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City Beat: The scoop on an ice-cream tour of Los Angeles

Alma Santiago carries cactus fruit and smoked milk ice creams on mango to serve at Mateo's Ice Cream and Fruit Bars during a Secret City Tours, Eat Your Way Through L.A. ice cream tour. The bus tour is led by John Bwarie and his wife, Laura.
Alma Santiago carries cactus fruit and smoked milk ice creams on mango to serve at Mateo’s Ice Cream and Fruit Bars during a Secret City Tours, Eat Your Way Through L.A. ice cream tour. The bus tour is led by John Bwarie and his wife, Laura.
(Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
By Nita Lelyveld

The life of a reporter is tough. I recently had to work on a warm and sunny Saturday.

My assignment? To go a four-hour ice-cream tour of Los Angeles, starting well before noon.

I got on a bus at Universal City and tasted my first ice cream at 10:30 a.m. It was at the Addiction Bistro on La Cienega Boulevard, which unlocked its doors an hour and a half early to let us sample two flavors: tiramisu and red velvet.

By noon, I’d tasted seven different flavors. By the time it was over, I’d had 13.

Among the offerings: Cactus fruit, tequila, black truffle caramel and smoked milk.

Want to know more about the ice cream tour? Read my latest City Beat here.

And keep reading below to see the visual version of the tour -- in photos and video -- that I sent out on Twitter:

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Nita Lelyveld

Former Los Angeles Times columnist Nita Lelyveld wrote City Beat stories about moments in the life of Los Angeles. She was born in New York and grew up around the world, but lived in L.A. longer than she lived anywhere else. Before joining The Times in 2001, she wrote for the Tuscaloosa News, the Associated Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer, which sent her to L.A. as a national writer in 1997.

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