“We both had an affinity for coming out here,” Petroff says, “because of L.A.'s amazing weather, the produce, the food and a weirdness - like the weirdness in New York - that we appreciate.” (Expect some unicorns as part of the design.) The 1,500-square-foot store - the biggest Big Gay Ice Cream yet - will be designed by L.A.-based David Hertz FAIA and the Studio of Environmental Architecture. Quint and Petroff, who have two stores in Manhattan, have finalized the lease on what was formerly Anson’s Eatery, a sandwich shop that moved down the street.
Located on 9th Street, it’s in the burgeoning neighborhood that now centers around the newly opened Ace Hotel on Broadway. Hello, Speculoos soft-serve, Salty Pimp chocolate-dipped ice cream cones, Newyorkina paletas and ginger-curry milkshakes.Īfter two successful Los Angeles pop-ups in the Big Gay Ice Cream truck, which drew throngs of fans, owners Douglas Quint and Bryan Petroff are opening their first ice cream parlor outside of New York.
New York’s Big Gay Ice Cream is opening shop in downtown Los Angeles this spring.
