a chef whose specialty is ice cream.

Here in Tel Aviv Stefan mixes the specialty of Italian ice cream with his Austrian roots, which include the traditional desserts - apple strudel, walnut tarted with walnuts and twilight jam, and Zacher Torte - a rich Austrian chocolate cake.

Vanilla Butterfly (beautiful bluish vanilla ice cream, malabi, cookies, salted caramel, pineapple sorbet, brownie and more and more. The ice cream boxes that you order or take home come in a particularly photogenic way, arranged in balls-balls.

Networks

Ice cream is a basic consumer product and there should be an ice cream parlor in every mall - at least that's our belief.

The big chains probably feel the same way and they never stop setting up branches and hurting on almost every street corner and on every side road, this along with delivery services that were once more rare to find in the genre.

Here's what the big chains have to offer our palate:

Cranberry ice cream in a cold bucket (Photo: Cold bucket)

Cold bucket

The Cold Bucket chain, with a wide spread of branches around the country, has been producing quality ice creams made in blue and white for over 33 years.

Daly Krim, started as a family ice cream parlor, in 1989, with a small store in Rishon Lezion.

, Formerly called "Geletti 2000".

It was founded by Sami and Rina Ben Best, following Rina's childhood dream in post-war Poland, in the days when ice cream was considered a luxury, for her father to have an ice cream factory.

Today, as mentioned, Aquarius is already a successful chain, which has managed to maintain its charm and quality.

In the flavors section, alongside the classics you will find a variety of collaborations, and changing flavors, there is peanut snack flavored ice cream, salted caramel ice cream, white chocolate ice cream and berries, there are alcoholic ice creams like ouzo lemon peppermint, orange grapefruit campari, creamy Bayliss Irish, and more classics.

Pavlova ice cream in a reusable package of vanilla (Photo: Boaz Lavie)

Vanilla

The Vanilla ice cream chain, which has known ups and downs but is now active and stable again, has launched not only new flavors but also a new agenda for the summer.

The 21 branches of the chain decided to expand their activities in the ecological field.

The chain expands the range of products in the field of sustainability with some revolutionary products.

The first is a reusable package for reusing ice cream, instead of the disposable styrofoam packages (polystyrene foam) that are used by most ice cream parlors and are an environmental hazard.

The reusable package is a container that keeps cold for refilling ice cream in the chain's branches (it is paid but you get a discount every time you come with it).

The reusable case is broken down into three parts, with the inner part removable and dishwasher safe.

Another product is Less Mess - a durable cardboard disc that "dresses" on the ice cream cup and stops the drip, keeps clothes clean and reduces washes.

In the field of flavors, Vanilla has partnered with importer Wilifood to create an ice cream with the taste and texture of a real creme brulee called Give It.

The ice cream is based on a unique recipe used to make crembo of the same name, which Wilifood imports from Denmark.

The ice cream consists of fresh cream and milk, biscuits, crembo units give it wholeness and dark chocolate sauce.

The taste is actually developed for summer, so we all miss the crembo associated with winter, and it is now marketed in a limited edition.

Other flavors prepared for the summer are yogurt-based Mae Zaher yogurt ice cream, pistachios, apricot and citrus water;

Airy pavlova ice cream with meringue chips and berries;

Grapefruit sorbet and campari;

Marshmallow ice cream;

Strawberry cream and more.

Legenda's ice creams (Photo: Yaara Gidron)

To Jenda

The ice cream chain, which has more than 20 branches throughout the country, advocates a rapid change of flavors.

Legenda's agenda is to produce and sell fresh ice cream in all branches on a daily basis, with a variety of flavors according to the season, to the taste of the audience in the same branch, in response to the holidays (on Passover, for example, ice cream with matzah crumbs was sold. Ice cream exhibitions abroad (yes, there is such a thing) and more. In all the branches at any given moment there are more than 70 flavors, made according to the traditional recipes for Italian gelato, many of them according to the fruits of the season.

Some of the raw materials are imported from Italy, for example hazelnuts from Piedmont, truffles and more.

Popular flavors available online include Bueno Bianco, cookie cream, salted caramel, Belgian chocolate, pistachio, pancake toffee, Irish coffee and more.

Towards the summer, there will be additional new flavors, some of which can already be tasted, for example poppy - a biscotti-flavored ice cream with poppy seed filling;

Orange Chocolate - Vegan ice cream based on pea protein with orange chocolate and freshly squeezed orange juice;

Mascarpone Nutcola - Mascarpone cheese ice cream coated in hazelnut cream;

Apropo ice cream;

Banana Brula - vegan ice cream based on pea protein with a combination of fresh bananas in a caramelized sugar coating;

Cheese crumbs;

popcorn;

Hershey and even stone-inspired ice cream.

Aldo's ice cream (Photo: Eitan Dor)

Aldo

The Aldo ice cream chain, which has 24 branches, is currently launching refreshing summer flavors such as bitter chocolate sorbet, pistachio magnum, gum-flavored unicorn ice cream (especially for children) and salted caramel ice cream with brownies.

All the ice creams are made from natural Italian purees and without preservatives, the chain explains, and they are imported to Israel from leading factories in Italy.

The ice creams are produced in each branch every day so that there is a variety of more than 70 regular and changing flavors on the menu.

Of all the chains and ice cream parlors, Baldo emphasizes the low percentage of fat in their ice creams: between 6% and 8% in regular ice creams (about 190 calories per 100 grams), and 0% fat in sorbet-style ice creams (about 90 calories per 100 grams). gram).

Also, all sorbet flavors contain 50% natural fruit and 0% fat.

Milkshake in a Nutella Jar in Yami Yami (Photo: Yulia Frilik Niv)

Yum Yum

The Yami Yami chain started in Eilat, just a short distance from the beach and the bustling tourist area.

And if there is a destination where it is always summer - it is Eilat so it is requested that there be a good ice cream parlor there.

Since then, the chain has expanded to three more branches, one more in the southern city, a branch in Ramat Hasharon and a branch in Kiryat Shmona.

The chain has a huge variety of spoiled desserts based on ice cream or those served alongside ice cream.

One of the original inventions is a Nutella milkshake served in a Nutella jar.

But there is also a refreshing summer line for those who like less heavy ice creams and less spoiled desserts: Thai ice cream.

The chain prepares light ice cream with refreshing flavors for customers' eyes after ordering.

In the summer you can order Thai ice cream in flavors like mango, strawberry, pineapple, berries and the like and get it rolled.

Almond and honey ice cream in Andrei (Photo: Eyal Keren)

Andrew

Andrei Ice Cream, which began at the mythical Jaffa branch, has three more branches today - in Ramat Gan, Ramla and Rishon Lezion.

Towards the summer, several flavors were brewed online, which will join those that already exist.

Among the refreshing flavors: Tartufo Ice Cream - airy chocolate ice cream based on Nutella chocolate with nuts and crunch chocolate;

Upgraded almond and honey ice cream - refined honey ice cream with candied almond sauce and cinnamon sauce;

Salty pretzel ice cream - ice cream that combines the sophisticated taste of sweet and salty, caramel ice cream with salty touches.

And a word about the price, while in most ice cream parlors a kilogram of ice cream will cost more than NIS 100, Andrei maintains a very modest price of NIS 68 per kilogram of ice cream and it is definitely no less sweet than ice cream.

Cold cookies, upgraded cookies (Photo: PR)

Cold cookies

The Koki Krim chain currently has three branches - in Jerusalem, Holon and Modi'in - and combines two great loves: ice cream and cookies.

The first branch opened in 2016 at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem and is the chain's main branch.

The concept is a combination of ice creams and cookies both in the same product for example as a cuckoo and side by side.

The ice creams are fresh cream ice creams that are probably served cold alongside hot cookies.

There is also a solution for those who avoid milk and prefer ice cream and vegan cookies, without gluten, fur, protein ice creams and more.

The company's two flagship products are also updated for the upcoming season: Amsterdam cookies and ice cream and pizza cookies.

Yes, it's just as corrupt as it sounds.

Tropical-flavored ice cream in Golda (Photo: Liel Sand)

Golda

In the Golda chain, (which is not really necessary to present, right?) Are renewed towards the summer with refreshing fruit flavors, along with cream ice creams that always have a place of honor in all the showcases in the branches.

There is always a sorbet with fruit flavors (vegan) and they vary according to the seasonality of the fruit.

The network says that about 50% of the sorbet is made from fresh fruit.

Towards the summer of 2022, Golda serves three light summer flavors: limoncello - lemon-flavored ice cream with mint;

Tropical - a combination of pineapple, mango and passion fruit;

Watermelon mint.

In addition, almost all year round there are flavors such as banana, date, coconut, strawberry, berries, pineapple and mango that complement the new flavors for fans of the genre.

Ice cream with milk from the dairy and dates from the orchards of Kibbutz Yotvata (Photo: Liran Yochai)

Yotvata Inn

אחת הנקודות הכי דרומיות בארץ, בקיבוץ יטבתה שכנראה מזוהה יותר מכל עם הרפת ותעשיית החלב, פועלת גם גלידריה. בכל זאת, צריך לעשות משהו עם כל החלב והשמנת שמפיקים ברפת הענקית, ופה מתגאים במיוחד שהם יודעים מאיפה מגיע החלב ומה עבר עליו.

הצוות היצירתי בגלידריה בפונדק שמעבר לכביש הערבה רוקח מגוון טעמים לא שגרתיים, לצד הטעמים הקלאסיים שתמיד יש. כעת מככבת בפונדק גלידת יוגורט תמרים - גלידה בסגנון ג'לטו איטלקי עם תמרים מקומיים המגיעים ישירות מהמטעים של הקיבוץ. חוץ ממנה יש בכל רגע נתון כ-30 טעמים של גלידה שמיוצרת במקום מידי בוקר (מתוך ארסנל של כ-100 טעמים שונים). בין היתר אפשר למצוא כאן טעמים כמו דרום אמריקה - גלידת שוקולד עם ריבת חלב ושוקולד לבן; קפה ברזיל - גלידת שוקולד וקפה עם ריבת חלב; לילות בירות; בנופי פאי; גלידת מלבי ועוד.

לאתר של פונדק יטבתה

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גלידריה שהיא גם מסעדה איטלקית עם פיצות, פסטות, סלטים ועוד מציעה שלל קינוחים איטלקיים וג'לטו איטלקי טרי. לרגל הקיץ מציעים באמיליה טעם חדש ומקורי - סורבה אננס-אבטיח עם גבינה בולגרית. במקום יש גם מכונה עם גלידת יוגורט וקינוחים כמו עוגות, עוגיות, קרפים, ופל בלגי ועוד. עם גלידה כמובן.

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גלידה של מקדונלד'ס

לא, הכוונה היא לא לגלידה המפורסמת שהחלה כגלידה ב-1.90 שקלים (וכעת עולה ארבעה שקלים), אלא לרשת נפרדת מרשת האם. מקדונלד'ס, שהיא תכלס רשת המסעדות הגדולה בישראל, פתחה השנה רשת גלידריות חדשה תחת השם מק גלידה.

ברשת מציעים את הגלידה הפופולרית של מקדונלד'ס אך במגוון רחב של טעמים, בהם קרם ברולה, בייגלה, אוראו, פיסטוק ועוד, וכן בשילוב תוספות מיוחדות. הגלידות ברשת הבת מוגשות בוופל, בכוס המוכרת של מק פיצוץ ובאריזת פארטי משפחתית שאפשר לקחת הביתה. לצד הגלידות, נמכרים ברשת מגוון דונאטס בטעמים עם שלל מילויים וטופינג למשל דונאט עם קרם אגוזים נוגט, דונאט פיות בטעם תות, דונאט אוראו, דונאט מילקה, דונאט טריפל שוקולד, דונאט תות ודונאט בציפוי שוקולד זברה. אפשר להזמין דונאטס עם גלידה מעל ותוספת לבחירה כמו פיסטוק מסוכר, מיקס יער שחור, סוכריות חומות, קריספי וופל, סוכריות צבעוניות, אוראו או גרנולה.

The Mac Ice Cream chain currently has nine branches throughout the country (Tel Aviv, Rehovot, Haifa, Herzliya, Rishon Lezion, Eilat and more).

Some branches offer deliveries and from all of them you can place an order for self-collection through the website or the McDonald's app.

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