To make the most of the last sunny days (yes, I’m crossing my fingers that summer lasts as long as possible like every year), now is the time to share my selection of great addresses in Paris to enjoy delicious ice creams during the summer season, but also for the rest of the year! No discrimination here, I’ve tested them for you (yes, yes, it was hard work, I admit!): ice creams, sorbets, popsicles, and other frozen or refreshing desserts.
In another article, I suggest my selection of the best Parisian ice cream parlors, but in this post, I invite you to discover all the spots (even those that aren’t strictly ice cream parlors) where you can enjoy a good ice cream in Paris during the summer.
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Ice creams from La Maison du Chocolat
As a chocolate addict, I am obviously a huge fan of this wonderful address specializing in chocolate. Like every year for the summer season, La Maison du Chocolat and its chef Nicolas Cloiseau offer us a selection of original frozen products.
New for 2021 (from May 3rd): The Frozen Popsicles imagined in collaboration with David Wesmaël, MOF ice cream maker, in 4 gourmet recipes (Pistachio/Blackcurrant; Vanilla/Mango; Raspberry/Passion Fruit; Chocolate/Hazelnut caramel).
La Maison du Chocolat
Several addresses in Paris
Price of frozen popsicles: €5.80 each_
Hoct & Loca
This address dedicated to fine chocolate is located just a stone’s throw from the Paris City Hall. For the summer, the establishment offers an original experience for eating ice cream a little differently: the dipped ice cream. You can customize your vanilla ice cream (only 1 flavor offered) covered in a chocolate coulis that you can choose from the boutique’s “chocolate bar” (6 chocolate varieties are offered). What’s fun is that you can taste them all before deciding! And the place offers a few different flavors according to the seasons, like the strawberry that was in the spotlight this summer, for example.
The inside of the ice cream is therefore always vanilla, because the idea and the originality of the place is to vary the ice cream with the different chocolates offered and not with the flavor of the ice cream.
My advice: I was totally a fan of the Hazelnut Chocolate 33, super indulgent with the vanilla ice cream, I find.
Hoct & Loca 99 Rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris Price of dipped ice creams: from €4.25 to €8
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Truffle Ice Cream at Maison de la Truffe
I already told you about this address specialized in Truffles in my Terraces article of this summer. But during my test there, I also had the opportunity to taste their delicious truffle vanilla ice cream and I must say that it is a real success! The balance of flavors is perfect and contrary to what one might think, it is completely addictive and not at all sickly! If you pass by the restaurant, I strongly advise you to take a small cone to go to discover it!
Maison de la Truffe 14, rue Marbeuf 75008 Paris Telephone: 01 53 57 41 00 On-site, vanilla and white truffle ice cream cone at €8
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Milkshakes at Jardins Renoir
The Café Renoir and its charming tea room set up every summer on the most famous hill of Paris, in the gardens of the Musée de Montmartre. It’s the perfect place to settle down in the heart of the capital and yet very far from the bustle of the city, within a little bubble of nature that does a lot of good. And since 2018, the Café Renoir has been offering Milkshakes made to order (strawberry, banana, vanilla, chocolate, coffee).
Café Renoir Entry into Jardins Renoir: €4 open every day from 12:15 PM to 6:00 PM Musée de Montmartre 12 rue Cortot 75018 Paris Milkshake price: €6.50
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Ice Creams from Hugo & Victor
This very beautiful address offers products made mainly with natural ingredients (even for the coloring) and I must say that we became very big fans of their cakes with my favorite photographer. During the summer period and until the end of September, the boutique also offers homemade ice creams to take away or to eat on-site (there are a few small tables set up in front of the boutique for sunny days). The ice creams are made without coloring, with very little stabilizer, and no chemical products.
To try: the mango with sweet spices flavor, which is to die for!
Hugo & Victor Boutique 40 Boulevard Raspail, 75007 Paris
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Ice Creams at Jean-Paul Hévin
During the summer, Jean-Paul Hévin offers a selection of frozen treats in some of his stores, frozen yogurts, but also the famous Exquis Momo.
- A delicious homemade frozen yogurt with various toppings of your choice: chocolate meringue, almond caramel, and raspberry.
- The Exquis Momo, the popsicle according to Jean-Paul Hévin, made in front of you with several flavors: Madagascar (vanilla ice cream with a dark Grand Cru chocolate coating from Madagascar); Caramel (caramel ice cream and milk chocolate coating); Exquis Momo Passion (yogurt ice cream and raspberry-passion fruit marbled coulis with pistachios); Cacao (cacao sorbet, dark Grand Cru chocolate coating from Ecuador).
Jean-Paul Hévin Ice Creams Exquis Momo tested in the Louvre boutique (10 rue Saint Honoré) Frozen Yogurt Price: €5 for 180g Offered only at the Chocolate Bar, 41 rue de Bretagne 75003 Paris / open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 AM to 7:30 PM
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And you, what are your good addresses for eating ice cream in Paris?
Photo credits: Mademoiselle Bon Plan and Nicolas Diolez Photos not royalty-free, authorization from the photographer mandatory before any use
