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At Bar Moxy in Midtown Manhattan, a vending machine serves ice cream.
A vending machine offers soft-serve ice cream to visitors at the Moxy Hotel in Midtown.CreditCreditCaitlin Ochs for The New York Times
For a sweet pick-me-up almost any time, there’s soft-serve on demand at Bar Moxy in the Moxy Times Square hotel. A soft-serve vending machine is stationed at the entrance to the bar, though you need not patronize the bar, or even the hotel for that matter, to use it. Cash, credit or Apple Pay are accepted for a swirl of dairy-free dark chocolate, Mike’s Hot Honey vanilla or a twist of both in a cup that appears in a moment or two at a lighted door; a spoon emerges from a slot. Bits of honeycomb, black crumble cookie, rainbow sprinkles or Greek yogurt chips are the optional toppings. It’s a collaboration with the artist Curtis Kulig and bears his signature Love Me logo.
Bar Moxy, Moxy Times Square, 485 Seventh Avenue (36th Street), second floor, 212-967-6699, moxy-hotels.marriott.com.
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Florence Fabricant is a food and wine writer. She writes the weekly Front Burner and Off the Menu columns, as well as the Pairings column, which appears alongside the monthly wine reviews. She has also written 12 cookbooks.
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