Sugar-high! That's how I felt when we went to Rita's in Greenhills. Because I love sweets and ice cream tops that list.

But ice cream is quite ordinary. What made us went far for a cup of happiness was the qualifier 'italian' in its collateral. Curiosity.

Rita's in Greenhills was just small. Red, white and green, it's a typical Western delight. Good thing the adjacent kiosk was their coffee shop and that's where we stayed. For in the main area, a queue can't be helped.

As a first-timer, tried the basic Gelati (Php 130- regular; Php 160- large). First step was to choose an ice and went for Raspberry. Second was the custard (or ice cream?) and though I thought it a weird combination, went for chocolate.

Trying it apart, the Raspberry ice was really good. All throughout, I can taste the flavor (comparing it to a fruit shake and after sipping using straw almost all, the remaining will almost be white and bland as ice). Then I tried the custard. The chocolate for me tasted like a snowpy ice cream. So I tried my friend's vanilla. It could have been a better fit for me. Combining them both wasn't that bad. I must say the flavor turned out unique.

Serving for a regular was enough so as not to have brain freeze.

Happy? Yes.

:3.5

Rita's Ice-Custard Happiness is located at:

Unit 115-116, V-Mall,

Greenhills Shopping Center, 

Greenhills, San Juan City

Website: http://www.ritasice.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ritas-Italian-Ice-The-Philippines/470399559676531

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Friday, June 12, 2015

There's a lot of ways to go sweet these days. Expensive cupcakes to mushrooming milkshakes, you choose, but there's nothing like the pure joy ice cream gives. Whether it'd be in a humongous tub or in an ice cream parlor, you'd always screaaaaam with it.

When it comes to these things, you'll enjoy choosing in Iceberg's wide array of sweet nothings (well aside from that there's more on their menu like...sisig! But let's be sweet first). From Filipino all-time favorite con hielo specials to french parfaits, super sundaes, milkshakes, banana-splits to godzilla/ king-kong appetites, a week's not enough to taste them all. 

So it started with...

 

German U-Boat Banana Split (Php 228). It has three scoops of varying ice cream flavors, whipped and sprinkled with marshmallows and chocolate-chip. On the sides are wafer sticks then topped by swet little cherry. Best of all, this german named sweetheart has an American flag :p. The serving's big it's good for sharing. It's yum but...

Strawberry Parfait (Php 188) ...I enjoyed this strawberry coolness much much. It has real fruit with syrup and three scoops of ice cream, whipped with cream and topped with a cherry. I'm a fan of chocolate but this is refreshingly sweet. 

Iceberg's Super Mais con Hielo (Php 108) is a three-thumbs up treat too. At this cheap, it's already offered with a scoop of ice cream. It's quite generous for sharing, too.

One good thing about Icebergs too is that its icecreams appear smaller than they are in real life. How cool is that? :)

  

Rating: 3.5

Icebergs has a branch in SM Mall of Asia

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Thursday, January 30, 2014