Royal Copenhagen Ice Cream St Lucia

Feeling homesick? Going through a break-​up? Just feeling that’s it’s time for a sugary pick me up? Copenhagen Ice Cream in St Lucia has you covered.
This place is always swarming with students from the nearby colleges come 7pm, so it has a very friendly and happily feel about it. There’s a collection of tables outside and a very drool-​worthy selection of desserts available (think chocolate fudge brownie sundaes, rocky road sundaes, chunky monkey banana splits… the list goes on, and on, and on. Oh my). Or settle for a waffle cone to go, loaded with generous sized scoops with additional (and free!) wafers, syrups, nuts and sprinkles to boot.

So as you are probably well aware, Brisbane gets pretty darn hot on a summers day. And when you are student and saving money by living in a pretty shit house with no air-​conditioning this can be disgusting, sticky heat. Well on one such day I managed to drag myself from out of my house and venture to Hawken Village for a much needed snack to cool me down. Now I was going to settle for icy poles from the Foodworks but instead decided to splurge a little a treat myself to some of Royal Copenhagen’s ice cream.
Royal Copenhagen opened shop in St Lucia in 2010 to the delight of many locals. They also have a shop in the city that is well loved. The St Lucia store stokes the same great quality ice cream and gelato, with the awesome waffle cones. As well as this, they make a mean milkshake. They have a few seats available but I am more inclined to pick something up to go, and take it to the nearest park, hopefully before it melts all over me. Royal Copenhagen is a lovely addition to the Ville on Hawken Drive, a much loved food hub for students who live in the area.