Within months of opening, Chin Chin Labs become a Camden Market legend.
Instead, it’s dishing out excellent ice cream. Nutty the couple may be, mad they’re not.
Around 20 flavours are offered each day and, apart from a few classics such as pistachio ice-cream and strawberry sorbet, recipes tend to be sophisticated
Gelato, sorbet and granita are all made with a chef's sensibility of ingredient quality, seasonality and flavour, and the results are spectacular.
What amazing flavours in all their products; I do believe we will be regulars here
What I really enjoyed however, were the sorbets, the melon in particular tastes just like frozen cantaloupes, sweet, sugarly, stringly and fresh, just what one needs to cool off really
The wide variety of flavours, hot and cold sauces, fruit and chunky, crunchy bits is fun to choose from and, inevitably, a headily rich finish to a meal
But it's downhill from there: service on our visit, though well-meaning, was abominably slow and the product itself not good enough to forgive the wait.