When a craving for something sweet strikes, there is hardly a better choice on a warm day than ice cream. Here are a few Łódź artisanal ice cream parlours that are still operating and worth knowing.

Łodziarnia - Lody na okrągło - ul. Sienkiewicza 13

The ice cream here is made without artificial dyes or preservatives, using high-quality milk. The permanent range includes cream, chocolate and strawberry, plus a daily changing selection of 5-6 extra flavours, including ice cream versions of popular sweets such as Kinder Bueno, Monte or Oreo. The shop is a few minutes from Dworzec Fabryczny and from Piotrkowska, also serves coffee, and ice cream can be bought to take away in thermal packaging. Open daily, usually 12pm-7pm.

Łódzka Fabryka Lodów - Piotrkowska 52

This ice cream parlour in the very centre of the city offers artisanal ice cream made from natural ingredients, both scoop and Italian-style (in cream-chocolate and strawberry-yoghurt variants). Ice cream can be paired with colourful wafers, coloured with natural ingredients such as activated charcoal, carrot or spinach. The most popular flavour is caramel with Himalayan salt, and the offer also includes sorbets, for example mango or lemon.

Beza Krówka - several points in Łódź

Beza Krówka is today a nationwide chain of ice cream parlours with more than a hundred locations across Poland, and in Łódź it can be found, among other places, by the entrance to OFF Piotrkowska, on Rojna 19 and at Księcia Władysława Opolczyka 13. The ice cream is made solely from natural ingredients, and the chain regularly expands its range with new flavours such as fig with poppy seed or mojito. The offer also includes waffles, sweet snacks, and hot and cold drinks. It is worth checking the chain's website for the exact, current list of points in Łódź before heading out.

Galante Lody Naturalne - ul. Rydla 17A

In the Dąbrowa district, on ul. Rydla, there is a family-run natural ice cream workshop called Galante. These are scoop ice creams and sorbets made exclusively from natural ingredients, with sorbets containing at least 60 percent fruit. The range includes flavours such as farmhouse cream, meringue with forest fruits, caramel with Himalayan salt, or roasted pumpkin seeds. Galante now also has locations outside Łódź, including in Andrespol, as well as further spots in the city on ul. Bartoka and ul. Rzgowska.

Lód Miód - points across Łódź

This Łódź artisanal ice cream workshop, run since 2017 by Ewa and Karim Soliman, works daily with local apiaries. The network of characteristic white-and-yellow Lód Miód points has grown to a dozen or so spots in and around Łódź, including Retkinia, Teofilów, Dąbrowa and Bałuty, as well as Pabianice. Among the flavours, look out for CZARNELOVE, black caramel ice cream with Himalayan salt, coloured exclusively with natural ingredients. Since some points operate seasonally, it is best to check the current list of open locations on the parlour's website.