It’s the ice cream that makes Ciao Ciao a delight
JUST because a place has the word “Italian†in the sign does not mean it is a grand place to treat yourself. This obvious fact hit me firmly when I turned into the Italian Supermarket at Tank Hill Muyenga and waltzed up to Ciao Ciao Italian Ice Cream
By E.Bazanye
JUST because a place has the word “Italian†in the sign does not mean it is a grand place to treat yourself. This obvious fact hit me firmly when I turned into the Italian Supermarket at Tank Hill Muyenga and waltzed up to Ciao Ciao Italian Ice Cream Snack Bar only to find that it looked just like the dining hall of my old secondary school.
Seriously. It had benches instead of chairs. It really looked like the mess.
Ciao Ciao is a smallish place squeezed in between the supermarket and the wall.
A narrow row of benches (I could not get over that. Benches!) leads up to a serving area in front. There you meet two women who preside over an array of ice cream buckets and, adjacent, a buffet laid out behind glass.
It was the usual buffet fare — rice, matooke, beef, chicken, potatoes and, to be honest, the food was really good.
But when I go out to eat, I do not like to find the same food I would have had if I had stayed in. I would really have liked something Italian and exotic, but well, that was my mistake for believing everything signs say.
Well, one thing was probably Italian: the ice cream.
You and I are familiar with the normal creamy, milky type but I have heard that Italy produces a different form of ice cream that is uniquely delightful.
After the boring food, I looked around and saw that most of the other patrons, the clusters of foreigners speaking German or Californian, were eating ice cream.
So we had some, I had the cherry flavour and my date had blueberry, and it was different from the usual. I thought asking the staff if this was the famous Italian-style ice cream of legend, but I remembered their stern, surly faces and decided to let it go, reminded, once again, of school.
The ice cream soon revealed itself to be a quickly acquired taste, which lead to this conclusion: Ciao Ciao’s food is mundane, so it is not the place to take yourself for a treat, unless you are going for their special ice cream, which is quite fun.
JUST because a place has the word “Italian†in the sign does not mean it is a grand place to treat yourself. This obvious fact hit me firmly when I turned into the Italian Supermarket at Tank Hill Muyenga and waltzed up to Ciao Ciao Italian Ice Cream Snack Bar only to find that it looked just like the dining hall of my old secondary school.
Seriously. It had benches instead of chairs. It really looked like the mess.
Ciao Ciao is a smallish place squeezed in between the supermarket and the wall.
A narrow row of benches (I could not get over that. Benches!) leads up to a serving area in front. There you meet two women who preside over an array of ice cream buckets and, adjacent, a buffet laid out behind glass.
It was the usual buffet fare — rice, matooke, beef, chicken, potatoes and, to be honest, the food was really good.
But when I go out to eat, I do not like to find the same food I would have had if I had stayed in. I would really have liked something Italian and exotic, but well, that was my mistake for believing everything signs say.
Well, one thing was probably Italian: the ice cream.
You and I are familiar with the normal creamy, milky type but I have heard that Italy produces a different form of ice cream that is uniquely delightful.
After the boring food, I looked around and saw that most of the other patrons, the clusters of foreigners speaking German or Californian, were eating ice cream.
So we had some, I had the cherry flavour and my date had blueberry, and it was different from the usual. I thought asking the staff if this was the famous Italian-style ice cream of legend, but I remembered their stern, surly faces and decided to let it go, reminded, once again, of school.
The ice cream soon revealed itself to be a quickly acquired taste, which lead to this conclusion: Ciao Ciao’s food is mundane, so it is not the place to take yourself for a treat, unless you are going for their special ice cream, which is quite fun.