Ron and I have seen the classic yellow Van Leeuwen ice cream truck parked all over Manhattan (Greene St, 23rd St, 14th St), but it wasn't until we visited Jenny & Erik in Greenpoint that we had a taste of this highly-rated ice cream. The storefront is really charming and the flavors are unique and natural. Jenny had the strawberry which was delicious and very natural tasting--the color wasn't even pink, but a rose-tinted cream. I ordered what I thought to be cinnamon, but received something closer to Red Hot-flavored ice cream. I passed it around for confirmation-- All agreed, it definitely tasted like Red Hots. Unsatisfied, I ate almost the whole thing anyway because I wanted to eat the sugar cone. Even though our first taste of Van Leeuwen ice cream wasn't as great as we had hoped, it will be hard to resist the call of the ice cream truck as hot summer days approach.
