Aqua S Is Opening Its First Auckland Ice Cream Parlour

Sweet tooths looking for the ultimate Instagrammable treat should look no further, brand new CBD ice cream parlour Aqua S is bringing your candy-fuelled search to an end. On the cusp of opening on Queen Street, this isn't your average soft-serve specialist.

Aqua S has been cranking out $8 soft serve cones for Sydneysiders since January 2015 — and we know, that's a price point that may steer any punter right back to Micky D's. But hold up a second, this little ol' dessert escapade comes filled with sea salt-flavoured soft serve, topped with a pillowy bed of fairy floss, sweet popcorn, popping candy and a grilled marshmallow. And looks like an actual cloud. Take our money.

Sea salt soft-serve is obviously not a new thing — you can thank Okinawa, Japan for it. If you're not down for sea salt soft-serve, you can choose from several others on tap — changing every two weeks. Who knows, you could be inhaling biscotti soft-serve, lemon squash, earl grey milk tea, mint tea, rose lychee, elderflower, lemon cheesecake — anything. Keep things simple with a single soft-serve 'scoop', or blend up those flavours with mixed 'scoops' — and you can pick and choose from those ridiculous sounding toppings.

Find Aqua S at 287 Queen Street, Auckland CBD. It opens this May.