Ice Cream Parlours
Shepherds at Hay-on-Wye
9 High Town, Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire HR3 5AE
Tel: 01981 550716
OPENING HOURS
Monday to Friday: 9.30 am to 5.30pm
Saturday: 9.30am to 6.00pm
Sunday: 10.30am to 5.30pm
Closed Christmas Day - and sometimes on Boxing Day
During Hay Festival we stay open till 9.00pm and in the summer holidays till 6.00pm
Shepherds in Hereford
22 Widemarsh Street, Hereford, HR4 2EP
Tel: 01432 266444
OPENING HOURS
Monday to Saturday: 9.00am - 5.30pm
Sunday: 11.00am - 4.00pm
Ice Cream
Our ice-cream parlours are the best places place to discover the delights of Shepherds Ice Cream. In our 16 flavour cabinets the turnover is fast, the ice cream is at its freshest and flavours change from day to day.
All year round you will find firm favourites like vanilla, toffee and fudge,
choc mint chip, amarena cherry yoghurt, mokka, banana toffee crunch, and
chocolate.
Alongside these we keep a changing range of flavours that might include ginger, coconut, amaretti and marsala, coffee and walnut, pistachio, stracciatella, pannacotta, almond praline, rum and raisin, or orange and cointreau.
And you will probably find something exotic like cardamom and lavender, blackcurrant cheese cake, rose, liquorice, mango and chilli, chocolate and chilli, or chocolate hazelnut.
Fruit flavoured ice-creams like strawberry, tayberry, damson and blackcurrant, are made from our own purees. They come in with the season - and go out when we run out of fruit!
In the summer you'll find two or three fruit ices made with our own spring water and no milk at all: blackcurrant with fresh mint, lemon, strawberry, mango and passion fruit, peach, pear, cider apple, or orange and cardamom.
In the autumn and winter there will be less fruit ices but there are seasonal compensations like rhubarb crumble, hazelnut, marron glace, Christmas pudding, or fig and brandy.
Ice-cream is available to eat-in or take-away. Or combine it with whipped cream, fruit, toppings and sauces to make extravagant sundaes, whip it up with milk to make refreshing shakes, or served with hot waffles for delicious desserts.
We also sell family sized packs of ice cream and handmade ice cream desserts and cakes to take home. The ice cream cakes are layered with sponge and mixed with whipping cream so that they can be cut straight from the freezer and make an ideal birthday or anniversary cake.
Other things...
We also serve pannini, sandwiches and top-notch coffee made with Fairtrade beans from South Wales roasters, Ferraris. There are home made cakes from Kate Gladwyn and in the winter-months ice-cream maker Alan turns his hand to producing delicious vegetable soups.
Ask them...
'...the yummiest ice-cream you'll ever taste' - children's author
Jacqueline Wilson in The Guardian
'...a Hay day wouldn't feel right without sampling damson, tayberry
or
ginger ice cream at Shepherds' - Essentials Magazine
'...their ice-cream has a translucent creaminess that puts you in mind
of
traditional Italian ices' - Celia Dodd, The Independent
'...sensational ice-cream' - Winner's Dinners, The Sunday Times
Selected in
'The best ice-cream parlours around Britain' - Jenni
Muir, The Week
In the past year we have supported the following: Hay on Wye Fringe Busy Bees, Clifford Presteigne Electric bike race Hay on Fire Macmillan Renton Raffle prizes for local schools and OAP clubs
Useful website links...
Hereford Tourist Board (www.visitherefordshire.com)
Hay-on-Wye (official website): www.hay-on-wye.co.uk
Heart of England Fine Food (www.heff.co.uk)
Ice Cream Alliance (www.ice-cream.org)
© 2008 Shepherds Ice Cream (Juliet Noble & Martin Orbach)