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Four Winters is now opened on Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City
Ice cream chain opens fi rst
East Coast location in LIC
BY JENNA BAGCAL
jbagcal@qns.com
@jenna_bagcal
Get ready to sample the latest off erings
in tasty food science at a new Long Island
City ice cream shop.
International ice cream company Four
Winters opened its fi rst east coast location
at 47-38 Vernon Blvd. Founded
in London in 2013, Four Winters has
become known for its hand-churned, liquid
nitrogen-mixed fl avors and sustainable,
locally sourced ingredients.
Th e new shop replaces Th e Standing
Room comedy club and Sage coff ee,
which both closed in June 2018.
Beginning with a liquid base, each fl avor
is fl ash-frozen using liquid nitrogen
at -196 degrees. Th e process creates fresh,
creamy ice cream with bold fl avors.
Entrepreneurs Omar Alkhawaja
and Zeid Zabian, along with Zaynab
Abdullah founded the company six years
ago. Abdullah, who is a graduate of the
Institute of Culinary Education is the
head of product development and U.S.
operations for the company.
Th e Four Winters team gains inspiration
for new fl avors on seasonal produce,
working closely with local farmers, traveling
to new cities and pulling elements
from their Middle Eastern roots. Since its
inception, the company established locations
in Jordan, Egypt and, most recently,
Los Angeles in 2018.
One of Four Winters’ signature fl avors
includes Knafeh, named for the classic
Middle Eastern dessert. A sweet cream
base is combined with kataifi dough and
simple syrup topped with pistachios.
Cereal Crunch combines a vanilla base
with sweetened cereal clusters and salted
caramel, while Fudge Brownie is made
with a chocolate base, fudgy brownies and
caramel sauce. Th e following is a list of the
company’s other signature and seasonal
fl avors. Seasonal fl avors are marked with
an asterisk (*):
C3 Dough: brown sugar base mixed
with chocolate chip cookie dough and
chocolate sauce
Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter: vegan
chocolate base with peanut nougatine and
vegan peanut butter sauce
Brown Sugar Speculoos: brown sugar
base with cookie butter and crushed speculoos
cookies topped with house-made
chocolate sauce
Key Lime Pie*: sweet cream base with
house-made lime curd swirls and salted
graham cracker streusel
S’mores*: brown sugar base with chocolate
sauce and salted graham cracker
streusel
Mango Chili Sorbet*: topped with fresh
mango and tajin
Customers can also make custom fl avors
with all available bases, sauces and
mix-ins including brownies, sprinkles,
cornfl ake crunch and toasted kataifi , a
shredded almond and walnut pastry.
MESH Architectures designed Four
Winters, which features a bright, open
kitchen where patrons can see the liquid
nitrogen tanks and watch ice cream making
in action. Th e eatery’s dining area has
exposed brick walls, natural wood seating
and a custom mural of the Manhattan and
LIC skylines with changing LED lights to
refl ect the changing seasons.
Four Winters is open seven days a week
from noon to 11 p.m. For more information
visit their website or call 718-433-
4657. Follow Four Winters on Instagram
at @fourwinters.
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