PIN Mamasons

London's first (and second) Dirty Ice Cream Parlour

Europe’s first take on a Filipino staple, dirty ice cream, can be found in Kentish Town (there is also a branch in China Town) at Mamasons. If visitors are expected the bland, vanilla concoction beloved of tourists to London, they might well be disappointed, for it comes in some wonderfully colourful concoctions with plenty of Eastern influence. This ice cream parlour-with-a-difference opened in 2017, and London now has a matching pair - Camden and Chinatown. Mamason professes to want to serve up great ice-cream and create a cultural experience and recreate a traditional ‘street feel inspired by the dirty ice cream vendors on the streets of Manilla. The parlour, a stones-throw from Camden Town, is all served from a shop with plenty of rustic charm, and customers should prepare to be amazed.

Products like ‘bilog’- literally an icecream sandwich provide interesting variations. Bilog is a traditional milk bun, filled with ice-cream and sugar-coated. Visitors to Mamasons can expect eclectic ice-cream infused products using old staples like cheesecake, doughnuts, brownies.