Jannettas, St Andrews

During the summer holidays when I was at my grandparents' house, my granny showed me a Times article about the 10 coolest ice cream parlours in Britain. The number one place was not, as you might expect, London based, but Jannettas in St Andrews! So, despite the sub zero temperatures during my visit, we had to pay it a visit.

It's a family run ice cream parlour with a friendly atmosphere - lots of newspaper cuttings, postcards and pictures on the walls, and they had already made it look Christmassy with lots of baubles.

Christopher had been before on a "hot" (for St Andrews!) summer day, and apparently the queue went right out of the door! Even though there wasn't a queue on the cold November day we were there, there was still a huge range of ice cream flavours. I took some photos on my phone to try and get them all in - apologies for the poor photo quality!!

I really liked the way they had seasonal flavours like Mince Pie and and Christmas Pudding, and traditional Scottish flavours like Cranachan and Scottish Tablet. I decided to go for one scoop of Scottish Tablet as I had read great things about it online, and one scoop of Nutella, as I can never ever resist Nutella!

I went for a tub as I'm not the biggest fan of cones, but if you are, look at the cool sprinkle covered ones you can get! Firstly, I loved the "B Janetta" emblazoned wafer - light yet buttery and perfect for scooping up the ice cream. Secondly...the ice cream. It was, without a doubt, the best ice cream I have ever had (it even beats Heston's salted caramel popcorn ice cream!). So often ice cream doesn't taste very strongly of whatever flavour it professes to be, but both of these scoops packed a punch in the flavour department. The Nutella was just what you'd expect - nutty, chocolatey and deliciously rich, but the biggest triumph for me was the Scottish tablet. As Christopher said when he tried it, you could even somehow taste the texture of the tablet, even in the creamy ice cream - that sweet sugary grittiness (for want of a better word) that characterises it!

Christopher had one scoop of White Chocolate Vanilla Pod, and one scoop of Oreo (a close third choice for me) both of which were also intensely flavoured and moreish

At £2.90 for 2 generous scoops and a wafer it was very reasonably priced, too!

An indulgent snack for any time of year, even in hat and scarf weather! Also they make ice cream cakes for Christmas - a perfect alternative for anyone (sensible) who doesn't like Christmas Cake! Check out their website here