A year ago there were no Honeymees in Irvine. Now, there are two.
What's a Honeymee, you ask? It's a Korean-style ice cream shop that swirls raw honey over soft-serve ice cream. The first Irvine store opened a few months ago at the 99 Ranch plaza on Walnut near the I-5. Other locations include LA, Rowland Heights, Buena Park, Sawtelle, and Gardena.
The menu consists of five main items: the signature “HoneyMee”, ice cream topped with a natural honeycomb chip; the “Darling”, which is just plain vanilla; the “Sweetie”, where the ice cream is topped with liquid honey; the “Dear”, which is drizzled with Ghirardelli chocolate or caramel and a sprinkling of French sea salt; and the “Babee”, which is ice cream and any topping stuffed into a sweet hot-dog bun.
Irvine's second Honeymee is actually the first one I wrote about. It opened a week ago at Harvard Place, at the corner of Harvard and Main.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.