Along with many NE Minneapolis residents, we are frequent flyers at Punch Pizza on Hennepin. During the summer especially, I long for an ice-cream finish to the Neapolitan-style pizza and salad. I was delighted to discover that Kramarczuk’s across the street carries a few flavors of Izzy’s ice cream. Izzy’s owners learned their trade in Italy, so their ice cream is very much in the tradition of gelato, and much better than the supposedly authentic but actually gummy and kinda yucky gelato at the coffee shop near Punch. Thus it’s a good match for Punch pizza, though perhaps incongruous at the Eastern European sausage shop. The ice cream is vegetarian, though, as are the many international candies and treats.
Punch has a blog , and recently addressed the hot topic of how best to enjoy their pizza at home .
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