Comments on: Marble Slab Creamery – ICE CREAM!

By: Lovin Real Ice Cream

Lovin Real Ice Cream — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:05:55 +0000

OMG – get real people. Marble Slab uses no additives or preservatives or artificial flavorings – they tell you that right up front and and you can TASTE how real and pure it is. No bad after taste and it doesn’t leave you really thirsty. Quality doesn’t come cheap – not when you use high end ingredients. And as for the price – cream, cocoa and sugar prices keep going up (after all, they are commodities – just like Fuel) so how could anyone with a real brain expect that this place would be cheap (if you consider $5-6 cheap these days!)? Just in case you really live in a black hole, check housing prices – EVERYTHING is relative and inflates. That’s why most of us get salary increases every year! If the product is too expensive – stay home, buy a safeway pail of ice cream instead and help keep the lines down for those of us who LOVE quality and aren’t afraid to pay for it! AND stop whining about it.

By: i love food blog

i love food blog — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:56:11 +0000

Nice blog you got going.

Am I the only one that wishes they bring back Baskin Robbins? It’s hard to find one nowadays around the city.

I recently visited Marble Slab as well…for my review, check it out at:

http://ilovefoodblog.blogspot.com/

By: ANDREA

ANDREA — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:05:07 +0000

the best ice cream ever!!!!!!!! :D

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:32:12 +0000

True, Vancouverites do like their gelato. I usually get my ice cream fix outside of the GVRD. If ESR ever does a Winnipeg excursion during the summertime, the BDI (Bridge Drive In) is an ice cream must.

As far as Marble Slab goes, one of the readers at Tiny Bites mentioned that the takeout pints in the freezer behind the usual lineup give you best bang for buck.

You’re making me wonder whether a Vancouver ice creamery hunt is in order…you guys interested?

By: ed.chan

ed.chan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:01:39 +0000

That’s too bad Karen. The stuff really does melt quite quickly. The long lines, hot weather, and young staff probably didn’t help either :) Mondo is great.

It’s strange. Vancouver really is a gelato city. I don’t know why. I love Mondo too, but the ratio of gelato places to old-skool ice cream places seems suspiciously high to me. Maybe gelato fits Vancouver’s Lululemon culture better than ice cream does?

To me, it’s kinda like a fruit smoothy vs. a milkshake. Both are good. A fruit smoothy packs a lot of flavour and a little less guilt… but sometimes you just need the creamy decadence that only a milkshake/ice cream can provide :p

PS: A basic Marble Slab ice cream (i.e. waffle cone + 1 flavour + 1 fixin) will run you about $5-$6. Add more fixins or fancier dipped cones and the price will go north of $7. I agree with Karen; even with crazy inflation everywhere, $7+ for an ice cream cone just seems wrong.