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Editor’s note: This is portion of our series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we volition connection our opinions connected the champion that Colorado has to connection for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. (We’ll besides fto you successful connected immoderate hidden gems.)
The archetypal clip I noticed Nuggs Ice Cream Shop, I chuckled astatine the evident weed notation (i.e., nuggets of cannabis flower) and noted however its red-and-white ceramic gathering sat conscionable eastbound of a marijuana dispensary.
Years later? It’s the lone sanction for crystal pick successful my family, contempt the proliferation of high-quality, nostalgic and fancy crystal pick joints successful the metro area. My 9-year-old craves Nuggs’ instrumentality connected the Michigan-born Blue Moon spirit — a kid-friendly, indiscriminate changeable of Smurfiness (but the ingredients are a secret) — and my 4-year-old craves crystal pick successful general. What amended spot to get it whilst people-watching astatine this colorful (although not overly gritty) spot astatine 5135 E. Colfax Ave.?
Nuggs opened successful 2014, the aforesaid twelvemonth that cannabis went recreational successful Colorado, but owners Chris and Nick O’Sullivan had been serving toothsome barbecue since 1998 via their Brothers BBQ restaurants. Part of Nuggs’ lore is that the brothers headed to Florida to instrumentality ice-cream-making classes earlier returning to peddle their own, handmade versions successful Denver.
In summation to 28 flavors successful the acold cases, you tin bid the accustomed suspects: crystal pick cakes, iced Americanos, elephantine cocoa spot cookies, sundaes and ice-cream sandwiches. The stars of people are the crystal pick flavors, which person a hearty consciousness of wit astir themselves; deliberation Olde English Vanilla (yes, similar the malt liquor); Tiki Torch Toasted Coconut; Pablo’s Danger Monkey Coffee; and Heartbreak Cream.
Like a brewery, they’re inactive spinning retired adjacent much honed, seemingly niche flavors that everyone and their canine should try. Palisade Peach, get successful my belly!
Nuggs Ice Cream Shop, astatine 5135 E. Colfax Ave., is arsenic artful and agleam arsenic its flavors are heavy and sweet. (John Wenzel, The Denver Post)Along with the standbys — I highly urge smashing a scoop of basal cocoa against Brotherfinger (peanut food with candy barroom chunks) — they’ve got selections escaped of dairy, gluten, soy, ovum and nut. Parking tin beryllium iffy connected weekends erstwhile folks flood the adjacent pubs for game-day, but if you’re feeling similar a hermit, Nuggs besides offers DoorDash delivery.
And since this is Colorado, it’s unfastened year-round for those temperate and cold-weather cravings, which I’m definite my household is not unsocial successful having. Nuggs’ lone failing is that it’s not located straight adjacent to our house. We’ve learned to forgive them for that.
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