“Is it
even edible?” asked my friend, looking sceptically at our saffron
ice cream. “Not only edible, but also very nice,” I replied.
“Though it would be even better combined with another, more
distinctive flavour.”
We were
sitting on my favourite stone bench in Plac Szczepański in Kraków,
contemplating the summer dusk falling over the city. The splash of
multicolour streams of water from the magic fountain mingled with a
lively hubbub of voices from the nearby beer gardens. My best friend
EB was sitting next to me, eating pensively her Persian saffron and
Persian rose ice cream.
A few days
earlier I'd discovered the source of all these Persian delicacies: an
inconspicuous-looking ice parlour called Tiffany. We were served by
the friendly owner, who imports some of the ice cream
ingredients, including saffron, roses, pistachios and cardamom, from his native Iran. The ice cream is prepared only from fresh, natural
products and it actually shows - while eating the
refreshing mango-flavoured ice cream (which, fortunately, had nothing
in common with the disgusting artificial flavouring found e.g. in
yoghurt), I could even feel the texture of a fresh mango.
One scoop
costs PLN 3 or 4 (depending on the flavour) but it's really huge.
Friendly staff, delicious, natural ice cream and unusual flavours are a great reason to visit the ice cream parlour again and again. The
only minus is the name, which doesn't really try to evoke the spirit of the Middle
East, and the shoddy interior design. Luckily, you can always follow
our suit and sit outside on the nearby bench, from where you can
admire Plac Szczepański with its quaint art-nouveau buildings
and the magic fountain.
Here you can read more about my favourite ice cream parlours in Kraków.
Address: 7 Plac Szczepański, Cracow (Old Town)
Website: link
