Holly Brown - for gelato

Date of visit: Thursday 15^th July 2010

Holly Brown Coffee @ Stanley Street

After lunch at Green Waffle Diner, it was time for dessert. Seeing as I wasn’t able to sample their frozen confectionaries last weekend, I was desperate to try Holly Brown’s gelato, claimed to be ‘hand-made’. We sampled the milk gelato (your standard sweet cream flavour), the strawberry gelato (so-so only) and their plain frozen yogurt (not bad), but decided we liked mint chocolate the best.

menu

menu 2 

We looked at the menu and rather than having a plain scoop we went for the pre-set ones in waffle bowls, which come in three sizes. We opted for a large mint a la mode ($56) (i.e. a waffle bowl with a huge scoop of gelato ‘fried’ with chocolate sauce, dark chocolate shavings and oreo cookies).

Appearance wise it didn’t look as good as the menu – there was significantly less toppings and I couldn’t really detect any chocolate sauce, as promised. However the ‘chocolate chips’ were very thin shavings of dark chocolate which went so well with the mint chocolate flavoured ice cream, giving it a good ‘crispy’ texture all around. The oreo cookies were also chopped up in good sizes to give it extra crunch. What disappointed the both of us was the badly made waffle. Yes this place is relatively new but if you are to open a gelato bar with waffles you might as well make sure your waffle bowls are executed well. They were not crisp at all like what you would expect from a cone (think Haagendaz’s ) but actually soft…. You could literally ‘tear’ it rather than snap it like crunchy waffle cones usually do… which gave us an impression of a cookie left overnight. I knew we should have asked for another ‘bowl’ but seeing as we were full from lunch and our huge scoop of gelato we decided to let them off.

gelato corner

Service was extremely friendly and seating was comfortable and spacious. Would come back for their many flavours of gelato (snickers, yakult, chocolate!!), but please do improve your waffle bowls!

Food: ♥♥♥

Service: ♥♥♥♥

Price: $

Holly Brown

22 Stanley Street, Lan Kwai Fong, 

Central, Hong Kong 

Tel: +852 2869 9689