Where To Find The Best Ice Cream In Amman Jordan

One benefit of Amman’s notoriously hot, dry summers is the city’s flourishing ice cream market. Offering everything from traditional to more experimental flavors, these are the best places to find the tastiest ice cream in Jordan’s capital.

Mr Lollies

Located on Rainbow Street, Mr Lollies offers customers a delightfully customisable lollipop experience. Choose your flavour of gelato, sorbet, or lollipop, then dunk it into your preferred dip, and cover in sprinkles if you are so inclined. Friendly, colorful, tasty, and refreshing, there’s nothing to dislike about this uplifting establishment.

Rainbow Street, Amman. +962 77 737 4007

Gerard Ice Cream

A popular gelateria on Rainbow Street, Gerard’s is famous among the city’s ice-cream lovers as a purveyor of high quality refreshments. Their chocolate-glazed ice cream cones bring a touch of class to the already mouth-watering array of frozen treats on offer here. Ice cream cones | © Larsinio/Wikicommons

Four Winters

Ice Cream Parlour, Ice Cream

Part-laboratory, part-ice cream shop, Four Winters is at the avant garde of the ice-cream art form, concocting unfathomable combinations of flavors thanks to their liquid nitrogen freezing techniques. Indeed, their manufacturing process is conducted live in store and is a spectacle in itself. Open until late, Four Winters is a must-see for practitioners and enthusiasts of the frozen arts.

Freeze Creamery

Down in Abdoun district, punters looking to cool their palates should head over to Freeze Creamery, the most popular ice cream joint in the area. Freeze Creamery offers customers an inspiring range of flavors and toppings, although the classics are what they do best. With colorful displays and excellent variety, Freeze Creamery’s ice creams are a perfect remedy to the afternoon heat.

Pinkberry

Pinkberry rides the global wave of frozen yoghurt mania, and their products are elegant, innovative, and most importantly, tasty. There’s an excellent selection of flavors on offer here, and the fruity toppings make for a healthy addition. Frozen Yoghurt | © Dave Herholz/Flickr

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Shaahin Pishbin

Shaahin was born in southeast England, and has mixed British and Iranian heritage. Spending many childhood summers in Tehran visiting family, he developed the outlook (and neuroses) of cultural comparatist from a young age - traits that have informed the trajectory of his adult life. Reading European and Middle Eastern Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford, and subsequently completing a Masters in modern Persian literature and Arabic, he has nurtured these interests which he hopes to advance with further graduate study. He has also taught English in Spain, travelled around much of South America, and studied in Tehran for a year, where he hopes to return in the coming months.