Anyone found REAL soft-serve ice cream or frozen yogurt in London???

All I really want in the world right now is a proper chocolate soft-serve ice cream cone with chocolate sprinkles.... anyone know where in London I can found one?

(That flake stuff at the ice cream trucks is DISGUSTING and NOT ice cream!)

Not soft serve but the best ice cream I've had in London was from Marine Ices:

http://www.marineices.co.uk/index.html

Costco has very good vanilla and chocolate soft serve ice cream, but it's outside of London and you need a membership! It really is the best.

Another place I've found with real soft-serve ice cream is Toby's Carvery, strangely. It's very good.

As for frozen yogurt, there's a few nice places. Yog is a good one, but I've seen some others. It really tastes like yogurt though, unlike the American variety - but it is lovely.

Seriously you dont like British soft serve?? The only downside (I see) to it, is that Margret Thatcher helped create it..

Back home I only ever had Mr Softee or Carvel as everything else was sub-par.... I guess spending summers in the UK I have a different appreciation of British Soft Serve....

Seriously you dont like British soft serve?? The only downside (I see) to it, is that Margret Thatcher helped create it..

Back home I only ever had Mr Softee or Carvel as everything else was sub-par.... I guess spending summers in the UK I have a different appreciation of British Soft Serve....

It's okay, and sometimes I'm in the mood for it, but I definitely miss the nice soft serve from home...

What I could go for is a proper American milkshake. Thick and ice creamy served in a metal container. I tried one at gourmet Burger and it just didn't do it for me. Oh that and a dairy queen hot fudge sundae. I am so disappointed McDonald's don't have them.

My grand daughter bought a milkshake last year on her visit here.  That was the first time I realized that a milkshake here is just milk sorta shaken.  She thought they forgot the ice cream part of it. 
I make my own now in my blender.  All my UK inlaws absolutely LOVE them! They had never heard of a THICK shake before.

When you say "soft serve" are you referring to what DW calls "custard"? That awful stuff that they pipe?

All I really want in the world right now is a proper chocolate soft-serve ice cream cone with chocolate sprinkles.... anyone know where in London I can found one?

(That flake stuff at the ice cream trucks is DISGUSTING and NOT ice cream!)

AMEN!!!

I'd been needing my favorite "vanilla cone, rainbow sprinkles" and happened to come across an ice cream truck. I told her, vanilla cone, no flake, but instead can you put those sprinkles that you show are on the sundaes? she said and did i want the chocolate fudge too. I looked at her like she had two heads LOLOL.

And then...I tore into it...and just about cried.

The McDs shakes are the closest things I can find to ok but what is WITH filling it only 2/3rds of the way??!

I think the closest I got to actual soft serve was at the shore last year.  I'm resigned to making my own icecream in general but soft serve...oh how I miss you.

When you say "soft serve" are you referring to what DW calls "custard"? That awful stuff that they pipe?

Soft Serve like whats used for a 99 Flake or Mr Whippy

Soft Serve like whats used for a 99 Flake or Mr Whippy

But you can get a 99 with any kind of ice cream, the flake in it makes it a 99 not the type of ice cream. You can have it with scooped ice cream or piped.

Mr Whippy is what DW calls "custard" in NJ though - to me that is "fake" ice cream, as someone mentioned, invented when someone realised they could pump loads of air into ice cream and make twice the profit.

But you can get a 99 with any kind of ice cream, the flake in it makes it a 99 not the type of ice cream. You can have it with scooped ice cream or piped.

Mr Whippy is what DW calls "custard" in NJ though - to me that is "fake" ice cream, as someone mentioned, invented when someone realised they could pump loads of air into ice cream and make twice the profit.

Agreed!  Mr Whippy (and others that sell that kind) are awful!    Nasty!

Not all ice cream wagons are created equal here, because you do find good ones that don't have that vile stuff.  I don't know what you find in London, but up here we sometimes get one that sells the Yorkshire Dales ice cream (made in Wales  ).  Or further south the ones with the Cornish ice cream are nice.  But Mr Whippy?  To be avoided at all costs.

But you can get a 99 with any kind of ice cream, the flake in it makes it a 99 not the type of ice cream. You can have it with scooped ice cream or piped.

Mr Whippy is what DW calls "custard" in NJ though - to me that is "fake" ice cream, as someone mentioned, invented when someone realised they could pump loads of air into ice cream and make twice the profit.

I thought custard what that nasty liquid stuff poured over really dry cakes? Ive never heard the term of 'custard' being referred to soft ice cream before and I lived in NY & Philly, which borders NJ (and a lot of people I associated with in Philly were from Jersey)

This is soft serve:

Whippy ingredients :

Reconstituted skimmed milk, sugar, vegetable fat, wheat flour, skimmed milk powder, dextrose, cocoa butter, fat reduced cocoa powder, cocoa mass, emulsifiers (E471, E322, E442, soya lecithin), whole milk powder, salt, wheat fibre, stabiliser (E401), colour (E150b), flavouring, whey solids.

I love the damned things though

Princesslemons: thanks for the suggestion, which Toby's Carvery? looks like there are a few in London...

Tykeman: frozen custard is not soft-serve ice cream, it is similar to it but made with eggs - also mr whippy is NOT NOT NOT soft-serve ice cream, soft-serve ice cream is made with milk and sugar and does NOT have ingredients like vegetable fat and flour

Sonofasailor: thank you for justifying my instinctual gag-inducing revulsion to flake/ mr whippy/ whatever-it-is-that-isn't-ice-cream-that-comes-from-the-trucks-in-a-cone-and-tastes-like-s*** -- it IS s***!

Seems like from the responses that I'm kind of out of luck - will have to wait for a trip home 

Oh, and Kerri - that picture is making me sad/hungry, it's exactly what I want!