Häagen-Dazs

Came here for dessert after having dinner nearby. I remember there being a take out section. Did not remember there being a restaurant and really wanted to go and check it out & as we only had drinks planned after this I insisted we go to the restaurant and the drinks could wait a little. There was a queue to go in but we didn’t wait too long as it was moving pretty quick. We went in and got seated, I had the simple 2 scoops of ice cream but my friend had the most fanciest dessert I’d seen. It was brownie explosion. It looked so lush but way too chocolatey for me. It was a crumbly freshly baked Chocolate Macadamia Brownie with scoops of Chocolate Midnight Cookies and Vanilla Caramel Brownie, all covered in hot chocolate fudge sauce. It looked gorgeous and tasted divine.

Random Saturday nights at this Haagen Dazs shop are always brilliant! Be warned that it’s in the heart of Liecester Square, a super busy place, and expect a queue. This place is a perfect end to a date night or a girl’s night out. It’s Haagen Daz ice cream! Need I say more?

I went through the take away are only – 2 days in a row… it probably would have been more days in a row if I had discovered it earlier in my vacation.
The staff was friendly and quick. I liked that I was able to taste a few options before making my decision on which ice cream to choose. They don’t have very many options and half the options have caramel which I hate. So I settled on the mint… which I never get anywhere. It was still delicious, especially with the hot fudge. I only got one scoop since that was plenty for me. They also accept credit cards which is a huge plus since I hardly ever carry any cash.
They have several topping options and sundae options but I kept mine basic. No crêpe for me!

Who doesn’t love the sweet things in life! In Leicester Square Haagen-​Dazs really do know what they are doing when it comes to Ice Cream, Drinks and Desserts, they are constantly updating their menu with fresh ideas and I love going to this place (they even do special event nights for Valentines Day which we have been to on a couple of occasions) for further special event nights I suggest you check out their website for full details. You can chose something off the menu or you can create your own with many flavours to chose from. The place is always busy with tourists flooding in for a sweet tooth lunch divulge! I love their hot chocolate (see my picture) I shall always go there when I have an opportunity to do so, plus the prices are quite good too for these days. There is also a Take-​Out section if you do not wish to eat in (nice for sunny days in Leicester Square to sit in the park and watch the world go by).

Brought my girlfriend here after a fun date at the theatre next door before planning to take an evening walk around Leicester Square — BIG MISTAKE. I ended up digging in only to find (AFTER a few spoonfuls) a looong, dark strand of hair lodged in my ice cream! Needless to say I threw the remainders straight into the nearest bin, and seeing the hair was enough to make my girlfriend do the same with hers! Did not expect this from somewhere so well known for ice cream, especially when you’re paying that much money! Doubt I’ll be returning any time soon!

Love this place for a nice icecream or even a icy drink the lemon sorbet one always gives me freeze me brain. My favourite icecream from hagen is praline, cookie dough, salted caramel and lemon sorbet. when ever I come here I like to sit up stairs as I prefer that area over the ground floor. Only downfall with this establishment is that the staff can be s tad slow.

The ice cream here was quite overpriced for such a small amount, as expected — though it is understandable why they would serve smaller portions, considering how sickly or overwhelmingly sweet it can be, depending on what you choose. The place was comfortable, with fancy chandeliers and so on — a nice place to sit in. Not that bad.

One of my most favourite places to go for dessert. You will find a range of ice cream, nearly all delicious! To accompany, waffles, crepes, cookies or fudge cake. You can select a ‘ready made’ dessert or create your own.
My favourite combinations are: praline with waffles and strawberry and cream ice cream. It’s good to go for 1 fruity ice cream so it doesn’t get sickly.
Didn’t give it a five because they are incredibly busy and therefore the service is not there all the time. I had to once wait for a long time for my order and when the ice cream came it was half melted. Not the taste I like.

Rare are the Haagen Dazs places in the world that can still make you happy…
although the cleanliness of the place could still be improved, the staff is super nice and attentive and the items and ice cream remain a top!
(now that the Italian ice cream parlor on West Leicester square has closed due to construction-​renovations, Haagen Dazs does it!)

We had a lovely afternoon snack here back in October. Even though it took a lot of time, everything was delicious.

Service stinks! Seriously, I’m not coming here for the ice cream that I can get at my local market. It wants to be a proper restaurant but it needs work.

This place is great. Table service and a full ice cream and pastry menu. Wish we had this format Häagen-​Dazs in the USA.

Had a lovely Belgian waffle with caramel sauce, and la dolce lerche and praline ice cream. Soooooo good! Too formal of a setting, if you ask me! And a bit pricey but yummy! I’ll probably be back again!

Waited outside in the cold for a table to become available although it was a shirtt wait it was still outside. Once inside we where seated up stairs the staff where friendly and attentive.
The deserts are so rich I struggled to finish mine if not getting just ice cream by itself maybe think of getting a desert to share.

So I had never had haagen dazs from its shop.
Though I have bought family size pots from supermarkets.
So thought I would drop in and check out the store. The good thing about the store is that there are two separate queues, one for take out and the other for dine in. You wouldn’t have to queue to dine in if there wasn’t much of a crowd.
But you know it is London and its Leicester square. That is where half of Europe’s tourists are throughout the year. So getting a seat in here would mean standing in line. And if it is winter then you can freeze waiting in queue and make ice cream of yourself.
Anyway I wasn’t patient enough to wait for a seat inside so got in the take-​out queue. When i checked the menu they had some exclusive-​for-​the-​shop flavours. I thought I could try one of them. I am a little picky so i wanted to avoid things with caramel and chocolate and try something with nuts and fruits. But I forgot-​the-​name flavour was out of stock. Pretty obvious ain’t it? You wouldn’t stand in queue to have a scoop of supermarket flavour. You could have had it from home. So I was so happy (not) and got myself one of those new flavours. Banana and brownies with crushed nutty toppings that cost about 5GBP or so. All that apart, the ice cream tasted pretty good. I wouldn’t say it was worth all that wait and money. But yea, rich in flavours, melted in my mouth. Hmmm. It was an experience indeed.

Now, what would you do (if I sang out of tune… Wait that’s the start of a song and has nothing to do both what I’m actually typing). What would you do if you were suitably filled with lunch but had a cheeky corner spare for pudding — that casual pudding stomach that all us sweet lovers keep empty, just in case. And, what would you do if you were in Leicester Square on a cool yet brisk day with some friends, also eager for dessert. Well, what I did to treat my friends was pop into Haagen Dazs café for ice cream!
As you wander in, you are hit with a blast of warm air, almost to convince you that it is actually perfect weather for ice cream and not freezing outside. Well it worked for us, so we sat down upstairs (they have an upstairs with sofas!!!). I decided on a simple 2 scoop dessert of pralines and cream complimented by salted caramel. Both divine, silky smooth and sickly sweet. A bit too sweet to go together, something with a bitter chocolate taste would have been a better partner in hindsight. But I’d made salted caramel at home earlier that week and wanted to see if mine was better (it was equally good btw, chalk a win up to me on that one!!!). Expensive here, typical Leicester Square. £5 for the ice cream, £2.60 for a standard latte. Annoyed a touch. But also sweet tooth sated and as my flatmate said, ‘what’s good about life if you can’t treat yourself?’ To which I looked blank at her attempt at philosophy until we both awkwardly turned away to drink from our oversized mugs of tea.
Back on message, my friend had an interesting combo of salted caramel and mango & raspberry sorbet topped with that chocolate sauce that hardens so you can crack it. Obviously in a weird mood.
Great service and friendly, but overpriced drops the stars for me.

Hot In The City !
There’s one place you can be sure you’ll find me when the heat is on, just like it’s been in London these past few week — an ice shop !
The Big Daddy of them all for me, used to be Baskin Robbins, but my first love has long since been forgotten. Replaced by another — the super sexy Häagen-​Dazs.
When my No 1 nephew suggested we drop by for dessert, I wasn’t complaining. We slinked our way past the takeaway queue and were swiftly led to a table upstairs.
Having initially been taken by some rather gorgeous light fixtures, I was a little disappointed by the rather uninspired décor of murky cream, birch wood and cheap looking brown leather chairs.
Just because I’m excited about devouring the latest flavour sensation, doesn’t mean I don’t want to do it in fun, chic surroundings. A little lesson for their no doubt jaded interior design team.
Fortunately my attention was diverted by the extensive menu, presented in hardback book. The book crammed full of page, after page of those kind of sexy food shots that are so temptingly inviting: you long for your food to hurry up and get here already !.
Cast as the star of the show was ice cream in just about every combination you could think of.
Ice cream and waffles, ice cream and crepes with sauces, ice cream with toppings and for all of us old school ice cream freaks — just ice cream !! Albeit served as two or three scoop helpings ! .
I plumped for banana ice cream with toffee drizzled crepes (a taste sensation !) and my nephew chose three scoops — mango and raspberry, pistacho and strawberry cheesecake — all of which I could happily have chomped my way through solo :0)
I may have been underwhelmed by their lazy décor, but there’s no disputing the taste and quality of Häagen-​Dazs ice cream.
Will I be going back to Leicester Square?
Probably not — I’ll be sticking to my Friday night special of a movie, me in my PJs and a trusty tub of Häagen-​Dazs pralines and cream, perched lovingly on a very large spoon :0)

So it’s nighttime and you’re wandering around Leicester Square. You see a long line of people. At first, you think to yourself that it’s probably a queue for a nightclub, but then you investigate further. Then you see that it’s a line of people waiting to get into Haagen Daz.
It’s a bit weird for me, an American, to see this long line for ice cream. Maybe because where I’m from we don’t really have nice, sit-​down ice cream shops. My friend and I went here months ago and we still talk about going back. I’m trying to hold back my inner fatty from coming in here every time I pass by. They do so much stuff with this ice cream. However you want it, you can have it your way here. Feel like drinking? Oh yeah, they have ice cream alcoholic beverages as well.
Keep in mind this place gets busy. I wouldn’t have thought that ice cream could make such a big fuss but this Haagen Daz must be doing something right.

A birthday treat.
My best friend surprised me on my birthday by turning up on my door and whisking me away to get ice cream.
I think I’d been in here once, looked at the price and went. Not having the biggest sweet tooth in the world I have never been fussed about paying £8.00 for ice cream. But since it was my birthday — what the hell!
It was a busy Sat afternoon but we got seated right away. Our waitress was literally the sweetest girl, attentive, polite with a great big smile — not what you expect from a chain in the most tourist-​y area in London. When she got wind it was my birthday she arranged a lovely plate with whipped cream and ‘happy birthday’ written in sauces. It was amazing and so far from a dodgy candle in my ice-​cream. And no one awkwardly sang at me. Brilliant.
I ordered the Brownie explosion — it came out in a small bowl and I was thinking — is that it. But as couldn’t finish the bowl I think that says it all. The Mrs had the Summer Fruit cone which was yummy and epic. Having the biggest sweet tooth in the world she was still licking away at her cone long after the rest of us had given up.
I’d recommend having an empty stomach and your tastebuds ready for lovely creamy ice cream.
This place was such a pleasant surprise and I’ll be coming back again for the ice-​creams around the world and waffles next time.

I want Häagen-​Dazs ice cream even on a cold day!
You might think that just because it’s not a secret and not an independent seller, that it’s too «ordinary», but sometimes familiar things have been around this long for good reason! I love tiny quality gelato shops (and I have literally made a list and visited them all haha) as much as anybody, but I still think Häagen-​Dazs is wonderful.
Funnily enough, Häagen-​Dazs was started by two New Yorkers who gave it an exotic European sounding name to attract customers. I don’t think there was any need though, because the ice cream speaks for itself.
The ice cream here is always creamy and rich, without being overwhelming. And it is definitely yummy and satisfying! They have tons of flavours and I am actually a bit scared to share my personal favorite order, because it’s so good that they have run out a few times and I’ve had to get something else. I have to be honest though and I’ll tell you what it is… the chocolate semifreddo. Now please leave some for me! ;) It’s a large portion and everytime I go my friend and I share and end up scraping the plate until the waitress laughs at us, no kidding! You might catch us licking the plate if you ever go;)
The place itself is great. The location in Leicester Square can’t be beat for convenience and liveliness. It has two large floors, so even when it’s a crowded Saturday night, I can get a table without having to wait long and it’s open late. There are usually a lot of people there, which makes you feel like you’re in the place to be. The service is good and I’ve never had to wait too long for my order. They have always been flexible as well about switching sauces and flavours for most orders and I appreciate that. The menu is good with lots of ways to enjoy your ice cream.
For me, it’s the perfect way to end a Saturday night in central London, talking late into the night over scoops of perfect and delicious ice cream. I love it!

Ein tolles Eiscreme-​Restaurant mit wundervollen Arrangements, sehr lecker, und immer eine Schlange von Menschen vor der Tür!

Da ich an dem Abend mit einer Freundin ins Kino wollte und wir noch ein wenig Zeit hatte, beschlossen wir vorher noch im Häagen Dazs ein wenig zu schlemmen. Der eindeutige Vorteil hier trotz des etwas höheren Preise ist, wenn man diese großen Häagen Dazs Packungen im Supermarkt kauft, ißt man meist die Packung nacheinander leer. Im Laden, konnten wir uns mal so richtig austoben und die verschiedenste Sorten gleichzeitig naschen. Das war echt ziemlich gut! Ob ich nun zu viele Kugeln bestellt hatte oder diese einfach zu groß waren, ich habe meine Portion nicht ganz aufgekriegt. Am Geschmack lag es aber sicherlich nicht.

Hier gibt es die besten Eissorten auf der ganzen Welt… Diese daenische Firma erfindet staendig neue crationen wie zum beispiel cookies und sahne oder himbeer und eischnee.
Die Kugeln sind zwar nicht ganz billig, aber wenn man sieht wie gross die sind lohnt sich wirklich hierhin einen Abstecher zu machen. sogar wenn es –20 Grad waeren ;)