The Chin Chin Laboratorists

Tried the salted caramel ice cream, it’s a great concept and was quite good but not the best ice cream I’ve had. Their hot cocoa looks really good! I wish I got to try it but I was too full at that time. Small shop, super friendly staff and good to try if you’re here.

This place is awesomeeee! I had a piña colada ice cream which was dairy free, but I would’nt have had a clue. It was super creamy and delicious! My boyfriend had the chocolate cookie ice cream sandwich. The cookie was a bit rich and cocoa-​ey for me, but he loved it =] Cant wait to go back even though it’s winter!

Absolutely amazing!
I had the salted burnt caramel l and it really hits the spot. What makes this flavour tastes so special is the bitter of the burned caramel then some sea salt flake that keeps the ice cream from being boring. It’s nitrogen so the texture of the ice cream is so smooth and rich. Staffs were so friendly. Chin Chin wins my heart!

Finally I got to try the famous chin chin nitro ice cream. I obviously had to pick the Valhrona chocolate flavor with one cookie/​brownie. It is served with a chocolate sauce that hardened with the cold. (This part os à bit difficult to eat actually as it is really hard to break it up with spoon)
The place is small but had few seats. It is really popular and you could see everyone trying their best to grasp their ice cream order through their camera lense. I have to say that it is even better in real.
I knocked a star down because I think that it was a tad expensive for what it was, but surely the quality of the ingredients play a big role.

Right outside Camden market is where Chin Chin makes magic happen! They make ice cream with liquid nitrogen right in front of you! They only have three flavors: vanilla, chocolate, and a rotating flavor. You can add different toppings to the ice cream and my favorite was the grilled white chocolate. I still dream about that white chocolate. I wish I bought a bag of it. The ice cream itself was pretty standard, but it was the experience of the liquid nitrogen and the white chocolate that brought it up to a whole other level.

I got a special flavor — apple turnover! It came with pastry flakes and the ice cream tasted like apple-​pie. Can’t wait to return for more flavors.

I finally tried it.
Me, My lady, and Ice Cream. A love story.
It’s been at least a couple of years I wanted to try this place and its ice cream prepared using liquid nitrogen. I already tasted it in Italy during my university (thanks to Chemistry department!) and I was pretty curious to taste it again in a «professional» environment.
Freezing ice cream with liquid nitrogen should allow the ice cream not to form any crystalization of the liquid (as the temperature decrease is too fast) and the result should be a smooth, perfect texture allowing the taste of ice cream to come up in a much more pleasant way.
So. How was it? Well the ice cream definitely had that perfect structure. I was really enjoying the texture and the release of flavors, it was just perfect. But the problem here was the flavors itself. Too much sugar and less than top-​quality vanilla brought the result to something that was not good enough for being called a good ice cream. Too sweet, boring, it’s not something you’d have another bowl.
Oh and it’s also a bit overpriced (4.45 per bowl, yes a big one but still one).
In the end. I do not suggest it if you are looking for an ice cream (head to Gelatorino you fool!) but if you tasted everything else than this could be a nice «let’s try it once» thing.

Doughnut and jelly, corona and lime, cigar caramel and jelly babies. These are just some of the flavours that I’ve come to try and love at Chin Chin Labs over the years.
Based in bustling Camden lock market, chin chin labs freezes its ever changing ice cream flavours on the spot using nitrogen.
Staff are always super friendly and the portion sizes just keep getting larger and larger. I couldn’t even finish my gigantic scoop of matcha marshmallow ice cream today!

Echt ungewöhnliche Location — in einer kleinen Küche mitten im Camden Market erinnert die Einrichtung eher an Breaking Bad als an eine Eisdiele.
Die 5 Sterne verdient sich der Laden aber durch seine wunderbar einfallsreichen Eiszusammenstellungen — unbedingt mal probieren!

Toller Eisladen für Nerds. Hier wird mit Stickstoff Eis «frisch» hergestellt.
Ein wenig versteckt auf dem Camden Market findet man Chin Chin. Wer sich von dem abgefahrenem Chemiker-​Interieur nicht abschrecken lässt, wird hier nicht nur ein gutes Eis bekommen, sondern gleich noch den damit verbundenen «Event». Nach der Bestellung wird das Eis für jeden direkt frisch angerührt, was natürlich mit dem flüssigen Stickstoff ein toller Effekt ist. Da zahlt man eben nicht nur für das Eis, sondern auch noch für den kleinen Chemiker-​Nerd-​Traum mit. Auch für Kinder ist das natürlich toll anzusehen.
Wer also die Camden Markets besucht, sollte sich hier mal zwischendurch ein Eis-​Event gönnen!

Review #4
Being able to get ice cream on the instant, without having to wait for it to cool down is a big perk. The staff use physics and liquid nitrogen — which is rarely found — to create these awesome desserts.
People often refer to Chin Chin as the best place to get ice cream in London. The texture and taste is really something you’ll remember. Smooth and almost melting in your mouth, but still cool enough to be ice cream. They offer a wide rage of flavours and toppings you’ll get obsessed with.
I tried a brownie cookie, massive scoop of ice cream, molten chocolate shell & extra hazelnut sand –An absolute ice cream sexiness. I never expected chemical reactions to be so delicious.

Before I forget to write this down, this place is CASH ONLY! So stock up on fivers/​tenners before you visit, yeah?
Chin Chin. Silly name, great ice cream. Tucked away by Camden Lock, this place does some weird stuff involving liquid nitrogen to make the ice cream on the spot. I don’t really care about that — it seems like a bit of a gimmick to me.
What I do care about is the ice cream, which was fantastic. It’s served on a disposable/​biodegradable plate with a beautiful chocolate square stuck in the top, and with a variety of toppings available. I think I chose hazelnut dust for the plain vanilla ice cream.
As for the ‘specials’ available, went for the coffee-​and-​donuts option, which came in a sort of little pool of coffee with broken down bits of donuts at the bottom. It was great. Wish I’d taken some photos, but I had eaten all my ice cream (such was my excitement/​enthusiasm) before I remembered that I should get some evidence. And heaven knows I’m miserable now. Will do next time.

I LOVE IT! Great icecream, great experience!
Waiting for your icecream to be made on the spot is ‘cool’ and I mean really cool, something like minus 200 degrees Celcius boiling temperature cool.
I don’t really get the physics behind it but the special effects of the icemakers pouring boiling liquid nitrogen into their mixers is already worth the visit with all the ‘smoke’ coming from your nice Madagascar vanilla creamy icecream.
And, maybe not unimportant, what is also great is the actual icecream, great taste and fabulous texture, different tastes with special ingredients and experiments probably every day.

If you’re searching for happiness in the form of dessert, look no further. This place has (hands down) the best ice cream/​gelato I’ve had in London thus far. I ended up getting the «Warmie» — a brownie cookie topped with vanilla ice cream (you can choose any ice cream flavor you want though). The Warmie is also supposed to be topped with molten chocolate that hardens into a shell around the ice cream, but that didn’t sound too appealing to me so I opted for the pistachio topping instead.
Now I’ve had liquid nitrogen ice cream back in California (Ice Cream Lab, LA) so I had some pretty high expectations. I’m happy to say I wasn’t at all disappointed (with the ice cream, at least)! The vanilla ice cream was phenomenal. It had the creamiest texture (absolutely zero ice chunks) and had an incredibly natural flavor (which I think is a testament to just how fresh their ice cream is). The pistachio crumbles also added a nice touch, but the ice cream was definitely the star. The only reason why I’m giving this place 4 stars instead of 5 is because the brownie was honestly disappointing. It wasn’t warm (contrary to what the menu promised), it was really hard to spoon, and overall just wasn’t anything special in my opinion. The price was also kind of high (~5 pounds). I mean, $ 7.80 for a brownie/​cookie + ice cream? Anyway, if I’m in the area again I’m for sure making a stop here — not for the brownie, but definitely for the ice cream.

I went here back in December on a first date (I know, ice cream around Christmas, so clever). There wasn’t much on the menu back then, if I remember correctly. But I got the chocolate and my date got the vanilla and the show alone as they make the ice cream in front of you is brilliant. The entire place looks like The Great British Bake Off mixed with Scrapheap Challenge.
The people who work there are so friendly too, they didn’t look in the least bit phased by my date asking hundreds of questions about the equipment and the process they went through to perfect their technique.
But the main thing people want to know about, of course, is the ice cream good? Yes. I understood the process before, I’ve seen Heston do it on TV, the trick is that the faster the liquid freezes, the smoother it is, and the ice cream here is ridiculously smooth. It’s like the thickest soft serve you’ve ever had.

Probably the best ice-​cream I’ve ever had, being made right in front of you. I had the pineapple & rum cake which is just refreshing and delicious.

I’ve been trying to find ice cream made with liquid nitrogen for a really long time, and I finally got a chance to try it! The texture was really incredible. It was much smoother and more dense than regular ice cream, almost chewy. The flavors were also really good, definitely top 3 strawberry and chocolate ice creams I have ever had. However, the scoops are pretty big, and since the ice cream is so dense it was very filling. I would have preferred a smaller (and cheaper) serving.

Amazing experience! Have you ever seen your special ice cream made right in front of your eyes? Here the magic happens! I will repeat again, magic happens here!
They have the most unique flavours and toppings making the options unlimited! Definitely worth a visit!

Nitro ice cream!!! Seriously, do I really need to say anything more? I know I don’t as that is just about the most awesome thing I ever heard, but I will anyway. The Chin Chin Laboratories truly give a new meaning for ICE cream using liquid nitrogen to freeze their ice cream. Located perfectly in the vibrant and buzzing Camden markets this ice cream parlour slash science lab is sure to put a smile on your face. All of the ice cream is freshly made to order and you get to watch the «cooks» use liquid nitrogen to freeze the in house hand made ice cream bases right in front of you. How cool (I mean freezing cool) is that? Ok, so what to get when you are there? I was faced with this difficult question myself as I was going through the menu that changes weekly, but not to worry, you can’t go wrong with their top-​seller «The Brown-​wich» (that’s an ice cream sandwich) which is two freshly baked dense chocolate brownie cookies stuffed with Pondicherry vanilla. OMG so good! Well there you have it, a must-​taste in London!

Super Eis! Toppings auch. Schöné Atmosphäre in Camden macht den die Enge des Ortes vergessen. Sehr eindrücklich, die Machart des Eises…

I’ve been to Chin Chin Labs twice now and neither time has disappointed. You feel like you’re in a chemistry lab as you watch the masters at work mixing the ice cream using liquid nitrogen with smoke pouring over the sides of the bowl.
I like that they always try different flavours. Most recently I had cream cheese frosting and red velvet ice cream which was unique and amazing.
Also whoever came up with the idea of grilled chocolate is a genius! My one negative would be the cost as it’s quite pricy for what you get but as a special treat it’s not too bad.

C’est à Camden qu’on découvre les tendances mode, musical et culinaire
Chin Chin Labs propose des glaces sont faite à l’azote sous vos yeux
Un peu cher mais c’est tellement bon, à tester si vous allez à Londres

Incredible liquid nitrogen based ice cream. They have a few flavors to choose from daily but they rotate them frequently. The toppings were different and refreshing. The ice cream «scientists» are surrounded by ginormous nitrogen tanks, they have on goggles and lab coats to create you an awesome treat.
The ice cream was so good, and the toppings were marvelous. It’s hard to go wrong with the flavor combinations. What a fun experience! Definitely will be back if I’m ever in Camden again.

Chin Chin Labs is gimmicky. They advertise ice cream flash frozen using liquid nitrogen and the first thing that came to my mind was Dippin’ Dots. No thanks. My travel buddy had to twist my arm to get me to try this place with her. Glad I did.
We ordered one scoop of the Pondicherry Vanilla for 3.95 pounds (roughly $ 6.50 *ouch*). The employees were very friendly and eager to discuss their product. We were able to watch them make the ice cream in front of our eyes. The finished product was delicious! Thick, smooth, creamy with a strong vanilla taste. It was wonderful!
Pricey ice cream for tourists, but definitely worth a visit for people in the area.

5 étoiles sans aucune hésitation !
La meilleure glacé du monde entier (oui oui).
J’ai choisi une glacé parfum marshmallow, noix de coco, parsemé de chocolat fondu.
La glacé est préparée en direct devant mes yeux ébahis ! C’est surprenant !
Niveau goût: INCROYABLE ! Toutes les saveurs sont là ! La texture est crémeuse et le goût terriblement délicieux !
Le tout pour moins de 4£ !
FONCEZ !

Muito bom o sorvete. os sabores explodem na sua boca. e o melhor de tudo o atendimento eh rápido e os funcionários simplesmente simpáticos.

Situé dans un quartier assez unique en son genre, on y entre comme dans un laboratoire, servis par des chercheurs en blouse qui élaborent une crème glacée avec chaque fois la même passion. On voit de la fumée, on entend des bruits farfelus comme si tout allait exploser, avec des tuyaux un peu partout et puis hop, en ressort une magnifique glacé artisanale délicieuse sans pareil égal au monde. Déco très amusante, le serveur est également très amusant, à lui tout seul il représenterait le cliché du jeune homme anglais chaleureux et drôle. Il nous propose une large gamme de choix entre glaces, garnitures et sirops, de quoi nous rendre fous.
Bref, ce sont les meilleures glaces de tout Londres :)

Geiles Eis, ein muss für jeden der in Camden unterwegs ist. Es ist eine Schau zu sehen wie das kostbare Eis zubereitet wird. Die Toppings sind auch ein Traum

London, Camden Town, Camden Lock Market.
Wer hier ist und Eis-​Liebhaber ist muß einfach bei Chin Chin vorbei gehen.
Es hat einen Grund warum sie auch schon mal als bestes Londoner Eis einen Preis bekommen haben. Einfach cool wie da mit Stickstoff das Eis gemacht wird und man dann noch Soße und Topping selbst wählen kann …
Ein besonderes Geschmackserlebnis dort ein Eis zu essen.
Einziger Nachteil sind die nur sehr wenigen Plätze drinnen und draussen.
Aber wer dort in der Nähe ist, unbedingt dort vorbei schauen.