Never had hemp or beetroot - pomegranate ice cream?
Then you should step by "Die Eisdielerin". Here you can find various flavors of ice cream and they are all vegan. I am not vegan, but I still love to come here because they just use fresh, regional and high-quality products and focus on sustainability. You can taste that the ice cream is homemade and without any artificial flavors. They also offer buckets to take your ice cream home and keep it in the freezer so you can enjoy it anytime at home.
If you are more in the mood for something salty, you can get waffles in every variation, like salmon, goat cheese, spinach-feta, tomato-mozzarella and many more. Also, the dough of the waffles is plant-based. Of course you can also have a sweet waffle besides your ice cream: chocolate, banana, apple-cinnamon... anything you can think of.
You can enjoy your ice cream in the sun in front of the shop or take it with you and enjoy it during a nice walk on Venloer Street.
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