Sunday Sundae?

Fancy trying this sundae lunch?

The traditional Sunday roast has been re-invented as an ice cream sundae.

The “Sundae Lunch” comprises three “courses”, each of them a mouth-watering
dessert.

The starter is a fresh pea sorbet with a hint of mint, followed by a main of
beef bouillon and horseradish sorbet topped with a Yorkshire Pudding wafer.

The final course is an apple and blackberry crumble gelato with the entire
frozen lunch costing £16.99.

The sundae has been designed by award-winning Italian master mixologist
Roberto Lobrano, who trains ice cream professionals at the Carpigiani Gelato
University near Bologna.
It is being made by Mark Broadbent, former head chef at Terence Conran’s
Bluebird restaurant in London’s Chelsea.

He said: “All my years of training as a chef and the catering rule book have
been thrown out of the window.

“Turning a traditional savoury favourite like the Sunday roast into an ice
cream sundae was a real challenge and it took about 20 attempts to pull it
off with all the flavours.

“At the end of this weird tasting journey, the end result is delicious.”

The strange sundae is being offered by makers The Icecreamists in their
“subversive” ice cream parlour at London’s Selfridges.

The firm is running an ‘ice cream amnesty’ at Selfridges where customers can
trade more conventional supermarket flavours for quirky offerings from the
new range.

Matt O’Connor, founder of The Icecreamists, said: “I wanted to create
something with a real taste of Britain, so of course we had to try the great
Sunday roast.
“The Sundae Lunch is an evocative dish that provides our visitors with a
surprising twist on the traditional favourite.

“We had a lot of fun testing and perfecting the recipe for this one.”

Another of the parlour’s wacky offerings is the £11.99 ‘Sex Pistol’, an ice
cream that contains two herbal Viagras and is served with a shot of absinthe
in a pink water pistol.

Diners at the parlour can also sit in a real ice cream van to eat their
purchases and play its jingles.

The parlour is open daily at Selfridges until November 1.
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