Two Paddock Wood businesses are joining forces for a tasty new venture.

The Hop Farm Family Park in Beltring, Paddock Wood, will be opening its new Hooper’s Cream and Ice Bar on site on Saturday, March 14.

It will be serving ice cream from a business based just 250m away. Taywell Ice Cream’s manufacturing base is in Maidstone Road, Beltring, but has no retail outlet on site.

The artisan producer specialises in unusual and surprising flavours, including rhubarb and ginger crumble and Kent cobnut.

The bar will have a retro 1950’s American diner look, with chrome, mirrors and chequered patterns, and will serve a range of mouth-watering ice cream flavours, sorbets, sundaes and delicious waffles.

It will be open at weekends and throughout the school holidays.