Billy Van Creamy

CONTACT

27-29 Best St
Fitzroy North , 3068 VIC
Show on map


Opening Hours

SUN 12:00pm - 10:00pm
MON 12:00pm - 10:00pm
TUE 12:00pm - 10:00pm
WED 12:00pm - 10:00pm
THU 12:00pm - 10:00pm
FRI 12:00pm - 10:30pm
SAT 12:00pm - 10:30pm

The Details

Need to Know
  • Catering
  • Food Truck
Serving
  • Dessert
  • Take Away
billy-van-creamy

The Verdict

Billy van Creamy has an origin story to rival Wolverine. It started with brothers Alex and Mitch Wells, making ice-cream by hand in the kitchen of the Thornbury Bowls Club, slinging cups from a self-fitted food truck at Rucker’s Hill in Northcote.

It was a bit of a gamble—sort of the modern-day equivalent of the Mr. Whippy van. But the business took off, and a year later they opened a pop-up shop in Fitzroy north, just near Edinburgh Gardens. That pop-up is still going strong in 2018, and shows no signs of slowing down.

The Van Creamy concept is still the same: “really really good ice-cream, made from scratch, daily.” Usually this takes the form of tried-and-tested classics like hazelnut, lemon, pistachio or salted caramel. But the brothers have become ice-cream mavericks over the years—teaming up with the Flour Market to launch Christmas Pudding ice-cream with Panettone, or joining forces with Butterbing to create (seriously addictive) ice-cream cookie sandwiches.

Our favourite collab? Probably the infamous Dessert Burger—a fried Cobb Lane doughnut stuffed with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream, drizzled in choc sauce and dusted with dark chocolate flakes. Your week’s calories right there, but who the hell cares. The boys are also dishing up a new range of vegan ice-cream treats—blended from housemade cashew milk and organic coconut milk.

You’ll usually find Alex or Mitch behind the counter in Fitzroy North, with the other manning the food truck, rocking Welcome to Thornbury, or working the Billy van Creamy stall at St Kilda Fest and Splendour in the Grass.

Check the Billy van Creamy Insta feed for the latest flavour combos. And if you single scoop, you’re doing it wrong. 

Image credit: Billy van Creamy 


You May Also Like

Entertainment

OnAir

If you've been watching the ever-growing trend of coffee shop DJ sets with eager eyes, you'd better get down to Cremorne's newest venue OnAir. 

Cafes

Yugen Tea Bar (YTB)

Adorable fish-shaped waffles, Matilda-inspired chocolate cake, and an Oriental Bloody Mary... If the perfect Asian-inspired brunch exists, it's got to be this.