Intelligentia Taste Rooms | A Tip from Rik

Wonderful Flavors

Not so long ago Intelligentia moved to a building directly on the Ketelhuisplein. The ice cream season officially opens on February 28, but you can taste the original flavors of Bjorn Cocu all year round. The creations of Intelligentia are not only tasty, but they’re also smart too. The surprising combinations don't just fall out of the sky: the ingredients are combined on the basis of hidden taste profiles. A scientific approach resulting in unforgettable ice cream or other delicacies. Every month you can taste new recipes, and don't be surprised when stumbling across flavors such as ‘Mother milk’, ‘Worstenbrood ice cream’ and Rik’s favorite ‘Smokey Sigar’ among the classics like their chocolate ice cream with olive oil. It’s not just the ice cream that has an extraordinary taste, the chocolates, ice-cakes, and other pretty tasty pastries made by pastry chef Thomas Knoops seem out of this world.

Taste Rooms

This ‘other world’ is not only expressed in their sweet consumptions. The creative experience of the taste rooms, created by Sabine Cocu, makes for a fairytale-like visit. The candy pink-colored Frozen Room, in which you enter the Taste Bar, is perhaps the best-known taste room: the spot where you order a scoop of innovative ice cream. With the following five, there’s a total of six rooms that turn Eindhoven into a Wonderland: the Liquid Room, Experience Room, Wonder Room, the Un-Room, and the Fan Room. In the Liquid Room imaginative ice cocktails are served, a mix of a cocktail and some ice cream. According to Rik, you feel like Alice in Wonderland in the surrealistic Wonder Room during an Afternoon Tea, including a cup of blue tea. And to end things off there’s a room for the ultimate fans. In the specially designed Fan Room, Intelligentia fanatics can buy macaroons, chocolate bars, and ice cakes to enjoy at home.