While the UWS is for eating and sleeping, Varick Street is for working and food trucks. Tons of food trucks. This one happens to purvey gourmet ice cream sandwiches. Beautiful.

Coolhaus serves up wildly creative create-your-own cookie/ice cream flavor combos for $6 a pop. Yes, it’s a bit steep, but this thing is a freakin’ meal replacement. It’s also fantastically indulgent in both calorie count and imagination. You could pair 2 lemon rosemary cookies with a heaping scoop of earl grey ice cream. Or if you require meat at all times, try some brown butter candied bacon ice cream on a brioche cookie. Yes, you heard me. There’s a meat lover ice cream sandwich. Go ahead and eat the wrapper while you’re at it (seriously… it’s edible!).

After deep introspection and deliberation, I finally went for the balsamic fig & mascarpone ice cream sandwiched between two potato chip/Skor toffee bar cookies. It was ridiculous. The salty-sweet balsamic reduction was perfectly swirled into the ultra-rich mascarpone ice cream, dotted with chewy fig chunks. The cookie had a great crunch and stood up like a pro to the fast-melting ice cream in the city heat. 

Check out Coolhaus’s site for their full menu and next location to get in on this crazy deliciousness.