Jock's

On Albert Park's Victoria Avenue, Jock's keeps things refreshingly simple: hand-made ice cream and sorbets, scooped in-store or packed into take-home tubs, with a bit more besides. The sorbets are made fresh and lean zingy; the ice creams do the comforting work. Beyond the cone, the shop turns out ice-cream cakes — regular favourites or made to your own brief — and proper ice-cream sandwiches, wrapped and ready to go or ordered by the batch for a party. There's a lightness of touch to the whole enterprise, from the cheerful shopfront to the promise that there's more here than just a scoop. Open every day, and later into the evening on weekends, it is the neighbourhood's reliable answer to a warm Melbourne night.