Decadent Desserts: Sedutto - Cream di Eleganza Ice Cream Parlor Our Coverage Sponsored by Fresh Origins
Owner Richard Cohen
Eat the amazing banana split for dinner!
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Remember those awesome flying saucers you used to see as a kid at Carvel? We haven't seen them in years because where is there anything like that in Manhattan. We have eaten an awful lot over the past 5 and a half years at restaurants, but we started getting tired of eating our dinner. Wouldn't it be better to just skip dinner entirely and eat many courses of ice cream? Especially on a hot day? Probably every kid dreams of that, but as an adult, you can do it. (Not every day though!)
In our Northeast climate, we are at peak season to do so, and to that end please meet our new friend, Richard Cohen. Richard has been the owner of Sedutto for the past seven years, and Sedutto is the very first ice cream parlor ever to be featured on Whom You Know. These are not flying saucers, but they are similar and they hit the spot.
We first ate an amazing Rum Raisin ice cream cone. The sugar cones are total quality at Sedutto and stand up to the heat and weight of the equally superb ice cream. We would eat an ice cream cone at Sedutto every day if we were not concerned about waistline expansion! It was terrific and that Rum Raisin flavor was terrific.
Did you know there is such a thing as wine ice cream?
We didn't, but we know now thanks to Richard, and know that it is better when you add chocolate to it. We'd highly recommend that Chocolate Cabernet! It covers two of the major food groups: wine and chocolate.
Definitely the best thing to eat at Sedutto is Richard's ice cream. The packaged items in the freezer are good, but this banana split absolutely rules and is the quintessential piece de resistance in the Cream di Eleganza Ice Cream Parlor! By the way, the Sedutto brand is named after a family and is originally from Staten Island. Sedutto has been a New York tradition since 1922. The Sedutto we are covering is located on the Upper East side of Manhattan at 1498 First Ave between 78th and 79th, and it is totally independent from the original, and Richard Cohen acquired it in 2007.
We can't remember the last time we had a banana split! It made us truly nostalgic to see it and eating it was a dream! Ours was made with going from left to right: Pistachio, Strawberry and Chocolate. The whipped cream, nuts, cherries, chocolate sauce and of course banana were totally classic and perfect. When was the last time you had a banana split? Isn't it time to have another?
Sedutto also offers hard and soft yogurts and no sugar ice creams if you are interested in those. Peachy Deegan is interested in both sugar and fat, in moderation of course, and we ate ice cream.
We also tried the Coconut Bliss and liked the chocolate bits in it!
Visit Sedutto this summer for your ice cream fix!
