Melbourne’s BEST Ice Cream & Frozen Treat Spots

“Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.”
Don Kardong

I’m not going to go into a long winded story about ice-cream and how much my kids love it. It’s ICE-CREAM! Of course they love it. So with their passion in mind I created this cracking list of Melbourne's best places to get Ice Cream and Frozen Treats with the wee ones in tow. I’m not going to say enjoy – cos l know you will.


Jock's Ice Cream
83 Victoria Ave, Albert Park
Walking distance to Gasworks Park and the Beach Jock's also serve up Kid's Ice Cream Cones with loads of award winning lush flavours to choose from.

Gelobar
74 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
Gelobar serve up $3 Baby Cones for the kids and also have a fancy new family friendly café opening next-door early 2013. The Coconut gelato is my favourite. Just saying.

Passionflower
Shop 2, 168 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Serves a variety of Asian exotic ice-creams and desserts. They are located a few blocks walk from the Myer Christmas windows

Casa Del Gelato
163 Lygon Street, Carlton
Choose all the colours from the rainbow at this busy ice-cream bar, they also have a large park next door with lush grass and shady trees. Tis’ the perfect spot to spend a sunny afternoon.

Fritz Gelato
Richmond – South Melbourne – St Kilda – South Yarra – Queenscliff – Lorne
Serves up organic ice-cream and gelato. They have loads of locations to choose from for city peeps and beach bums.

Orange Leaf
65 Bay St Port Melbourne
There are 16 delicious flavours of frozen yogurt to choose from and all are made on site daily. They also have colouring sheets and crayons for the kids with loads of room for prams. I also love the Coconut flavoured fro yo at Orange Leaf. Just saying, again!

Trampoline
Doncaster – Brighton – Camberwell – Chadstone Shopping Centre – St Kidila and The Royal Childrens Hospital.
I love that Trampoline have an outlet at the RCH, because sick bubs need ice-cream too! Not only do they serve up a mean gelato they also do smoothies, sundaes and ice-cream cakes for kids parties.

Yo-Chi Frozen Yogurt Bar
St Kilda
We all love a bit of organic action for the wee ones, it’s expensive but you know it made with love and good quality ingredients. This self-serve yogurt bar also offer over 20 toppings to go with your organic treat.

Yogurddiction
Food Van
Don’t run around town looking for frozen treats – let them come to you. The good folk over at Yoguraddiction are always popping up at various parks and shopping centres around Melbourne. Just follow them on Facebook and Twitter for daily location details. And here is the kicker – have an order over $30 and they will bring it to YOU! Perfect for Mother’s Groups meet ups in the park.

Lucky Pops Ice Delights
Food Van
Don’t you just love a food van – we’re just a little bit in love with them ATM. No mess. No fuss. All you need is cash and picnic blanket. Lucky Pops Ice Delights serves up homemade goodness on a stick. Using the best local produce in town these icy poles are packed with real fruit, herbs and spices to delight all ages. Follow their Twitter or Facebook page for daily locations. They could be at your local park this week! 

Other spots worth a little mention……

Story In A Cup
South Yarra
Give 15% off when you purchase a Family Tub

Goodness Me in Richmond
295 Bridge Rd Richmond
Have $3 ice cream cones for the kid's

Gioco Gertz in Reservoir

Aurora Foods in Coburg North

Lick Me Ice Cream in Camberwell

Cacao Green located in Camberwell as well as the City

Ben and Jerry’s on the trendy Chapel St South Yarra

Don’t be shy! If we’ve forgotten your favourite frozen treat spot please add it below.

Mini Review :: Orange Leaf :: Port Melbourne

Looking for a healthy alternative to ice-cream for the kids now that summer is just around the corner?

As you know we like a sweet treat round these parts.  As shades of summer shine through on these spring days Mr 3 and I dream of ice-cream and other frozen treats. So when the folk at Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt invited us to try some of their range we jumped at the chance to treat ourselves and our sweet tooth.

 

Situated in Port Melbourne, Orange Leaf serve up 16 flavours of Frozen Yogurt, which are all made fresh daily on site. For the fruit lovers they serve up flavours such as Mango, Strawberry, Kiwi and Blueberry and for the die-hard sweet-tooth’s they have flavours such as Cookies and Cream, Chocolate, White Chocolate, Coffee and (my favourite) Cotton Candy.

If that’s not enough to get your mouth watering Orange Leaf also have over 20 extra toppings to add to your frozen yogurt. Yes toppings! Drool Drool! You can go on the healthy side of town and top your yogurt with fresh fruit, nuts , dried fruits and muesli or if you’re feeling like going all out and smashing the diet then splash on some chocolate buds, smashed Crunchie Bars, Tim Tams,  M and M’s or colourful sprinkles.

At Orange Leaf it’s all self-serve, so it was really fun for Mr 3 to look through all the flavours, have a little try of some and then add his toppings to his chosen yogurt. Once you’ve finished making your dessert master piece pop it on the provided scale. You see at Orange Leaf you pay by weight, you’re in control of your portion size and topping selection, which is good for children. Parents can control the amount of frozen goodness the kids consume.

Some Fast Frozen Yogurt Facts

All of the frozen yogurts are made fresh daily on site

All flavours are Gluten free

There are 16 Flavours on site to choose from daily.

Coming soon :: Sugar FREE flavours Chocolate and Vanilla

You can get all the nutrition information HERE

Orange Leaf has Lactose Free flavours like
“Pineapple” with “Orange” Coming Soon

2 cup sizes to choose from plus a small sample
size so you can “try before you buy!”

All the packaging is bio-degradable which = environmental friendly

Frozen Yogurt is a healthy alternative to
ice-cream and is jam packed with probiotics

Know before you Froyo! 
Yes they have an app with all the latest daily flavours.

 Are they kid friendly? Oh YES they most certainly are!!

The Orange Leaf store has plenty of room for the prams, colouring sheets, low seats for the kids, toilets on site and they also host children’s parties.

Open Daily 11am – Late

Located at 65 Bay St Port Melbourne and Torquay

Get  20% off your Frozen Yogurt when you mention the Hey Bambini Blog!

Valid Til 31st October