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Wash them down with glasses of house wine if you can get to the bar. A Madrid institution.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12271 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12082
It serves some of the most flavoursome ice cream in the south west, made using the rich organic milk and cream of the farm’s Jersey herd. The onsite ice cream parlour offers 24 artisan flavours, such as gooseberry, trifle, boysenberry, passionfruit and Cornish clotted cream.

Visitors can watch the cows being milked from a viewing gallery on the farm in the late afternoon.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12082 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12081
Mirrored walls feature neon ice-cream cones and signs with the dubious advice: “Keep fit by eating ice cream every day.”

Patrons sit on red leather banquettes or on high stools at the half-moon, chrome-edged counter. Ice creams are mainly traditional – vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, banana, and lemon and blackcurrant sorbets – made from natural ingredients including Scottish seaweed instead of gelatine.

The café is a meeting place for everyone from local fishermen to playwright Alan Ayckbourne and Michael Winner, a big fan since filming scenes for A Chorus of Disapproval there.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12081 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12080
Ice creams are mostly traditional flavours – strawberry, pistachio, lemon, toffee crunch – and sundaes are simple but excellent standards, including peach melba, chocolate nut sundae, fruit sundae. The coffee is famous, but you can also live it up with a Bovril or a glass of sarsaparilla.

The location is superb: sit at a formica-topped table in the front and you can gaze over the whipped peaks of your sundae towards the shadowy hills of the Lake District.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12080 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12079
It feels as if Olivia Newton-John and John T. might come jiving in any minute for a hot fudge sundae. Sundaes are baroque affairs laden with wafers and fandangles, while cornets are available in over 30 flavours, including banana, mango, coconut Bounty and tiramisu. A Morelli’s counter in Harrods sells the ice cream for those who can’t manage the schlep to Kent.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12079 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11990 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11990 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11989 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11989 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11956 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11956 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11955
But you also get rare birdlife, fresh lobsters delivered by local fishermen and the kind of deep, utter peace you're hard pressed to get anywhere else in the UK.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11955 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11954 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11954 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5402 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5402 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5399 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5399 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5398 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5398