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Beat the heat with Wanderlust Creamery’s travel-inspired ice cream flavors
Wanderlust has multiple locations throughout Southern California with another one in the works.
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Local ice cream chain Wanderlust Creamery offers a sweet relief from this week’s sweltering temperatures. From ube to mango sticky rice, its unique signature and seasonal flavors can be found across Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Founder and chef Adrienne Borlongan sat down with Austin Cross, who hosts AirTalk every Friday, to discuss Wanderlust’s travel-inspired flavors.
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About the owner
Borlongan initially thought that she would be a nurse. But after spending two years completing nursing prerequisites, she pivoted to a degree in food science and worked as a bartender for almost a decade.
Adrienne Borlongan, founder and chef of Wanderlust Creamery, is also a food scientist.
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One day, her roommate brought home an ice cream maker.
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“And that kind of just snowballed into this crazy ice cream obsession,” Borlongan recalled.
She founded Wanderlust with her partner Jon-Patrick Lopez in 2015.
What sets the store apart? Its flavors
Wanderlust’s flavors come from places Borlongan has either traveled to or has on her travel bucket list.
Many of the flavors are inspired by Borlongan’s Filipino-American heritage, including a best-selling ube malted crunch. It also features flavors like Ashta, a clotted cream from the Middle East.
The ultimate experience, according to the chef
Wanderlust Creamery is known for flavors from all over the world.
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Try as many samples as your heart desires. Wanderlust’s staff are trained to guide anyone through the flavors and talk you through options before you make a decision.
What’s next for Wanderlust?
Borlongan is working on innovating new flavors for the summer, including an ice cream based on Swedish candies. She’s trying to whip up a mixture that’s able to keep the gummies chewy while frozen in ice cream.
Wanderlust is also opening a new location in San Diego.
Shop details
- Wanderlust’s ice cream has less air compared to traditional ice cream, making it rich and creamy.
- Its seasonal menu items include Buontalenti, honey butter corn, Kaya toast, white peach verbena, Icelandic milk chocolate and Ashta.
- The local ice cream shop has locations in Atwater Village, Fairfax, Pasadena, Sawtelle, Venice, Irvine, Costa Mesa and Torrance.
Menu items we tried
- Ube malted crunch (malted milk, malted milkballs, and ube)
- Stick rice and mango (rice milk, coconut cream, salt, Alphonso mangoes)
- White peach verbena (peach, lemon verbena)
How to visit
- Address: 3134 Glendale Blvd., Atwater Village
- Hours: every day from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m.
- Cost: A single scoop costs $7.50, a tasting trio costs $8.75, a double costs $10.50 and pints cost $13.
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