I finally had a chance to try Van Leeuwen Ice Cream yesterday at their stop near Madison Square Park.  Such a perfect hot day for an excellent scoop (or two) of ice cream.  I asked for a small, with both chocolate and vanilla and got 2 scoops!  Not sure why we can't get 1 regular sized scoop of ice cream in this country any more!!

I assumed the chocolate would be darker since they say they use 99% Michel Cluizel chocolate, so was a little disappointed here.  It definitely tasted chocolatey but not as much as I'd like.  The vanilla however, was super tasty, such an intense vanilla flavor, loved it! They use whole vanilla beans - from organic bourbon and Tahitian vanilla orchid sourced from Papua New Guinea. They claim that other ice-cream makers simply put vanilla bean specks (which are devoid of flavor) in their ice cream to make it look authentic, but they do it right.