![]() Van Leeuwen is known nationally for creative seasonal and out-of-the-box limited-edition collaboration flavors such as Hidden Valley Ranch, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and BIGFACE Coffee Affogato in partnership with NBA All-Star Jimmy Butler. ![]() “It’s been so meaningful to see how warm the reception has been in Greenwich where Pete and I grew up, and we hope the community of Darien will be equally as excited for the good ice cream coming their way!” “We’re excited to grow our footprint in our home state with the opening of our store in Darien,” said Ben Van Leeuwen, co-founder and CEO. Popular vegan flavors made with oat and cashew milk, include Churros & Fudge, Peanut Butter Brownie Honeycomb, Strawberry Shortcake and more. The extensive menu features more than 30 signature flavors including Honeycomb, Pistachio (made with Pistachios sourced from Mount Etna in Sicily), Marionberry Cheesecake (made with vine-ripened berries from Oregon farm partner Stahlbush Island Farms), Praline Butter Cake and Earl Grey Tea (made with Rishi Tea), in addition to sundaes, housemade waffle cones, ice cream sandwiches, root beer floats, milkshakes and pints to-go. It’s not “vegan ice cream,” it’s good ice cream that happens to be vegan! Van Leeuwen’s goal - to make good ice cream that makes you feel good - also extends to its vegan options, which are made with simple recipes and choice ingredients. Its French-style ice cream (made with more than double the amount of egg yolks as standard ice cream) quickly gained a loyal following, and Van Leeuwen has since expanded into storefronts in New York, California, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas, as well as grocery stores across the country, including Stop & Shop and Whole Foods. Not long after, they enlisted co-founder Laura O’Neill and Van Leeuwen was born in the form of a yellow scoop truck on the streets of NYC in 2008. His travels inspired the idea for an ice cream truck serving good ice cream. With the money he made, Ben went backpacking around Asia and Europe, and found himself most excited by the food he discovered and the revelation that good food was more accessible in other parts of the world. The brothers rented a Good Humor truck and drove it all around Greenwich for two summers. The launch also marks a return to its roots for co-founders Ben and Pete Van Leeuwen who are Fairfield County natives and whose ice cream journey began here twenty years ago.īen and Pete became ice cream entrepreneurs back in 2002. The Darien store is the brand’s second location in Connecticut, and follows on the heels of its Greenwich opening in October 2022 - its first suburban scoop shop. © 2022 BizWest Media LLC.Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, the nationally beloved brand known for its made-from-scratch dairy and vegan ice creams, will open a scoop shop in Darien on Thursday, April 27. This article was first published by BizWest, an independent news organization, and is published under a license agreement. The company plans to open a second Colorado location in Denver this year. “From the start, the Van Leeuwen mission has been to bring our guests good ice cream that makes them feel good, and we are looking forward to spreading that goodness to Boulder, a place filled with so much creativity and beauty.” Selfishly, we cannot wait to hike off the scoops we’re going to be eating on Mount Sanitas,” Van Leeuwen founder and CEO Ben Van Leeuwen said in the release. “We are so happy to bring Van Leeuwen to Colorado and serve good ice cream in one of the most beautiful places in the country. ![]() ![]() Van Leeuwen’s menu features more than 30 flavors made in the French style with more than double the amount of egg yolks as standard ice cream, according to a company news release. To celebrate the grand opening of the new shop at 1750 29th St., the company is offering $1 scoops of ice cream all day on Aug. Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, an expanding chain of ice cream shops that began in a New York City truck, is opening its first Colorado outpost in Boulder.
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