Entries by Mr. Parlour

One year later…

Happy birthday to us! Today marks one year since our first day serving ice cream, at the Accent Hardwood parking lot, just north of the Durham Farmers Market: We knew back then that we were making terrific ice cream, but we really had no idea if we’d sell any. Okay, we were encouraged by the […]

More Shout-outs, More Ice Cream

Our last blog post talked about how honored we are to connect with the local community by participating in nonprofit and charitable events. Of course, The Parlour a for-profit enterprise, and we’re also grateful for the relationships we’ve built with other local businesses. It would take a lot of posts to discuss every kind of interaction […]

Branching out

Our bus is often spotted outside of Motorco or Fullsteam, where we have our only two regularly-scheduled appearances (Sunday afternoons and Wednesday nights, respectively). We love those businesses, and we’re thrilled to be a staple of the Rigsbee Ave. food truck scene. But we also want to visit other neighborhoods (we are mobile after all), […]

Beer floats!

We’re trying a new new thing tonight. We’ll be at Fullsteam, but instead of bringing the truck, we’re just bringing a few flavors of ice cream to make floats with their beer, and probably some root beer too. We like to have Mondays off—well, “off”, since we usually take the time for cleaning and prep—so this […]