Wagamama Miso Caramel Ice Cream

Wagamama miso caramel ice cream is estimated at £8.20 (est.) and carries 418 kcal, three scoops under toffee sauce and the purest delivery of the flavour the dessert list is built around. Vegan and gluten free marked both, one of only two desserts to manage the double.

Stripped of bao, bake and construction, the miso caramel stands alone here and justifies the page's obsession: sweet, salty and deep in one spoon, the fermented note keeping every mouthful from cloying the way caramel ice creams usually do by scoop two. The toffee sauce over the top is either overkill or the point, depending on the table's mood.

Three scoops post serious numbers for an ice cream: 418 kcal with 40 g of sugar, dessert arithmetic without apology. The double marking is the practical headline, vegan and gluten free at once making it the safest celebration on the page for mixed tables, coeliac diners included with the usual shared kitchen word.

The pricing asterisk stands: no published figure, the £8.20 (est.) estimate marked est. How much is the ice cream resolves at the till, and the fairer question, three scoops against one bao nut, is a genuine fork in the road at similar money.

It ends spicy meals best of all, buldak and firecracker tables finding in cold fat the mercy water never provides, and it asks nothing of anyone: no theatre, no race against melting armour, just the page's best idea served straight.