The Hop Ice Cream
Café
is an Asheville institution. Founded in 1978 it has now two locations – The Hope
West opened in 2010 at 721 Haywood Rd in
Asheville (T: 828-252-5155) – where it serves “Dairy, Vegan, Sugar Free, Gluten
Free, Local Goat Milk Ice Cream & Sorbet Flavors”. All ice creams are home
made and several have original bit hippy-esque names. That said, most seems to
be fairly similar, i.e. creamy and sweet and with some kind of chocolate
flavor.
We share a Brownie Sunday ($6.50): a warm brownie (from City Bakery
downtown), two scoops of salty caramel ice cream, homemade hot fudge, whip cream,
peanuts, cherry on top. The browny is a bit chewy and crunchy, the ice cream sweet
but tasty. Overall mainly a binge. I also get a milkshake of the Vegan
Chocolate Banana Cream, though made with real milk ($5): 20 oz., bit odd taste,
though fresh and not too heavy.
VERDICT: 80/100
Nice independent ice cream shop, but not very remarkable creamy ice
cream.
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