Cold Rock Ice Creamery

Personally I find the prices here quite exorbitant. Lots of different topping choices but most are just additive laden. I much prefer Bellisimo Gelato around the corner, their gelato is on par with the real stuff in Rome!

Dessert junkies will get their kicks (or no doubt already have) from this sweet little ice-​cream chain that specialises in adding chopped up ‘bits’ (chocolates, lollies, nuts, biscuits, the possibilities are huge) to an ice-​cream flavour of choice, smashing it together on a stone-​cold slab and serving it up as one magnificent entity. While cookie dough (particularly in the white chocolate chip ice-​cream) is a failsafe, my favourite is nutella and oreo in coconut ice-​cream. It’ll keep your mouth buzzing (possibility from the cavities) all night long.

This place takes you back to childhood. My Dad used to buy a tub of vanilla icecream, a topping and a few packs of lollies, normally clinkers and freckles and let us go nuts. Of course, this only happened on the days that my Mum was at work.
The best thing about Cold Rock is that the combinations are endless. I am no longer limited to vanilla icecream. Everytime I go there I try something new. They have somehow managed to get the ratio of icecream to lollies to icecream just right. The ice cream isn’t up to the same standards of Simmos, but with so much lollies it is not ovely noticeable.
My biggest peeve about Cold Rock is the price. It is over priced for how much you get.

I am a big sweet tooth. What is not to love about Cold Rock (well other than the price.) Lots of yummy icecream, with all the different chocolates and toppings you can think of. On Perth’s hot summer days, where possible, I grab myself a Cold Rock and go sit on the beach enjoying the seabreeze. I also take my nieces here on the holidays. It keeps my number one uncle status intact.

As a child this was my favourite ice-​cream store. It revolutionised ice-​cream for me, and to this day inspires my desert choices. The flavours they sell are fairly standard, my favourite being cookies and cream. And now here is where the best bit comes, you are able to pick from a selection of things such as, freddo frogs, nutella, or cookie dough (my choice). The list goes on and on, most sweet treats can be added to the ice-​cream. They give you one choice for free and then after that the extras are 70cents each.
Cookies and cream, with cookie dough! Oh My Gosh! It is amazing, imagine that as a 12 year old, it blows your mind. I still spend so long making my decisions, but cookies and cream with cookie dough always seems to win.
The prices aren’t too bad either, and in the middle of Hillary’s whats better than eating an ice-​cream by the harbour!

When I was younger and fatter than I am today, I used to prepare a rather ridiculous dessert for myself, as well as for anyone else who was willing to try it. I would take three or four large scoops of ice cream, add some crumbled-​up Delta Creams, a veritable handful of grated cooking chocolate, and a rather too liberal pour of Cottee’s chocolate topping, and then I would mix it all up with a fork and give myself a good old-​fashioned ice cream headache.
I may not do that anymore, but Cold Rock does, and while I’m not the sort of person to eat a lot of ice cream anymore there can be no doubt that the resultant dairy-​and-​confectionary mash-​up makes for a great treat. Try the cookies-​and-​cream ice cream with cookie dough and brownie through it. As my girlfriend, who adds Nutella to that aforementioned line-​up, puts it: «I don’t normally like desserts like mousse or ice cream, and would never order them on their own. But it’s different when there’s something solid in it. That’s why I love Cold Rock.»