Award-winning, real dairy & vegan ice cream, sorbet.
Seasonal Menu
Classic
Salted caramel & peanut butter
Cherry sorbet
Chocolate
Malted coconut milk
Chocolate, ginger & rosemary
Specials
Roasted banana & cookie pie - non-vegan
White chocolate & chai sorbet - non-vegan
Blackberry & apple crumble - non-vegan
Brown sugar on porridge
Raspberry, rose & chocolate stracciatella
Blackberry &liquorice
Smoked almond & cherry
Photo: Emily Dennison
Our story
Making small batch, inventively flavoured real dairy ice cream, sorbet and vegan ice cream since 2010, Ginger’s was started as a passion project by Claire Kelsey, then a chef and food stylist, with no other aim than to refurbish an old ice cream van into something quirky and useful.
The rough idea was to perhaps sell different produce throughout the year, but seeing as it was an ice cream van, she started with that and didn’t move on. Some of our most bonkers and delicious flavours were conceived then, and are still best sellers today like ‘Marmalade On Toast’, ‘Olive Oil & Sea Salt’, and ‘Chorlton Crack’ - salted caramel peanut butter.
The blank canvas of milk and sugar provides endless possibility for invention, and 10 years later with several British Street Food Awards under our belt, a city centre ice cream bar, and our own recipe book “MELT” published by Simon & Schuster, quality, innovation and creativity are still the cornerstones of our success.
Photo: Emily Dennison
“Bloody hell, these are fabulous. Exotic flavours, tightly bundled together, no sloppiness or sickly after-taste.”
— Manchester Confidential Food critic, Jonathan Schofield
What we do
Markets & Festivals
You’ll regularly find us at markets across the North West, as well as at some of the UK’s leading summer festivals.
Weddings & Parties
It’s always an honour to be booked for ice cream duty on someone's big day. We can help you celebrate your occasion in style.
Corporate Hire
We work with a range of businesses, offering bespoke flavours, customised branding, and workplace visits from our vans!
“Manchester’s ice-cream queen.”
— The Metro
Visit the parlour
Our shop/parlour (call it what you will, we like “Chorlton Crack den”!) is open from 10.30am – 6pm, Monday – Saturday, (11am – 5pm Sunday) on the first floor of Affleck’s Palace in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
