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Travel Channel Features North End’s Italian Ice and Gelato

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Bobby Eustace from Polcari’s Coffee serves up Italian Ice to the Travel Channel’s Andrew Zimmem who then heads over to Caffe Paradiso to see Antoinette and Adrianna DeStefano. (Watch the full clip.)

Also, see Maria’s Pastry in a separate Travel Channel clip with the Top 5 Highlights in Boston.

H/T to Matt Black for emailing us the link.

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One Reply to “Travel Channel Features North End’s Italian Ice and Gelato”

  1. Here in the North End, we call it “slush” – the best!! Maybe it’s something in the old bucket Polcari’s has always used to keep the stuff cold in the heat. One of the last things that you can buy off the sidewalk on Salem Street – in days of yore, the whole street was like a sort of outdoor bazaar. Bravi!!!

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