The “going out for ice cream” experience is pretty standard these days: you wait in a brief line while browsing frozen vats of available flavors, you order, you pay, and before you know it you’re licking your way to dairy heaven. But, at Milkcraft, the newly opened ice cream shop in Fairfield, the experience has completely changed . . . and for good reason. Continue reading
Ben & Jerry’s Celebrates Birthday with Free Cone Day (CT + NY Listings Included)
25 Mar•••
Dan has fond memories of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. When he was a kid, his parents took the family to the factory in Vermont where they tasted Cherry Garcia and Cookie Dough then had some sundaes at the attached shop. Even though it looked amazing, Dan skipped The Vermonster: 20 scoops of ice cream, hot fudge, banana, cookies, brownies, and lots of toppings. But, taking down a regular sized sundae wasn’t difficult at all.
That was years ago (won’t mention how many, though) and now Ben & Jerry’s has become a worldwide phenomena. And, it’s pretty clear why when you can’t help yourself when it comes to flavors like Liz Lemon, Cannoli, Americone Dream, Chubby Hubby, Coffee Heath Bar Crunch and our favorite of all time…Chunky Monkey. Just as a reminder and to thank everybody on their birthday this year, Ben & Jerry’s is offering up a free cone at their stores all across the country and world. Last year, alone, they gave away over 1,000,000 cones!
So, you’ll want to keep April 9, 2013 open! What? You already have plans? Cancel them! Here are some of the flavors you can expect in the scoop shops:
Americone Dream, Bonnaroo Buzz, Butter Pecan, Candy Bar Pie, Cherry Garcia, Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Chocolate Nougat Crunch, Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl, Chocolate Therapy, Chunky Monkey, Coconut Seven Layer Bar, Coffee, Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz!, Late Night Snack, Milk & Cookies, and Mint Chocolate Chunk.
And here are the nearby scoop shops in the NY/CT area:
Connecticut Ben & Jerry’s Participating
Ben & Jerry’s Branford (Tips and donations will go directly to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Connecticut)
978 Main Street,
Branford, CT 06405
203-488-9666
Ben & Jerry’s Canton
110 Albany Turnpike, Suite 703, Shoppes at Farmington Valley
Canton, CT 06019
860-693-3202
Ben & Jerry’s West Hartford
5 1/2 South Main,
West Hartford, CT 06107
860-233-2697
Ben & Jerry’s Mohegan Sun
Mohegan Sun Casino Complex, Unit C130, Mohegan Sun Blvd.
Uncasville, CT 06382
860-862-9780
Ben & Jerry’s Foxwoods Casino
39 Norwich-Westerly Road,
Mashantucket, CT 06338
New York Ben & Jerry’s Participating
Ben & Jerry’s Westchester Mall
125 Westchester Ave.,
White Plains, NY 10601
914-761-1210
Ben & Jerry’s Huntington Village
298 Main Street,
Huntington Village, NY 11743
631-470-0635
Ben & Jerry’s Mount Kisco
639 E. Main Street,
Mt. Kisco, NY 10549
914-666-2555
Ben & Jerry’s 104th and Broadway
2722 Broadway,
New York, NY 10025
212-866-6237
Ben & Jerry’s Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Plaza, Concourse Level
New York, NY 10020
212-218-7843
Macys Herald Square
151 West 34th Street, Macys – 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
212-594-0018
Our favorite burger joint comes to Stamford! New Beach Burger/Mr. Frosty’s Spot in Harbor Point.
28 May
A bacon wrapped hot dog with guacamole, pico de gallo, and jalapeno (Tijuana Dog) can soon be yours in Stamford!
Update: Today and tomorrow are soft openings in preparation for Friday’s Grand Opening of Mr. Frosty’s! Who’s in?
Directions: read the following question then choose the best answer.
1) Add one part Mr. Frosty’s in Norwalk, mix in a second part The Beach Burger, then dash in some Harbor Point Stamford and guess what you get?
A) A ridiculously, magically delicious restaurant that rivals the awesomeness of unicorns.
B) Another reason to visit Stamford.
C) Another reason to be alive.
D) All of the above.
If you are any good at these kinds of questions, you picked D. Let’s show you why D is correct. Restaurant owner, Anthony Luciani gave us the exclusive scoop:
Anthony Luciani has the magic touch. Mr. Frosty’s, on 6 1st Street in Norwalk, has a devoted following and we’ve never seen it empty. Maybe it’s the 3o or so hard ice cream, sherbert, and sorbert flavors, or maybe it’s their soft serve and froyo options, their bountiful sundaes, or their thick whipped razzles? Nah, couldn’t be.
But even more magical is his other joint, The Beach Burger, right next door. They are the 2011 OmNomy Winner for Best Burger. It’s hard to go wrong here: from the Bynum Burger, to the classic Beach Burger, to an oyster-laden Surf & Turf Burger. But, they also have some killer hot dogs, such as the Tijuana dog that has a bacon wrapped wiener, guacamole, jalapenos, and pico de gallo. Our other favorite thing to order are their killer milkshakes. Apple Pie, PB&J, and Nut Crusher are our great loves that we dream of as we go to sleep. Plus, they’ve got some really great seafood dishes Kristien raves about like lobster, oyster and clam rolls.
So, why have I told you so much about both spots?
Well, if the title and the first question didn’t already give it away, both will come together in Anthony’s new spot on 100 Washington Boulevard in the Harbor Point part of Stamford. It’s a very similar set up to Mr. Frosty’s in Norwalk: you’ll walk up to the window, place your order, then take your food and take a seat at one of the picnic benches outside. Don’t limit yourself, though. Just walk about a block and you’ll be right on the docks and can stroll along and chomp on a burger, sip on a shake, or tackle a monster sundae.
You’ll be able to enjoy the beautiful spring, summer, and fall with them because they’ll be open from March through November, too. Anthony is still tweaking the menu a bit, but you’ll have nearly all the same options from The Beach Burger in your gluttonous arsenal as well as pretty much all the ice creams from Mr. Frosty’s.
Mr. Frosty’s/The Beach Burger
100 Washington Boulevard
Stamford, CT
Monday – Thursday 8:30 am – 10:00pm
Friday – Saturday 8:30 am to 11:00pm
Sunday 11:00 am-10:00pm
Celebrate 20 Years of Longford’s Ice Cream with a Free Extra Scoop and Ice Cream Eating Contests!
11 AprWhat you doing May 20-June 20? We know what we’re doing. We’re heading to Longford’s Own-Made Ice Cream in Old Greenwich, we’re ordering some ice cream, and we’re getting a free extra scoop of their flavor of the month. We have been to Longford’s many, many times and we really love the ice cream there. Believe it or not, we’ve never been to the Old Greenwich spot, but we’ve been to the Rye spot because we lived just a few minutes away in Rye Brook.
Their ice cream is great because they make them in small batches and because it’s all-natural. What it comes down to is using quality ingredients such as real cocoa, real fruit, and actual Girl Scout Cookies and Oreos. None of those fake Oreo wannabe cookies, the real stuff! Yes, they have killer ice cream, but you can also get sorbet, frozen yogurt, gelato, and other frozen goodies from them, too. Even if you’re not at one of their stores, you might be able to sneak in some of their goodies. For example, one of our favorite BBQ spots is Q in Port Chester is serving up Longford’s Ice Cream with their q-riffic meals. Speaking of ice cream, they actually have over 60 varieties, and that doesn’t include the more than 30 flavors of their other frozen goodies.
According to a press release sent to us, owners Patricia and Nolan West even help craft speciality flavors for local chefs. They have been asked to create garlic, bacon, and cilantro ice cream flavors, and they experiment constantly with flavors. We like that kind of edginess. You can’t possibly hope to do anything great or find the next best new flavor if you stick with the same old boring chocolate and vanilla. Woooooohh! Settle down, we’re not insulting the vanilla and chocolate ice cream purists, just saying that some people like different flavors. We can all live side by side, chocolate, vanilla, rocky road, cotton candy, Cookie Monster, and more. Yes, we can.
So, be sure to check out Longford’s May 20-June 20 to get that free extra scoop. They have three locations, so make sure to stop by. Also, they’ve got more spots that will be popping up later this year, so get ready people! Chances are you’ll be addicted and will need to head back once a week, or once a day, or, well…maybe a few times a day. Depends how hot it is. ;)
This just in:
Longford’s Ice Cream Eating Contest!!!! Contact the store of the contest you’d like to be in. :)
Larchmont, NY: Saturday, May 19, 12:30 PM
Old Greenwich, CT: Friday, June 1, 5:30 PM
Rye, NY: Sunday, June 10, 1:30 PM
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Store Locations:
4 Elm Place
Rye, New York 10580
914.967.3797
1941 Palmer Avenue
Larchmont, New York 10538
914.834.0207
146 Sound Beach Avenue
Old Greenwich, Connecticut
203-637-0480
Just opened! Serving up South American style ice cream, smoothies, and goodies. TropiGlace–Cove area of Stamford, CT
31 MayLet’s just cut to the chase: we freaking love ice cream. Gopher Ice Cream is our fave, and we’ve been known to haunt Dairy Inn in search of some frozen nirvana from time to time. So, when The Headbanging Hostess told us about TropiGlace right behind Cove Pizza, we knew that we had a job to do. As always, we are your culinary ambassadors and need to tell you about this brand new spot, opened this past Saturday, May 28.
Paola, the owner, was on hand and gave us some background info about her ice cream shop. The recipe they use goes back to her grandfather who perfected ice cream in South America. So, this is a treasured family recipe, and that comes through in the flavors because–chances are–you’ve never tasted anything like it. That’s a good thing, yup. You can have ice cream on a cone or in a cup, have a stickglace, or drink it up with either the coolglace or fruitglace.
Flavor break down
Chocolate, vanilla, lucama, rum raisin, cotton candy, blackberry, passion fruit, strawberry, pineapple, peach, coconut, mango.
What we had
On Saturday, I had a scoop of lucama and a scoop of rum raisin on a cone. The lucama is a Peruvian fruit that was incredibly complex and had a deep, rich flavor. It’s hard to describe it, but it wasn’t overly sweet and we really liked it. The rum raisin was also good, though I agree with The Headbanging Hostess that the rum doesn’t come through as much. Raisins, though, ran throughout the ice cream in nice little moist bits.
The flavors are definitely there, but what really separates the ice cream here is the style. You have an incredibly smooth, silky, and creamy flavor, almost like you’re eating gelato. Overwhelmingly, the flavors that come through are tropical and you sometimes feel like you’re having a sorbet. We’re not ice cream experts, but we are experts in eating it and we can tell you that it’s great stuff.
Today we soaked in the hot sun for Memorial Day at Cove Island Beach and lost all of our energy, so we just had to go to TropiGlace again. You know, just to support local business. So, we had pineapple and blackberry cones, a scoop each, for just $4.80. Not too shabby. The pineapple was killer, not overly sweet, and had nice chunks of pineapple in the ice cream. Very good and refreshing for a hot hot day. Kristien had the blackberry and said that it was fantastic, and full of fruity taste. Once again, refreshing, not as heavy as ice cream, and just the right portion. Well, that’s her talking. I’m always the one at Gopher who finishes my two scoops and the rest of her cone.
The final scoop
TropiGlace is a cool little ice cream stand in the Cove section of Stamford. It’s right on Cove Road and just right down the road from Cove Island Park. We doubt you’ve ever had ice cream like this, so it’s definitely worth stopping by, and stopping by often. We hope that they do super well because it’s a real killer spot with a killer taste with a killer family history. So, we’ve gotta give TropiGlace a standing cone-vation. Until we’ve tried their other goodies, we can’t fairlygive a Nom rating. But, we’re talking the real deal here. Check it yo’self.
Noms: TBD
Cost: $
TropiGlace
Address: 864 Cove Road
Stamford, CT 06902
Phone: (203) 570-5670
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002525880418
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