Sweet Moos Ice Cream Parlour & Comfort Food is a dessert shop at 26B Market Place in the heart of Twizel. It holds a 4.5 rating from 62 Google reviews.
For an ice cream parlour, freshness shows before the first taste: tubs that turn over quickly scoop cleaner and taste brighter than ones left to grow a frost. Flavours should taste of what they name — fruit that is genuinely fruit, chocolate that is genuinely chocolate — and a shop that offers a small taste before you commit is usually a confident one. In dairy country like the Mackenzie, the richness of the milk does much of the work, which is why the plain flavours are the honest test. Pairing cold desserts with proper comfort food is also how a parlour earns year-round locals rather than just passing summer trade.
Set on Twizel's Market Place, Sweet Moos is well placed for a stop between Lake Ruataniwha and the road to Aoraki/Mount Cook.