Ed note: Post corrected to reflect that it's not the original Steve who is bringing back the Steve's name.
A guy who once scoped ice cream at the original Steve's in Davis Square has restarted Steve's and is planning a return to its original Somerville roots, but this time as a purveyor of small batches of artisanal ice cream.
We learned of the re-Steveization of Somerville from Megan, who reports on a party last night at Taza, Somerville's artisanal chocolate maker and a Steve's partner.
A summer opening is planned; alas, they didn't say exactly where in Somerville. Steve's current company bought back the name from whichever defunct entity was holding onto it after what became a national chain collapsed in the late 1990s, and it recently opened its first shop in Brooklyn:
If ice cream can be said to have a terroir, the new Steve's is definitely that of Brooklyn. The company, which began developing and testing new flavors last year, is creating partnerships with a number of the borough's artisanal producers: To date, Salvatore Bklyn is supplying the ricotta in Steve's strawberry ricotta ice cream, Kombucha Brooklyn's eponymous brew is the base for a kombucha sorbet, and Plowshares coffee stars in a coffee-cinnamon ice cream.
