Gourmet Ice Cream Sundaes
As the dog days of summer set in, it’s an apt time to cool off with the season’s quintessential comfort food: ice cream sundaes. Filini Bar & Restaurant and Glazed & Infused are both offering elaborate, novel new takes on ice cream sundaes to help beat the summer heat.
Filini’s “Rad Blu For You” sundae is made with their exclusive gelato flavor designed in collaboration with vendor Angelo Gelato. It’s a white Marsala wine gelato infused with Sicilian lemons, oranges, and sponge cake crumble, compiled into a sundae with raspberry coulis, sliced almonds, and whipped cream. Other sundaes for summer include the S’More Please, made with vanilla gelato, milk chocolate sauce, graham crackers, and toasted marshmallows; the Filini Gold with salted caramel and vanilla gelato, caramel sauce, crushed almonds, and caramel popcorn; After Dark with black cherry and vanilla gelato, brownie pieces, rum-infused cherries, and chocolate sauce; Italian Sunrise with limoncello gelato and amaretti gelato, candied lemon, lemon zest, and crushed amaretti cookies; and Filini’s take on a banana split, featuring strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate gelato, bananas, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry.
Glazed & Infused is upping the ante on the cooling comfort food by heaping it with their signature doughnuts. Doughnut sundaes are now on deck for the season, available at the River North and Loop locations. Varieties are the Doughnut and Coffee Sundae, which combines a chocolate doughnut with coffee gelato, chocolate sauce, and pretzel streusel; and the Raspberry Old Fashioned Sundae, containing a raspberry old fashioned doughnut, lemon cream gelato, raspberry compote, and almond streusel. There’s also a build-your-own option, wherein you can select your own doughnut-gelato-toppings combinations.
Filini Bar & Restaurant
221 N. Columbus Drive, Chicago
(312) 477-0234
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Glazed & Infused
30 E. Hubbard Street, Chicago
(312) 226-5556
222 N. LaSalle Street, Chicago
(312) 226-5556
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