Here you'll find secondhand bookshops and antiques shops alongside Vietnamese restaurants and an ice-cream parlour, serving flavours such as chocolate-basil and green tea with mango (Emporio la Rosa, Merced 291).
It serves one flavour, vanilla, but oh what a vanilla it is.
Noble also plans to introduce more affordable dishes in the resort's two restaurants, Terrace, in the hotel, and Lotus, by the pool, which serve superior flavours influenced by Italy, Asia and the Caribbean.
"The new soft serve/milkshake machines will provide more range of choices for our customers with the ability to serve additional flavours".
Organic, healthy and with the emphasis firmly on fresh produce, it serves modern European flavours with flair.
Bumble and Bee cafe in Manor Gardens, Exmouth, serves imaginative scone flavours for the obligatory Devon cream tea with a twist (Snickers scone anyone?).
One student favourite for 'bait' is the Quilliams Brother Teahousee on campus which serves over 60 flavours of tea, including apple crumble, and a variety of 'stotties' (that's a sandwich to you).
Last but not least, there is a wonderful ice-cream parlour, Sorveteria Nevaska (Rua Barão De Melgaço, 2169), near the War Arsenal, which serves amazing tropical flavours, such as limão, guava, Brazil nut and mango.
Amy's Ice Cream, a local institution, serves peach-inspired flavours on a rotating basis, including peach cobbler and peach cream cake.
There, they served vodka flavoured with pepper, garlic and many other things and Susan particularly liked Friday nights when a heel-kicking dancer would perform, reminding her of Grushenka in Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov.
