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Top 5 Ice Cream Stands in New England
Expert advice from travel authors
by Jane and Michael Stern
Travel and cookbook authors Jane and Michael Stern travel thousands of miles for their popular Web site, roadfood.com, so we asked them for their five favorite places to get scooped.
Ridgefield Ice Cream Shop
The vintage soft-serve machines quite simply define chocolate and vanilla at their simple best.
680 Danbury Road, Ridgefield, CT; 203-438-3094
Gray's Ice Cream
Gray's must-haves are ginger and coffee. The former packs an eye-opening bite from bits of ginger root, while the latter is just-right sweet.
16 East Road, Tiverton Four Corners, Tiverton, RI. 401-624-4500; graysicecream.com
Christina's Homemade Ice Cream
Ah, burnt-sugar ice cream. Seconds must include Mexican chocolate, khulfi, and banana-cinnamon.
1255 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA. 617-492-7021; christinasicecream.com
Bishop's Ice Cream
Check out "Bishop's Bash": chocolate chips, nuts, and brownie chunks in dark chocolate.
183 Cottage St., Littleton, NH; 603-444-6039
Hodgman's Frozen Custard
Big on classics such as a sundae royale featuring hot fudge, sliced bananas, whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry.
1108 Lewiston Road, New Gloucester, ME; 207-926-3553
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Reader Comments
Comment from robert campbell on August 20, 2008
i would add kimballs ice cream in littleton ma.
Comment from Jenifer Lewis on August 6, 2009
My husband and I used to live near Littleton NH, and when we heard Bishop's had been written up in Yankee as one of the Best Ice Cream Shops Ever, we thought we'd check it out. We each ordered our benchmark flavor: mine is vanilla and my husband's is chocolate.
Neither of us found anything special about the experience: not the ice cream, not the surroundings, not the service. It wasn't awful, and it was better than mediocre, but it certainly didn't deserve any rhapsodic write-ups. We gave it a B.
I find it difficult to believe that there was no ice cream parlor in Vermont worthy of inclusion, and I can only assume the Sterns never visited Treadwell's in North Andover, Massachusetts.
And no mention of Old Colony in Winthrop, Maine? Horrors!
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