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Esplanade Cafe

4.5 (4 reviews)

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12 years ago

Holy Jesus, they have good ice cream. Grab the best cone of your life, and burn it off on the esplanade.

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Urban Bubble

Urban Bubble

(5 reviews)

This place was truly amazing so many tasty flavours hard to pick but was very deliciousread more

No... I screw up my eyes a little. - It can't be!…read moreBubble tea? In Stirling?! 'Urban Bubble. Bubble tea and ice cream bar.' YES! - I did a little celebratory dance right there and then before proceeding to walk past on a daily basis like some sort of bubble tea maniac, checking for signs of an opening date. Finding their Facebook page a mere half an hour before they opened made for a quick run to town, excited to try Stirling's new bubble tea offering. My experience with bubble tea so far has been mixed. I find the quality and taste varies hugely depending on where you go. The strawberry milk tea from Tempo tea bar in Glasgow makes for a dreamy milkshake-like wonder and I've never been disappointed. Equally so, I've had chemically-tasting, watery or separating bubbles teas from several places now. So I was excited but, ultimately, prepared for disappointment. We were the first customers and I got to try the first bubble tea he'd ever made. We had quite a wait but we were excited to have a peek around. It's small with a cake counter at the front. (They stock the local Caledonia Cheesecake Company cakes!) They've a seriously impressive selection of ice cream (and perhaps some froyo too!) at the front, a slushie machine and electronic screens for menus. All sounding good! - But how did the bubble tea taste? As we were the first customers he gave us them for free owing to them essentially being practice drinks and the fact that we had waited for some time. They were watery and the flavour was weak. I think more mixture and perhaps a milk base is required. They didn't get it right first time but I'm so hopeful that I can come here for a great bubble tea soon as the mixture definitely tasted like the good kind. - No horrible chemical taste here! Also, I'm not a fan of tapioca boba so I was thrilled that they stock popping bubbles. The strawberry ones were delicious! I'm holding out on you, Urban Bubble!

Pokey Hat

Pokey Hat

(6 reviews)

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Great wee ice cream shop right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of Oban…read more My boyfriends sisters husband fancied an ice cream while out and about in Oban, so we stopped in here. He kept it simple and ordered just a plain soft serve, while the rest of us went with single cones of scooped ice cream. The boyfriend had mint chocolate chip and I went for the toffee fudge. Both delicious in their own rights, but I think next time I could go for a double. The shop is small, but there's just enough room to get in and get out. A small queue was formed because the day was super sunny and warm but the service was speedy and we got our ice creams and left. Reading Kate M.'s review, I now know that a pokey hat is a Scottish term for an ice cream cone, which is something new to me. I love learning little things like that. What a great little place.

Om Nom nom :-) we visit this shop every time we are in Oban, a pokey hat is a Scottish term for an…read moreice cream cone. My mum had a double cone of raspberry and coconut ice creams, my auntie Shirley went for coconut and pistachio ice creams, I had a single Turkish delight ice cream and the boy had white chocolate. The single cones were massive!!!!!! And the double cones were really generous. All our ice creams were served in lovely waffle cones. The ice cream is all made on the premises to,Italian recipes. I have one teeny tiny complaint and its just they had no Ferrero rocher ice cream as that one is the bomb! The coconut ice creams were delicious, they had a really good flavour and consistency, the raspberry tasted just like fresh raspberries in cream and the pistachio has a beautiful delicate flavour. My Turkish delight ice cream had chunks of frys Turkish delight in it and it was beautifully flavoured. The boys white choc ice cream was also delicately flavoured, I find a lot of white choc ice creams very sickly and the boy isn't a massive ice cream fan but we both love the white choc ice cram from here as it has a lovely subtle flavour :-) It's £2 for a single cone and £3 for a double, this is a really reasonable price for decent portions of delicious well made ice cream. If you are going to Oban you must pop the pokey hat on your visit list :-)

Esplanade Cafe - icecream - Updated May 2026

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