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Wine and ice cream-two things that light joy, though rarely at the same time. But in Dreamely, a new wine grass in the world and ice cream salon in the city of Leafy de Beauvoir, in northern London, they gather magically.
Pint -size bar is the work of Alex Young and George de Vos, also the creators of farewell horses, a natural obedient summer bar and restaurant on the same road that witnessed one of the 2024 underground hits. About the same Time, The Pair also started the daily journey, a craft cafe in the same building. “Both George and I see the creation of hospitality places like creating worlds in itself,” says Young, who worked on technology. “We wanted to create a small village, an ecosystem that has a sense of escape.”
Ice cream and wine can be a complex match from a purely technical perspective, as the sweetness of the former can make the last flat taste. But whatever the nuance is lost in pairing is greatly exceeded by the spirit of entertainment it creates. “Our approach to pairing is quite anarchic,” Young admits.
There is an improvisational feeling for the whole enterprise – however there are some important names behind the scenes. Goodbye horses were created by Swiss architect Leopold Banchini, which also has a permanent installation at the Pompidou center. The courtyard garden on the daily journey was created by the Jihae Hwang garden stylist, who has won several gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. The head of wine in the farewell horses is Nathalie Neles, once with good noble drinks. De Vos himself was once the brilliant Corners GM, a Japanese musical place and restaurant in Dalston.
Dreamry is placed in a former guardian store. There is no sign out of a window with a window with three evaporated pana filled with animated silhouettes against a washing of colorful lights. The front door looks like any other on Victorian Terrac; But then note the stoop, which is painted, slightly prominent, sunny, moon and rune -like birds. Inside, it has the bones of an espresso tape-there are stainless steel counters and mirrored walls. But the eye is pulled to the ceiling, where a dizzying wall with background by artist Lucy Stein fills the color space. In the corner, a 1980s style Boombox plays strange Ghible studio results.
Goodbye Horse Horses Jack Coggins makes all ice creams, which are torn into the marker pen on the wall: in my visit they included fig leaves, pruning tea and oolong, ginger and pear and Verjus sorbet (4 pounds per spoon). There is no list of printed drinks, which will irritate some, but there is a small, regularly changing selection of light drinking wines, “Glou-Glou”: Rosé Moscato with gas; Crunchy, fragile beujolais, red served cute; Alsatian riesling and one or two dessert wines (from £ 7.50 a glass). The emphasis is on natural manufacturers and with low interference.
I squeeze into the grass and order a post-pre-prandial spoon of coffee and butterscotch, and a glass of tawny Passito Moscato from Cascina Cerutti, which is caramelized and achieved; My friend has fig leaves ice cream and a glass of spicy lychee riesling. Both wines have a sweet natural scale and so the end result is actually peach.
The ice cream comes in a cup of running steel executioners, as you can see in a cartoon. Summer glasses are crushed with a crescent moon eating an ice cream cone from Stein. Its folklore illustrations are also a major center of the most naturalist horses across the road; They run the full length of the ribbon 10 million and wander their way below the Garzy curtains. “There is a kind of childish quality for Lucy’s work,” says Young, “as you are seeing things with fresh eyes.”
An influence on Dreamry was Paris Bar Folderol, a fashionable glacier-bar-bar-vin in the 11th arondissement. The new also advises his hat for Glouglou in Amsterdam, “who has a large selection of glass and is fun and easy in a way that summer rods are often not.” “The true guide principle for all our bars is that we just want people to have a really beautiful time,” he says. “And I don’t think there is something more fun and joyful than to eat ice cream and drink wine.”
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