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28 April, 2025
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Seafood ‘soft serve’ in a cone?

Kraken Rum is serving seafood ‘gelato’ in a cone from a tentacle-topped ice cream van - and it’s coming to Birmingham to kick off May this Thursday 1st May! The menu developed by food professionals offers scoops of smoked mackerel pâté, spicy tuna and creamy taramasalata with your choice of fishy topping, be it King Prawns, octopus or caviar. Catch it at Rotunda Square on Thursday 1st May where they’ll be handing out FREE cones from 11:30am, alongside chilled tasters of Kraken Black Spiced Rum. It’s odd, it’s oddly tasty – and it won’t be around for long.

Kraken Rum’s Sea Scoops ‘ice cream’ van is a bit fishy… and that’s the point!

Kraken Rum launches unconventional ‘ice cream’ van serving gelato-style scoops of SEAFOOD in wafer cones with fishy toppings and drizzles

● Seafood lovers can choose ice cream-esque scoops of creamy taramasalata, spicy tuna and smoked mackerel pate 

● Leaving the high seas for the high street, the tentacle-topped truck will drop anchor in Manchester, Birmingham, London and Brighton this week serving FREE Sea Scoops cones to the public

Kraken Rum launches unconventional ‘ice cream’ van serving gelato-style scoops of SEAFOOD in wafer cones with fishy toppings and drizzles
Kraken Rum launches unconventional ‘ice cream’ van serving gelato-style scoops of SEAFOOD in wafer cones with fishy toppings and drizzles Credit: Kraken

 

Move over Mr. Whippy and make way for Mr. Fishy: a first of its kind van serving up scoops of gelato-style SEAFOOD in wafer cones. There is no 99 with a Flake on this menu, but there are scoops of spicy tuna and creamy taramasalata topped with King Prawns and caviar. Bizarre? Perhaps. Delicious? Absolutely.

 

Leaving the high seas for the high street, the tentacle-topped truck will drop anchor in Manchester, Birmingham, London and Brighton this week serving FREE Sea Scoops cones to the public
Leaving the high seas for the high street, the tentacle-topped truck will drop anchor in Manchester, Birmingham, London and Brighton this week serving FREE Sea Scoops cones to the public Credit: Kraken

Launched by Kraken Rum the Sea Scoops menu has been developed by food professionals. Every flavour is a popular seafood recipe but presented in a format never seen before: as an ice cream-style scoop, in a black wafer cone and served out of the hatch of an actual ice cream van.

 

An ocean away from boring vanilla and raspberry ripple, Kraken’s salty scoops are savoury and umami sensations that will defy tradition, delight seafood lovers and surprise those with an adventurous palate. They are:

Seafood lovers can choose ice cream-esque scoops of creamy taramasalata, spicy tuna and smoked mackerel pate
Seafood lovers can choose ice cream-esque scoops of creamy taramasalata, spicy tuna and smoked mackerel pate Credit: Kraken

 

- Smoked mackerel pate scoop, topped with Monster Munch, caviar and a Buffalo hot sauce drizzle

- Spicy sesame tuna scoop, topped with octopus and a Kraken teriyaki glaze drizzle

- Taramasalata scoop, topped with a King Prawn and a wild garlic oil drizzle

 

The van will be mooring in Manchester, Birmingham, London and Brighton, serving FREE cones of seafood scoops to the public. Over-18s can also snag a sample of chilled Kraken Black Spiced Rum cocktails that have been perfectly paired with the seafood scoops.

 

The Kraken is known for upending tradition to delicious and head-turning effect, first by creating the world’s first black spiced rum and now it’s transforming ice cream experiences into seafood sensations.

 

The Sea Scoops van will be serving seafood delights at the following locations:

  • Manchester’s Exchange Square M3 1BD on Tuesday 29th April 
  • Birmingham's Rotunda Square B5 4BU on Thursday 1st May 
  • London’s Battersea Power Station SW11 8BJ on Friday 2nd May 
  • Brighton’s New Road BN1 UF on Saturday 3rd May 

 

Tempted Brits will be able to get a free Sea Scoop from 11:30am each day until samples last. Seagulls are not welcome.