Three years ago, Adrienne Nicole Borlongan didn’t know much about making ice cream. Her favorite flavor? Vanilla. Today, however, the 32 year old is the owner of Wanderlust Creamery, which has three locations in Los Angeles and includes flavors like “Australian Pavlova” and “Japanese Neapolitan," both inspired by her love of globetrotting.
“I don’t know why, but I became obsessed with creating my own ice cream, so I splurged about $3,000 on a commercial gelato maker,” says the Angeleno, who studied food science at California State University.The 2014 purchase was “ridiculous,” admits Borlongan—a former bartender, who at the time had been creating cocktail programs for Hyde Hotels—but she started telling people she had plans to open an ice cream business in 2015. (“I really just wanted to justify my purchase,” she says.) Fast-forward about eight months, and the first Wanderlust Creamery opened in an abandoned Cold Stone Creamery in L.A.’s Tarzana neighborhood. Other locations—in Venice, and in Atwater Village—soon followed…