Open again (Except Mondays)!

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Just a quick note to let everyone know that as of April 3rd—the 2-year anniversary of our shop’s original opening date—we are back in business in Downtown. We’ve got lots more seating, room for more flavors in our freezers, a new coffee station, and a new pastry display case.

For the time being, we’ve cut back down to six days a week in order to get up to speed on the new setup, train new and returning staff, and just have a little time to breathe before summer hits hard. So if you want to eat our ice cream on a Monday, stock up on pints beforehand, or find some of the other folks who carry it.

Soon we’ll be taking bookings for our Party Room and accepting special orders for ice cream cakes online. To find out more, subscribe to our email newsletter, follow us on social media, or just keep watching this space!

We’ve got some good news…and some bad news.

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Let’s start with the bad news first. Unfortunately, construction on our shop’s expansion is undergoing some major delays. Going through a brick wall in a multi-story building is pretty complicated. Since expanding the shop means cutting through a brick masonry wall, that also means finding a way to reinforce that wall and keep it holding up the building. The way to do that is to put in some steel beams and concrete footers under the floor, on firmly packed soil. Read more

Fall and Winter Hours!

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Hello, friends! Thanks to all of you for making this a great summer. Now that the weather’s cooling down, we’re switching to our fall hours. As of October 15th, our hours will be:

 

Monday through Thursday 2pm to 10pm

Friday and Saturday 12pm to 11pm

Sunday 12pm to 10pm

 

Once we’ve switched to our fall hours, we’ll be bringing back Sunday brunch and ice cream flights. We’ll be making facebook event pages for both brunch and flights, so you’ll always know when they’re happening! And we’ll also be adding more baked goods and hot drink specials in the next week or two, so come in for ganache hot chocolate, coconut cake, and more!

Fall updates

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Hi everyone! There’s a lot of new and exciting stuff happening in The Parlour world these days, and we thought it’d be easier to put it all together here instead of spreading it across a million billion tweets.

Location, location, location

Okay, we’ve been talking for a while about our plans to open a brick and mortar shop. And we know people are excited about it because a whole lot of y’all pitched in for kitchen equipment. Now that we’ve signed the lease and revealed the location to our Kickstarter backers, we’re excited to announce it to the whole wide internet: The Parlour will be located at 117 Market St. in Downtown Durham! Read more