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Jill Siegel's avatar

Try Graeters Mint Chocolate Chip. I get it at Wegmans, but they have it at Gristedes as well. The company only makes small batch. It's really one of the best!

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Nabil Ayers's avatar

I’m right near Wegmans- on it!

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Jill Siegel's avatar

Would love to know what you think! Keep me posted!

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Harrison's avatar

Love this! Reminds me of the “Italian Job” gelato recipe sprinkled with olive oil and fennel pollen I adapted from NYC restaurant Lilia for easy home cooking! Just one scoop can waylay a Mafia Mobster's most nefarious plottings.

check it out:

https://thesecretingredient.substack.com/p/get-nyc-restaurant-lilia-italian-job-gelato-recipe

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Anne Levin Benedict's avatar

Any flavor at Halo Farms in Trenton, NJ or Halo Pub in Princeton. The Amaretto is off the charts!

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Nabil Ayers's avatar

Sounds like I need a trip to New Jersey!

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karen weir's avatar

Poteet Strawberry ice cream. The strawberries are grown in Poteet Texas and the ice cream is sold only at Heb grocery stores in Texas

I love home made vanilla bean ice cream with a good bourbon on top ! Yeah !!

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Nabil Ayers's avatar

Sounds amazing!

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Esther Teller's avatar

Just came back from Israel where Anita’s ice cream was fabulous, and she also has a shop in NYC. But my meal in a restaurant in Acco, Israel, on the sea, called Uri Buri (the chef) was the best food I have ever eaten anywhere in the world, including NYC, San Francisco and Paris.

The dessert was a tasting of 4 scoops of ice cream: halvah, cardamom, rose, and chocolate. Unreal.

There was also a scoop of wasabi cream served with the ceviche which my daughter and I finished even after the fish was gone. Oh my.

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Nabil Ayers's avatar

This sounds right up my alley thanks!

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Kadrian Alvarenga's avatar

I love Mashti’s too. Walking distance from my house and that cucumber flavor is out of this world. I think though my heart and my family are loyalists to Jeni’s. The brambleberry crisp, sweet cream, and gooey butter cake flavors are exquisite

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Nabil Ayers's avatar

I love Jeni’s! When it first came to NYC it was in one fancy Brooklyn store in clear pints with the flavor hand written in sharpie

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Kadrian Alvarenga's avatar

That’s a nice personal touch I can get behind

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Kadrian Alvarenga's avatar

I love Mashti’s too. Walking distance from my house and that cucumber flavor is out of this world. I think though my heart and my family are loyalists to Jeni’s. The brambleberry crisp, sweet cream, and gooey butter cake flavors are exquisite

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Dick Huey's avatar

We have this topic in common Nabil. Did you ever try New York Ice? That was one of the first Italian-style gelatos in NY. My mother’s brother created it, and ran it with his partner Guido in the west village in the mid-80’s. They had a big food darling moment…

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Nabil Ayers's avatar

I don’t remember New York Ice but what a great name

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Dick Huey's avatar

This was *not* an easy article to find, but Guido Magnaguagno who ran this with my Uncle in the early 80's is quoted in this article (fun fact, Guido was also Jerry Seinfeld's personal chef). https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/21/garden/the-lighter-ice-creams-now-less-is-more.html

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Rhonda Voo's avatar

My favorite in LA is Gingers on Washington Boulevard 🍒

@rhondavoosicecreamshoes on instagram

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Deb's avatar

Lick in Perugia, Italy has some of the most interesting flavor combos, but also theeee best gelato I’ve ever had: Limone e basilico (lemon and basil)

Lick: Corso Cavour, 5, 06121, Perugia, IT

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Sipsman | Communique's avatar

Next time you're in Vermont seek out a pint of gurnsey sweet cream from Strafford's. Just a beautiful blank slate.

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Wells Crandall's avatar

I leaned heavy on ben and Jerry’s coffee heath bar crunch during bar exam and also just all the time. They subbed out heath for green reasons I think and it wasn’t the same. I wrote a pleading letter to bring it back and also received a coupon. What are carbon credits for anyway? I’ll give up my car.

We are Graeters and Jenis people but are big tent ice cream people and our favorite flavor is mint chip. Is that Midwest? Not sure but it’s always been my favorite and Tara’s too.

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