Moooooove over Dairy Queen and make room for the latest ice cream slinger on the block. Lawrenceville’s Main Street, aka,”The Sweetest Quarter Mile Around” with an eclectic mix of restaurants, bakeries and boutique shops, has just upped its sugar quotient.
2685 Main Street, the former home of ice cream mainstay, The Purple Cow, had a make-over and is now ready to make her red carpet entrance. Joanne Canady-Brown, owner of The Gingered Peach and MercerMe’s perennial Cut Throat Cookie Exchange Judge Extrordinaire, has realized a long-held, chocolate-fudge-soaked, jimmie-covered dream birthed in her childhood: in a few days, we will all be able to see and taste the result as she excitedly introduces “Melba” to the public. Mercerme will be there with spoons at the ready and we can’t wait to tell you all about it!
Editor’s note: we went today, which was opening day, and it was extraordinary! We will tell you all about it tomorrow. Here’s a somewhat out of focus pic to whet your appetite. Guess who took the picture…..
