Ice Cream Parlor with Gross, Suggestive Name, Cool Gimmick To Open In Wicker Park This Week

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Aug 12, 2008 6:04PM

Metromix has their opening date as yesterday or today. Helen Rosner at the always entertaining MenuPages Chicago has been waiting with bated breath for the doors to open, as well. We placed a call over to iCream in Wicker Park (1537 N. Milwaukee, 773-342-2834) to see when they would, indeed, open for business and were told "Thursday or Friday."

After reading Rosner's description of the place we may join her in breaking down the doors before then. Get past the name of the place (which we could feasibly also see as a song by Peaches) and iCream has our curiosity roused. Customers get to choose their choice of dairy (or non-dairy) base, flavors and toppings in store. Then the whole she-bang is made in a KitchenAid mixer using liquid nitrogen. Think Richard Blais making sorbet in part one of the "Top Chef Chicago" finale.

There's your hook. We can't get the image of a smoking cup of ice cream out of our head right now. [MenuPages Chicago]