Sweet Willie

In no particular order

Amy’s Ice Creams
3500 Guadalupe
Austin, TX
512.458.6895

Owner Amy Simons uses natural ingredients and locally produced dairy product.

Carl’s
2200 Princess Anne St
Fredericksburg, VA

This stand serves “old school” vanilla, chocolate and strawberry frozen custard.

Dr Bob’s Handcrafted IceCreams
155 East C Street
Upland, CA
909.920.1966

Savuer’s favorite: Scharfeen Berger Really Dark Chocolate and Tahitian Vanilla

Dr Mike’s Ice Cream
158 Greenwood Ave
Bethel, CT
203.792.4388

Graeter’s
2145 Reading Road
Cincinnati, OH
800.721.3323

Since 1870, the Graeter family has made ice cream in two-gallon batches suing the artisanal French-pot method.

The Grande Ole Creamery
750 Grand Ave
St Paul, MN
651.293.1655

160 flavors

Herrell’s Ice Cream
8 Old South St
Northampton, MA
413.586.9700

choose just about any candy, fruit, nut and Herrell’s will mix it with one of the 136 flavors

Maple View Farm
6900 Rocky Ridge Rd
Hillsborough, NC
919.960.5535

Get the full rural experience at this farmstead ice cream shop as you settle into a rocking chair on the porch

Mitchell’s Ice Cream
688 San Jose Ave
Cisco, CA
415.648.2300

Mango and purple yam trump vanilla at this family owned institution

Shatila Bakery & Café
14300 W Warren Ave
Dearborn, MI
313.582.1952

serves Middle Eastern ice cream – thick, satin smooth and available in flavors like rose, pistachio, mango, cantaloupe, and apricot, along with very good chocolate, vanilla and mocha

Ted Drewes Frozen Custard
6726 Chippewa St
314.481.2652

die-hard fans wait in line for the “concrete”, a shake of frozen custard so thick that it won’t drip out of a cup turned upside down.

Toscanini’s Ice Cream
899 Main St
Cambridge, MA
617.491.5877

amazingly rich and creamy and offered in grown up flavors like Guiness, cardamom-spiked Khulfee, Cocoa Pudding or Burnt Caramel

As listed in Saveur Magazine (June/July 2005)

gutt22

Good call on the Amy's on Guadalupe! One of the first that comes to mind.

There's a place called Ritter's, which I believe has become a vaguely expansive chain after starting in Indiana, that is really excellent: www.ritters.com. They're in the Midwest and have been moving south. The quality is really quite good.

Cloud Lounger

located in YWG at 766 Jubilee Avenue, Winnipeg, Canada

Home of the Goog special - an upside down (very thick) blueberry milkshake with a hot fudge and banana sundae on top (peanuts optional). There are many other equally special treats. Uses only real ice cream and not ice milk

tazi

Any of the numerous Abbott's locations in the Rocherter, NY area. The absolute best!

UALfromMSN

Michael’s Frozen Custard
2531 Monroe St.
Madison WI
http://www.ilovemichaels.com/

There are a few other locations, but this is the original. It's so good.

Also, good call on the Amy's. They just opened one across the street from my office.

19103_aa

Dr. Mike's is excellent. They also have a satellite store in Monroe/Stepney Connecticut right off of Rte 25 (Bridgeport-Danbury highway)

Canarsie

Carvel

Perhaps it is because of the memories of eating the soft ice cream from this ice cream chain when I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn, but Carvel ice cream is in its own class. The Flying Saucers, shakes and ice cream cakes are just a few of the frozen ice cream treats which Carvel offers that are also worthy of a try. It may not be the richest or creamiest ice cream. It may not even be the best ice cream. However, the ice cream is made fresh at every Carvel location. I am sure happy to learn of its ongoing nationwide expansion of franchises, because I surely enjoy Carvel ice cream.

I typically enjoy soft Chocolate ice cream with chocolate sprinkles in a sugar cone.

Bonus: For as long as I can remember, Wednesday is Sunday at every participating Carvel ice cream store. This means that when you buy one sundae, you receive one sundae free!

MMMinTX

FYI, Amy has several locations around Austin, not just the one on Guadalupe. One of them, perfect for your trip or layover, is located airside in the Austin airport. Apparently they can even pack up your treats to go in containers designed to keep cool for up to 8 hours of travel.

dchristiva

Here's a big ^ ^ ^ to Carl's. Top notch custard! This was just one of the great things about going to visit my brother when he went to Mary Washington College.

I'm a little surprised the Kopp's in and around Milwaukee didn't get any mention, nor did a place in and around Buffalo whose name escapes me at the moment.

I was also a big fan of Sprinkle's when I lived in Palm Beach, FL, and my latest ice cream addiction has been Cold Stone Creamery, located in various parts of the U.S. (and a recent addition to my town of White Plains, NY).

gutt22

They've got Amy's in a bunch of places around Texas now. I know we've got at least one here in Houston -- the one I know is right across the street from the 59 Diner at Shepherd and U.S. 59. (Mmmmmmmm ... 59 Diner ... speaking of great ice cream ... their milkshakes and malts are killer. But I digress.)

Robt760

Southern California Favorites

Dr Bob's (As mentioned in article)
Upland, CA
Locations/Grocers that stock this product:
http://www.drbobsicecream.com/retail.html
Best to try: Scharffenberger Works, Dulce De Leche

Fosselmans
Alhambra, CA
Not available in grocery stores, but their factory-store has
a full fountain counter.
http://www.fosselmans.com/
Best to try: Macapuno, Black Walnut (In Season), Dark Chocolate, Pistachio, Rocky Road, Lemon Custard

McConnell's of Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
Available in some grocery stores, and in a few franchised shops in SB/LA/OC
http://www.mcconnells.com/ (a bit out of date)
Best to try: Chocolate Burnt Almond, Brazilian Coffee Chip, Turkish Coffee
Did I already mention CHOCOLATE BURNT ALMOND??

Darren

Dolce Crema Gelateria
Moorestown Commons
330 Young Ave.
Moorestown, NJ 08057
856.439.1414
http://www.dolcecrema.com/

Moorestown was just voted best city in the country by Money magazine. It is indeed a nice little Jersey town, though growing by leaps and bounds. Farmland is giving way to shopping malls and houses, but it is still fairly local and friendly. Dolce Crema is straight from Italy. They had about 40-50 flavors, ranging from a fantastic pistachio (my favorite) to a powerful rum raisin (gf's favorite). The only one I didn't like so much was the key lime which was tart enough to knock my socks off and curl my toes. The place reminds me of a large gelateria in Vienna. It's famous but I forget the name. Worth the trip if you live in the general vicinity.

Canarsie

Some of the best ice cream — or helado — in the world can be found at Persicco in Buenos Aires.

GM99

Jake's ice cream in Atlanta

http://www.jakesicecream.com/index.html

Jake's Midtown - 970 Piedmont Ave.
Jake's Decatur - 129 Church St.
Jake's College Park - 3807 Main Street
Jake's Peachtree Hills - 8 King's Circle
Jake's Tower - 3232 Peachtree Rd. (located inside of Tower Records)
Jake's North Decatur - 2144 North Decatur Rd.

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Kopps Frozen Custard in Milwaukee environs

http://kopps.com/locations.htm


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Sugar Bowl Ice Cream Parlor Restaurant

(480) 946-0051

4005 N Scottsdale Rd
Scottsdale, AZ 85251

CDTraveler

"Cisco?"

Perhaps you mean San Francisco, as that's where Mitchell's is?