The Lares Ice Cream Parlor (Spanish: Heladería de Lares) is an ice cream store located in the town of Lares, Puerto Rico.
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The ice cream store was founded in 1968 by Salvador Barreto (known as "Yinyo") and has created over 200 flavors.[1][2]
The ice cream store is located in front of the town square of Lares. It closed at the end of February 2014, due to the death of its founder[3] and re-opened in March 2017. It is open 7 days a week and offers around 50 different ice cream flavors on a regular basis.[4]
Influence
editAnother ice cream shop, Heladería El Grito, is next door.[5] After Hurricane Maria, some Puerto Rican expatriates opened similar shops in Central Florida.[6][7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Cierra la legendaria Heladería Lares. Teresa Canino Rivera. Primera Hora. 6 March 2014.
- ^ "Lares sabe a helado". El Nuevo Dia. 3 November 2015.
- ^ "Histórica Heladería de Lares reabrirá sus puertas". El Nuevo Dia. 1 February 2017.
- ^ "Heladeria Lares - Exotic Ice Cream Flavors". Puerto Rico Day Trips Travel.
- ^ Robles, Frances (16 July 2017). "Exodus From a Historic Puerto Rican Town, With No End in Sight". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Boricuas lanzan helado de aguacate en Florida Central". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). 7 May 2019.
- ^ "Puertorriqueños desplazados por María abren heladería en Kissimmee". telemundo3 (in Spanish). 15 February 2019.
External links
edit- Article about the Ice Cream Store on Univision.
- Article about the Ice Cream Store Archived 2012-10-04 at the Wayback Machine on Primera Hora. (In Spanish)
- Reference about the Heladeria Lares on TravBuddy Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine (In English)
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