I Mentioned That When The Girls Had A Day Out,

during the week the ice cream parlour in Harrods was closed, 

photograph Bit Boy/Flickr, but here is a ice cream parlour that is defiantly open, the only problem being it is in Cuba! but it is the largest ice cream parlour in the world, located in Havana, Cuba, Coppelia Park it is also known as the ‘Ice Cream Cathedral', amazingly it serves around 30,000 customers per day and up to 600 at a time, 

photograph BBC Travel, built in 1966, Cuba’s ‘Parque Coppelia consists of a two-storey domed pavilion inspired by Oscar Niemeyer’s iconic Cathedral of Brasilia, the story goes that Fidel Castro ordered the building of Coppelia Park shortly after the success of his Communist revolution. He reportedly ordered twenty-eight containers of ice cream from American producer Howard Johnson’s, and upon tasting it decided to respond by creating something bigger and better, but cheap enough that anyone could afford. His idea was a huge hit, and to this day thousands of people continue to enjoy subsidized ice cream at Coppelia Park, the world’s largest ice cream parlour,

a video showing the outside unfortunaly I could not fined one of the inside, “Before the revolution, the Cuban people loved Howard Johnson’s ice cream,” Fidel Castro famously told a visiting journalist shortly after the inauguration of Coppelia Park. “This is our way of showing we can do everything better than the Americans.” the world’s largest ice cream parlour remains extremely popular in Havana, it is the place most children celebrate their birthdays, where couples go on first dates, and it’s also one of the Cuban capital’s main tourist attractions, and for about 5 Cuban pesos per scoop, at today’s rate just 16 pence or 21 cents, it is a bargain, now how much is a return ticket to Cuba to try the ice cream? the full story is featured here.