It’s always exciting when one of the best ice cream shops in New York City churns out a cool new flavor. It’s even more exciting when said parlor will be scooping it up for free: OddFellows Ice Cream Co., the folks behind beloved flavors like Coffee Crunch, Strawberry Jam and Cookies & Mint, have partnered with brioche brand St Pierre Bakery on a new collaboration dessert that they’ll be giving out for free to celebrate National Brioche Day. 

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Launching on Tuesday, May 14, and available through the week as supplies last, the brand’s sweet collab is a limited-edition Coffee & Brioche Waffles ice cream flavor that combines generous chunks of St Pierre’s decadent brioche waffles—”the sweetness of a Belgian waffle meets the richness of fluffy brioche,” made from a traditional European recipe and sweetened with crunchy pearl sugar—with OddFellows’ carefully crafted coffee flavor.

But that’s not all: OddFellows will offer 50 complimentary Brioche Waffle Ice Cream Sandwiches featuring the brand-new flavor to the first 50 customers who show up on May 14th to one of its six participating ice cream shops located in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as Tampa, Florida and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

That means NYC locals can visit the Domino Park (40 River Street), Dumbo (44 Water Street), Brooklyn Bridge Park (334 Furman Street, Pier 5) or Chelsea outposts (141 Eighth Avenue) for the chance to get one of the gratis ice cream sandwiches. The parlors open at noon, so plan accordingly! (But even if you don’t manage to score one of the free waffle ice cream sandwiches, you can still DIY your own scoops sandwich at OddFellows, which allows you to smash your chosen flavor between two chewy chocolate chip cookies.) 

Check out the limited-edition Coffee & Brioche Waffles ice cream flavor—as well as that tasty-looking waffle ice cream sandwich—from the St Pierre Bakery x OddFellows collaboration below: 

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A real-life friendship was the catalyst for this tasty collaboration. Chefs Trigg Brown and Danielle Spencer, of Brooklyn’s beloved Taiwanese bakery and restaurant Win Son, will cross the bridge to join their long-time pal, executive Chef James Tracey of the Midtown East brasserie Monterey, for a one-night-only collaboration dinner held at the latter restaurant (37 E 50th St). With the chefs cooking together, the exclusive evening will feature dishes inspired by both Monterey’s modern American and Win Son’s innovative Taiwanese-American cooking. 

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Kicking off with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres on Saturday, May 11, at 5:30pm, the Monterey-hosted meal will be a “pop-up seven-course blowout menu” that will “transport diners across boroughs and across continents” with bold dishes like fried soft-shell crab with grilled ramps, Taiwanese fish sauce and herbs; guajillo-braised beef cheeks with Anson Mills grits, fresh chickpeas, spring onions and cotija cheese; and chicken wontons with morels, firewood bean paste and five spice beurre fondue. Of course, you’ll be able to finish off with one of Spencer’s famed mochi doughnuts (a popular order at Win Son’s bakery offshoot), turned à la mode and topped with strawberry gelato and red wine gastrique. 

The dinner marks the first time that the trio is back in the kitchen together, fusing the best of their respective restaurants, since the gang’s Colicchio and Sons days: Brown interned for Chef Tracy back in the day at Craft, and later cooked together at Colicchio and Sons, where they met pastry chef Danielle Spencer.

Tickets for the event are $98, excluding tax and service; space is limited, so you can reserve your spot now on Opentable. A creative drinks pairing from Chef Driven’s Beverage Director Aviram Turgeman will also be available to add on for $75 per person, with bubbles, sakes and wines accounted for.  You can check out Brown, Tracy and Spencer’s full collaboration menu for the Monterey x Win Son dinner event below. Save us a mochi doughnut!

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