Dri Dri Gelato

The bf and I were en route to Charing X station after a long day dickin’ around in the sun. On passing Dri Dri we made an ‘about face’ and went in. They boast a handful of flavors and all of them sound delightful. I chose a dark chocolate sorbet (I think it had a fancier-​sounding name in French or Italian or something) and it was some of the best bittersweet loveliness I’ve ever had the pleasure of eating off of a small, brightly-​colored mini-​shovel. Imagine your favorite dark chocolate bar, but cold and wet and slightly melting. (No, it was really, really good!)
The bf chose salted caramel gelato; it, too, was amazing. Selfishly, I began, ahem, palate-​cleansing by taking a small bite of his between bites of mine. Boy, what a help!
The seating is minimal with three two-​top tables in all. It would be great if they could receive a permit to put a bench, or, hopefully, a table or two out front, so more could sit and enjoy before getting back on the pavement to Charing X.
All in all, grazie to you, Dri Dri!

I know ice-​cream and kettle chips aren’t the most sustainable of lunch time food-​stuffs but it I am confident that deep amongst the sugar and fat there must be some a 00.0001 percent of a key food-​group in there somewhere. If all else fails ice-​cream does contain water, which is the key to life itself, and that’s the excuse that works for me this sunny Friday when I find myself finally visiting Dri Dri’s pop up ice-​cream shop at St Martin’s Lane hotel.
The lovely Italian (of course he had to be) who served me actually makes these ice creams daily at their Portobello Road branch. He was so friendly, and pretty much let me sample every flavour in the shop. I rather embarrassingly had a clutch of ten plastic ice-​cream spoons in my hand at the end of the tasting. It was a bit like the sketch in Curb Your Enthusiasm where the lady holds up the ice-​cream shop line, tries twenty flavours and opts for vanilla. It wasn’t (quite) that bad, but I could have left satiated and not having paid for anything. I eventually chose the medium pot which was crammed full with three amazing sorbets. The extra dark chocolate, the pink grapefruit and the strawberry. These were amazing, as well the wonderful gelatos I sampled — from biscotti to salty caramel.
Back in the office and reading the flyer I picked up I am astounded to find out my gorgeous guilt ridden sorbets actually came with less guilt than expected. Apparently they are 0% fat. Should I ask for my money back?
Additionally the gelatos are allegedly lower in fat than other ice creams. Made with organic milk in store every day, they are the fresh prince of ice-​creams.
The pop up shop is open till the end of August. It has a boutique vibe and is beach themed with a few seats to eat in as there really aren’t many places to sit outside around St Martin’s Lane. Emjoy.