Duck Island Ice Cream | Ponsonby
About
Duck Island started with a bold idea on the first day of winter in 2015 — handmade ice cream in Hamilton, of all places. The doubters didn’t last long. Now Auckland has four locations to enjoy their boundary-pushing flavours made from locally sourced, fresh ingredients. The fairy bread flavour — hundreds and thousands on buttered white bread reimagined as ice cream — is a certified Kiwi classic, and the salted caramel and cacao crumb is not to be missed. A genuinely special ice cream experience.
While Duck Island is available in selected New World supermarkets, visiting one of their scoop stores is a completely different experience — the full range of creative flavours, and ice cream sandwiches! Worth seeking out the real thing.
Duck Island Ponsonby is everything a great ice cream shop should look like — a blush pink open storefront framed by a neon sign, yellow striped umbrellas and lush greenery spilling onto the street. Tucked next to the beautiful Miller Road Fragrance Studio on Ponsonby Road, it’s the kind of spot that stops you in your tracks. Order the fairy bread for the full Kiwi childhood hit, or go straight for the salted caramel and cacao crumb if you know what’s good for you. Milkshakes, sundaes and floats also available for those who can’t choose just one thing.
