ice cream

Of course, you'll need a three-gallon tub of ice cream to go with it

adamg — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:20:43 +0000

Roche Bros. is now selling five-liter kegs of root beer - just the thing to go with the three-gallon tubs of ice cream that's the smallest size you can get at Puritan Ice Cream in Roslindale.

JP Licks loses lease on Newbury Street

adamg — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:44:49 +0000

Boston Tweet reports there'll be no hemp ice cream for Back Bay residents.

And they'll be calling it Heavenly Hash, no?

adamg — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:21:22 +0000

Wicked Local Somerville reports that JP Licks is coming out with a line of hemp-based non-dairy ice cream. The press release doesn't say what the chain will call the stuff, but Pot Pie seems too chickeny.

State official doesn't prefer the taste of Schweddy Balls

adamg — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:00:48 +0000

State Treasurer Steve Grossman had some Schweddy Balls today and tweets about the experience:

Latest flavor gets a 5/10. Too much vanilla. Not enough malted milk balls.

You may recall that Grossman made trips to ice-cream places a part of his successful election campaign last year.

Getting all hot and Schweddy

adamg — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:57:25 +0000

News that Stop & Shop doesn't want to touch Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls is apparently spurring a mini-frenzy among the local Twitterati desperate for fudge-covered rum balls. So here's a (no doubt far from complete) list of local emporia where you can get your hands on some Schweddy Balls:

Back Bay: Marlborough Market (via Penny Cherubino).
Beverly: Henry's (Eileen).
Charlestown: Johnny's Foodmaster (Cara).
Chelsea: Market Basket (John-W).
Chestnut Hill: Star Market (Amy Pas).
Northboro: Wegmans (Christian Holt).
South Boston: Tedeschi, W. Broadway and 7-Eleven, E. Broadway (Say-Mo and Molly).
Porter Square: Shaw's (Mamajoan).

Friendly's looks at bankruptcy

adamg — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:23:24 +0000

The Wall Street Journal gets the scoop: Cheap food served slow no longer cutting it.

The return of Fudgie the Whale

adamg — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:30:26 +0000

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Carvel, purveyor of soft ice cream and Fudgie the Whale, is going to make a second go at the Boston market where it slowly withered and died last time around.

Ice cream wars: Steve has nothing to do with Steve's

adamg — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:22:44 +0000

In a way, it's flattering, Judy Herrell says: Yet another ice-cream maker is taking a page from her partner Steve's book and making plans to sell hand-crafted ice cream.

But the latest Steve's Ice Cream is going too far, Judy Herrell continued in an interview with Universal Hub. As that New York-based venture prepares to open up shop in Somerville, it's unfairly playing up a connection to Steve Herrell that doesn't exist, she says.

Getting the scoop: Steve's Ice Cream plans return to Somerville

adamg — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:43:45 +0000

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.

Rozzie gets its South End on again; Hyde Park could get ice-cream place

adamg — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:14:04 +0000

Charlie Redd, late of the South End's Coda, reports his Redd's in Rozzie at what used to be Geoffrey's on Washington Street, is now open.

So far, dinner hours only (1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday). Full bar, he reports. The Boston Licensing Board tomorrow considers his request to buy the liquor license from Beth McNichols, who owns the building and who ran Salute before leasing it to Geoffrey's and then, briefly, Adams Park, before teaming up with Redd.

Meanwhile, looks like somebody is getting ready to open an ice-cream place on Truman Parkway at Fairmount Avenue, next to Cappy's Pizza. Although it's called Bean & Cream, and has a coffee-cup in its logo, Hyde Park denizen Mike Ball informs us (see the comments), it'll be run as an ice-cream place, not a coffee house.

Ice-cream grudge match in Harvard Square today

adamg — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:53:53 +0000

Ben and Jerry's and b.good face off, angrily no doubt, on Dunster Street between 4 and 6 p.m. Both'll have truck on the street giving out samples - ice cream for Ben and Jerry and milkshakes (milkshakes? That's what she said). And they'll be collecting donations for the Boston Back on My Feet, a homeless support group. Whichever company's truck collects the most donations will then claim Boston ice-cream-truck supremacy.

Four stars for 3 Scoops

adamg — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:16:57 +0000

Beantown Bloggery yums up the Brighton ice-cream place.

Brighton Center could get frozen custard, more pizza

adamg — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:12:58 +0000

The Brighton Allston Improvement Association tonight considers several possible projects in Brighton, including a proposed Naked Pizza at Washington and Foster (name presumably refers to the pizza, not its servers) and an Abbots Frozen Custard across from St. E's at 260 Washington St. Also, the 7-Eleven in Oak Square wants to start selling beer and wine.

The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, 326 Washington St..

Landmark Allston ice-cream place/coffeehouse shutting doors

adamg — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:05:13 +0000

Allston Cafe, at the corner of Harvard and Brighton avenues, tweeted today it's closing forever:

It brings us great sadness to announce that Saturday Nov. 13th will be our last day of business. Sat 8-3pm, Sun 2-6pm Open House Goodbye :(

The cafe started as a Herrell's ice-cream shop in 1984, but split from Herrell's last year when the chain decided to bring uniformity to its outlets as part of an effort to go national and the local operators decided to try to keep their quirky local character.

Ed. Note: No immediate word on what will replace the cafe, or whether Don Law is buying the location so he can put in a Brighton Ice Cream Parlor.

Leave it to somebody from Brookline to complain about Boston cops giving out Hoodsie cups

adamg — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:57:11 +0000

Cleary Squared points out a letter in the Herald from somebody who thinks the cops should be giving out yogurt instead.

Earlier:
Crime-fighting Hoodsie Cups to roll out on the streets of Boston.