Regaliz at the heladeria

Regaliz is Spanish for licorice - or liquorice as they spell it in the UK.

 I always search for licorice ice cream wherever we travel and have found it in Canada, England, France and Italy. In the US, the old Swensen's stores used to carry it.

The franchise store in Costa Mesa was bought by the ice cream maker Hans who still makes licorice ice cream. We always stop by when we're back in SOCal:


Today, I was able to locate an ice cream shop, or heladeria, in Madrid where it's on their permanent menu.





It'd down a little alley. It's also open from 10am to 1:30am!


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