{"id":4391,"date":"2015-02-08T08:08:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T13:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=4391"},"modified":"2015-02-08T14:33:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T19:33:25","slug":"hello-df-mavens-in-st-marks-place-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/hello-df-mavens-in-st-marks-place-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello DF Mavens in St. Mark&#8217;s Place NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2014, we were dropping off my laptop at a shop near St. Marks Place, for repair after a few failed attempts at finding a competent spot in Toronto ( by the way, I cannot recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/simplemacrepair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simple Mac repair<\/a>\u00a0in NYC\u00a0enough &#8211; they were amazing) When we just happened to walk by the new <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmavens.com\/store\/\" target=\"_blank\">DF Mavens store<\/a>\/shop as they were setting up to open. I hadn&#8217;t known about this &#8211; and I saw the logo and thought&#8230; wait a second&#8230; no. This isn&#8217;t really here is it? But yes, it was real life, and a\u00a0relatively big\u00a0vegan\u00a0ice cream shop was getting organized right before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The doors were closed &#8211; but looked like they were ready to open soon. I hoped to catch them before we went back home\u00a0in a few days. Conveniently, we had to be back in the area to pick up my newly repaired laptop. I crossed my fingers we&#8217;d luck out and they&#8217;d be ready by then too.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DF Mavens location in NYC by MeShell, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/15503852863\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7547\/15503852863_0064ee16d8_z.jpg\" alt=\"DF Mavens location in NYC\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0day or two later we were back in the neighbourhood (picking up my macbook) &#8211; and the\u00a0DF Mavens spot\u00a0was bustling with activity and full of people. It was exciting to see a large totally vegan ice cream shop, with ice cream, coffee, sandwiches, and other food &amp; drink. You could take large containers of their ice cream, cups, cones, samples, whatever.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DF Mavens by MeShell, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/15936127078\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7492\/15936127078_54c5375faf_z.jpg\" alt=\"DF Mavens\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a>There were so many choices &#8211; cashew based, soy, or almond. A great assortment of flavours and they were very well staffed to handle all the samplers and patrons. I didn&#8217;t sample much &#8211; but I did immediately gravitate towards the Cashew Salted Caramel.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DF Mavens by MeShell, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/15937807427\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7496\/15937807427_062731d3c6_z.jpg\" alt=\"DF Mavens\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I wasn&#8217;t alone &#8211; it was a flavour in demand. Though now that I&#8217;m looking at the above photo again, \u00a0that peanut butter fudge mash sounds mighty fine too (and chances are good I&#8217;ll get that next time&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/qhnoVB\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4439\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DF-Mavens-Cookie-Dough-Ice-Cream.jpg\" alt=\"DF Mavens Cookie Dough Ice Cream\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DF-Mavens-Cookie-Dough-Ice-Cream.jpg 640w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DF-Mavens-Cookie-Dough-Ice-Cream-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DF-Mavens-Cookie-Dough-Ice-Cream-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DF-Mavens-Cookie-Dough-Ice-Cream-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My dear partner JC, also has great taste in things that are delicious and got the cookie dough, which I got to try a few bites of.<\/p>\n<p>It was just a quick stop in on the way to exploring the rest of the city, but it was such a positive experience that I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be back the next time we&#8217;re in town. Preferably in the summer!<\/p>\n<h2>DF Mavens Store<\/h2>\n<p>37 St. Marks Place, New York, NY<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dfmavens.com\/store\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DfMavens\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFMavens\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/DFMavens\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2014, we were dropping off my laptop at a shop near St. Marks Place, for repair after a few failed attempts at finding a competent spot in Toronto ( by the way, I cannot recommend Simple Mac repair\u00a0in NYC\u00a0enough &#8211; they were amazing) When we just happened to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,346,24],"tags":[1279],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-new-york-city","category-travelling","tag-df-mavens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}