ICE CREAM

Wasabi offers five different exotic ice creams including plum ice cream, ginger ice cream and red bean ice cream. At Broussard's, the Profiteroles au Chocolate Marion stuff vanilla ice cream into Italian puff pastries and top them with chocolate brandy sauce and almonds. Crepes ‡ La Cart offers three ice cream crepes including a rum raisin ice cream crepe that comes with vanilla ice cream, rum, chantilly cream, raisins and coconut. Haagen Dazs not only offers all the ice cream a kid could want, but also a drink for grown ups called the Baristo. It's a frosty blend of light ice cream and espresso that flavored with mocha, coffee or dulce de leche.

The Cookie Doughlicious at Hershey's Ice Cream Parlor in Covington is a combination of vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips and chunks of cookie dough. Mojo's Frozen Custard offers gourmet ice cream made with the finest ingredients. At Adobe Cantina, the fried ice cream is a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream with crunchy corn flakes, cinnamon and sugar whole-wheat chips fried on the outside. Flip Flop and Fly, a reverse root beer float with a dash of root beer gelato, is only one of many creations at Sophie's Gelato. The Tchoupitoulas at Creole Creamery is a monstrous sundae full of eight scoops of ice cream and eight toppings of your choice served in grand fashion with whipped cream and cherries. Ben and Jerry's soothes all tensions with their Chocolate Therapy, a blend of chocolate ice cream with chocolate cookies and swirls of chocolate pudding. The fried ice cream and banana flauta at Vera Cruz is topped with strawberries and chocolate sauce. Deanie's Seafood calls their Nectar Soda Float a New Orleans "original." Ice cream floats can also be found at The Grocery.