Beaumaris, Anglesey

Ice cream in Beaumaris means only one thing: The Red Boat.  Anglesey is one of my favourite  places to visit, and it has ranked even higher since The Red Boat opened a few years ago.

We were in the area for a long weekend, so we managed two visits to the ice cream parlour (obviously purely for quality control reasons).

On Friday 3rd June Mr H and I were well ready for ice cream. We had been to the Marin mountain bike trail at Betws y Coed (my first real red route, v exciting) on the Thursday, and we arrived at our campsite quite late that evening (Kingsbridge - not a budget site but really nice with good facilities).

We started slowly on Friday with a single scoop. Mr H had Creme Fraiche & Forest Berries flavour, MCC broke from the norm and chose Raspberry Ripple Royale. We both had flakes. The ice cream was, as usual, incredible. 

On Saturday we walked up to Penman point (didn't see any puffins though) and did some of the coastal footpath.  This earned us a double scoop.  The ice cream party today included our friend Schoolboy Wizard. SBW was very well behaved and only had a single scoop, New York Cheescake With Lime.  Mr H had a double, Chocolate Caramel + Jellybear.  Both flavours were great, I wasn't sure what I was expecting from Jellybear flavour but it definitely exceeded it!  MCC went for After Eight (an interesting take on choc mint!) + Spicy Apple & Cinnamon.  As I’m sure you’ll imagine, these two flavours didn't really compliment each other, but I wanted to try them both so I did!  They were of course both fantastic.

See below for scores, an average from all on the panel (both days).

The only thing spoiling a perfect score is the price.  Don't get me wrong, the price is very reasonable for a good ice cream in a tourist town, however, for the prices you pay you would expect a little bit more generosity.  Then again small portions are the perfect excuse to get a double!

Can't wait for the next visit to ice cream Mecca!