Experimental Ice Cream Shop Reopens Long Island City Pop-Up

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — A Manhattan-based ice cream shop known for experimental flavors reopened its Long Island City pop-up location.

Ice & Vice returned to 27-20 Jackson Avenue on Monday for its second summer in Long Island City, offering eight flavors of handcrafted ice cream and ice cream sandwiches and pies. The pop-up location, which celebrates its grand opening Friday, will be open through this fall.

The avant-garde scoop shop specializes in unique flavors like "Opium Den" — white sesame, toasted poppy seed and lemon-bread crouton — and "9AM," made with Vietnamese coffee and donut crumbs. Ice cream cones come in four varieties, like a bright pink french vanilla and a navy-hued salted blue corn honey cone.

Ice & Vice debuted in 2013 at LIC Flea & Food and has since won acclaim from Time Out, CNN Travel, the Food Network, Thrillist and Grub Street. In 2015, it opened its first brick-and-mortar location at 221 East Broadway on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

The Long Island City pop-up features two limited-edition seasonal flavors: "Bath Salts," which has lavender and pine-stracciatella, and "Amaretto Sour," inspired by the classic cocktail. A single scoop costs $5, and pints are available for $12.

Employee Alexandra Simon, 21, who also worked at last summer's Long Island City pop-up, said her favorite flavor is "Tea Dance," which has nilgri black tea leaf and lemon charcoal caramel.

"I like how unique the flavors are," Simon said. "They're always working on something new."

Ice & Vice, located at 27-20 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day starting April 19.

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ANNOUNCEMENT Spillin' the Tea (Dance)... We're coming home Queens. Popping back up in LIC (27-20 Jackson Ave.) for the Summer. Going soft 04.15.19. Going hard 04.19.19. Sign up for our newsletter for grand opening specials (link in bio☝️). #iceandvice
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