We decided to check out Centre City Shopping Mall for a quick detour and spotted Lush Cafe and…read moreGelato while we were walking around inside. Hello second dessert spot. We dropped in on a Friday afternoon (around 3:00pm). Most customers were ordering either coffee or gelato. They use Ozone Coffee Roasters as their bean supplier. The interior has one of those hipster neon signs and incandescent light bulbs to match. The main display case is filled with sandwiches, toasties, salads, lasagna, penne pasta and pastries. There's also a gelato case that has 9 homemade flavours to choose from. Love the self serve water dispenser that was filled with lemon and mint leaves. There's two menus up on the wall. Gelato, milkshakes, juices and alcohol round up the dessert and drinks. For food, there's breakfast/brunch options, burgers, sandwiches and salads. - Affogato ($5.00 NZD) - this was advertised on their sign outside which caught my eye. The espresso was nice and creamy. The scoop of vanilla bean ice cream was perfect. I don't drink coffee but I liked the affogato. Worth trying out their gelato.

We love the style in this place, the food is yummy and our favourite filling is salmon, and the…read moredouble omelette is the best in town. The food is creative and colorful. The staff have happy smiles and the service is great with small waiting times. We like the location and enjoy the experience of coming here.

This ice cream was amazingly good. The shop itself was adorable. Cute pink walls. The service was…read moreexcellent. We weren't sure about what we wanted, so they let us taste test as many flavors as we wanted. Super nice and good service. Wish I could get this in the United States.

There's not any way around the fact that Duck Island is excellent! It's easily better than many…read moreindependent ice cream establishments I've been to in the US and overseas. What sets Duck Island apart from its competitors in New Zealand is its selection and range of ice cream. Not only does it have many varieties of ice cream but it has a range of options for the more discerning palate, gluten free, sugar free, vegan, etc. This also implies that Duck Island really does care for its customer! There's no doubt that they do. Employees take great care to ensure that customers are treated well and that the establishment is spotless. It's likely the cleanest ice cream parlour I've been to in my life.

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We had a craving for ice cream after dinner so we walked over to Eat Street and visited Lady Jane…read moreIce Cream Parlor. They had quite a large selection of flavors and allowed us to sample a couple before we finally made our choice. There were different price points depending on if you got the regular ice cream versus the Kapiti premium one. They do allow you to mix and match and they will update the price based on the scoop. We opted for a three scoop paper tray since it was easier to share versus cones. The affogato (swirled expresso and vanilla) had a nice coffee flavor while the fig and manuka honey was our favorite. It also was our first time trying manuka honey and it was a delicious scoop with tiny bits of fig.

Really creamy ice cream. I ordered coffee ice cream on a Danish waffle cone with fresh whipped…read morecream, hot fudge, and chocolate sprinkles. Great location on Eat Street!

If you like ice cream, there is only one place to come in Raglan, and it's here. Beware though the…read morequeue is often outside the door and even snaked down the street a wee bit. The question is was it worth it, from the sample I had, yes I really enjoyed it, and wanted to go back again and again to try their other offerings.

Your guy stopped here to try the Hokey Pokey ice cream. I went to the ladies room down the street…read morefirst and upon return there was a line. The line went fairly quick and got two kid size scoops - one Hokey Pokey and the other passion fruit. Both were tasty and the passion fruit was my favorite.

As the Yelp Duke of this establishment it saddens me to say, this is one establishment to avoid…read more One mustn't stay loyal when ice cream quality has been compromised in favour of turning more profit. I've been to this establishment quite a few times over the years. The earliest was when I'd first learnt to drive in the early 90's. Back then, their ice cream brands were Tip Top and New American. State Highway 1 used to run straight through the middle of Pokeno, making it an obligatory stop for me. Since the re-routing of State Highway 1, the Pokeno township is now bypassed by most drivers travelling north and south. Despite the re-routing of SH1 the Pokeno Takeaway is much busier with customers now than it was when SH1 passed through the town. On a week day, lunch time is moderate to busy. On Friday it's busier and on Saturday and Sunday it's absolutely carazy! Having said that, I popped in today and noticed that nearly all of their ice cream is the Much Moore brand which I would class as a cheap value brand. I don't like Much Moore ice cream and I wouldn't serve it to international guests. Perhaps this takeaway is maximising its profit. Their large volume of customers mean that they should be smashing sales enough to have stayed with the Tip Top and Streets ice cream brands which they used to stock. To test my theory, I bought a four scoop ice cream on a double cone of the Much Moore flavours. The Much Moore ice cream has undissolved sugar crystals in their flavours which detracts from the taste. Their lemon cheesecake flavour doesn't freeze as well as their other flavours and doesn't support scoops in a multi scoop cone. Best to have it as the top scoop and consume first as it melts with alacrity. I'd avoid the mint choc cookie chip as well as the marshmallow coconut ice creams. Pineapple choc chunk was disappointing. TBH, for the same price, you could go next door to Johnson's Takeaway and get their Tip Top and Streets equivalents which are "Much Moore" value for money and superior in quality. After eating my disappointing four Much Moore scoops, I went next door to Johnson's and bought a two scoop. One of Coconut Marshmallow ice cream and the second scoop was lime swirl. I wasn't disappointed as they were smooth, creamy and the flavours tasted as they should in a well made ice cream. Thanks Tip Top. My advice is to go to Johnson's on the corner and get their Tip Top or Streets flavours. They cost the same but taste soooooo much better. Quality in the same quantity. Plus, they have shorter lines as most ice cream buyers go to Pokeno Takeaways. Side note: As a young kiwi, I ate way too much ice cream. Tip Top at the time made the quintessential kiwi ice cream flavours while New American made the kiwi flavours as well as ice cream flavours which diverged from the typical kiwi taste. My favourites at that time were New American's goody goody gum drops and coconut and marshmallow ice cream. In 1996 Tip Top, New Zealand's largest ice cream maker, bought New American. As a traveller to the United States and living in the United Kingdom, I ate my way through copious amounts of Baskin-Robbins and Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Since being back in New Zealand I've eaten far too much Mövenpick, Killinchy Gold and Kapiti Ice Cream. The Killinchy Gold ice cream brand being my most favourite ice cream brand in the whole wide world! If I had a dollar for every ice cream scoop I've ever had...