This Saturday was a rough one for me which means Christel wanted to cheer me up with ice cream!
LOCATION - 832 W RANDOLPH ST., CHICAGO, IL 60607
Now usually cheer up ice cream consists of an attempt for banana split but we've had no luck with finding them nearby anywhere when we're looking for them so we've found alternatives. This time we decide to go to Bombobar based off of some cool things we saw on Instagram. Bombobar promotes their decked out hot chocolate which includes a mini donut and a biscotti and some whipped cream - the works. However, I'm not a chocolate fan in general and not a fan of cocoa or milk so hot chocolates are not for me. Christel has a distinction of not like hot chocolate, only chocolate milk so again, Bombobar is almost wasted on us.
Our saving grace and our reason for going was for the Bombolato, vanilla gelato made from scratch there at Bombobar, sandwiched in the middle of one of their famous bombolonis (an Italian hole-less donuts), covered in salted caramel and fruity pebbles. Basically, sugar on sugar with more sugar in the middle.
My favorite part of this dessert (or breakfast if you really wanna roll that way) was the gelato inside. It was a really nice consistency, had great vanilla flavor, and was creamy but not too creamy. I would go back for the gelato and skip all the extra sugar (maybe keep the fruity pebbles...). Christel's favorite part was the donut - a light texture, not too sugary but still a great flavor without being too dense.
Since the hotter chocolate is what Bombobar is known for we got a lot of interested looks from incoming customers and had several people ask us what we ordered. This doesn't seem to be a well known choice but I'm pretty glad we tried it. Honestly, the salted caramel was the only aspect that was very overwhelming and I tried to switch it out for something else but that wasn't doable. I don't mind caramel but it got into everything and pushed the sugar over the top. We talked about it and maybe next time we'd order it without caramel if Bombolatos were the goal, otherwise I would go for gelato and Christel would go for the bomboloni instead. No hotter chocolate for us - even for the insta.