Specialist ice cream shop Milk Train opened in Covent Garden in August of 2016, and I visited it in the spring of 2017. They became an instant hit with cotton candy/candy floss ice cream, which were popular on Instagram and popular with the tourists as well: Milk Train - Ice Cream and Candy Floss/Cotton Candy Clouds. Since then, the company have moved locations to a couple of blocks away, just behind the Transport Museum in Covent Garden on Tavistock Street. They have expanded their offerings as well.
Currently, Milk Train have a London autumn special. This is a Maple tree with orange candy floss, a chocolate stick (as the trunk), in a cup of maple-flavoured ice cream. On top of the ice cream are crumbs of cookies to look like soil and white chocolate flakes to look like autumn leaves on the ground.
The ice cream was very good. I wasn't that keen on the ice cream during my first visit, but this was as tasty as it was photogenic. The autumn treat is only on offer for a limited time. To get one, head over to their cafe on Tavistock Street.
Leave a comment