LA Sensation Happy Ice Expanding to San Diego

This weekend, in style LA-based meals truck Happy Ice is coming into city, parking on the Carlsbad Premium Shops from midday to 7 p.m. on Friday, August 13 and on the Style Valley mall from midday to eight p.m. on Saturday, August 14 and Sunday, August 15. It’s second time the truck has stopped right here as a part of its roving “Happiness Tour” however this go to can be a scouting mission for proprietor Lemeir Mitchell, who tells Eater that he’s planning to launch a brick-and-mortar Completely happy Ice and meals truck in San Diego someday subsequent 12 months.

Specializing in Philly water ice, a detailed cousin to Italian ice that has a smoother texture than shaved ice, Completely happy Ice options vegan flavors like Fortunate Lemon, Cherry Bomb, Mango Insanity, and Watermelon Lush in addition to vegan soft-serve ice cream that will get layered with water ice in a frozen parfait identified in Philadelphia as gelati. Mitchell says the truck may also provide delicate pretzels, a go-to snack pairing.

Mitchell, who says he’ll even be increasing within the Inland Empire, began his journey to opening Completely happy Ice in 2015 when he first moved from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Whereas working as a tattoo artist, he got here throughout a connoisseur ice cream truck and thought it could be the right automobile to showcase his favourite Philly deal with. After going again to Philadelphia to intern with one of many metropolis’s most well-known water ice firms, Mitchell rolled out his first Los Angeles meals truck in 2017.

As a black-owned enterprise, Completely happy Ice has stayed engaged with the group by means of its ongoing support of the Black Lives Matter movement and participation in charity events; because of the success of its meals vans, the corporate was capable of open its first storefront on Melrose Avenue final June.