Brown's Homemade Ice Cream at Nubble Light in York, Maine is by far the best ice cream I have ever had. I have driven out of my way when I am up that way just to get a cone from Browns! My favorite flavor is the Chocolate Moose Oreo, but the grapenut pudding runs a close second.

Ayohey have you tried TOOT'S ice cream in Yarmouth? Mmmm...I had a great "Neeham" Ice cream there. Too bad New England Ice Cream is only available April to October for the most part.

Blue Bell in Texas!!!

Maggie Moo's is some of the best Ice Cream I have ever tasted. Its like Cold Stone as far as the mix in thing on a table, but IT IS SO MUCH BETTER! They also dont sing which gets old after the second time you go into a CS.

Wow!! I came across this post and I can't believe how humgry this made me. We were in Boston last month and had an early morning cone at Toscanini's. Delicious. My favorite ice cream? Toft's Herd of Cows eaten at Mud Hen Stadium in Toledo Ohio. But Toscanini's was incredible----and that was for breakfast

I didn't care for Maggie Moos, it had a waxy taste . Then I read their ingredients, good lord! Not even any CREAM in their ice cream! Just milk thickened with corn syrup and chemicals.
Maggie Moo's and Coldstone should be shut DOWN in my opinion. They are ruining the ice cream in this country, much like Subway put all the mom and pop sandwich delis out of business!

I agree with Joe. Tom's ice cream bowl in Zanesville, Ohio. ( Got family out in Rosevillle, Joe)Graeters is in Columbus. Baskin and Robbins are running themselves out with their prices

In Ohio

Graeters, (in Cincinnati and Columbus)

Handels (originally, Youngstown but now in Toledo and other cities)

Mr Freeze in Perrysburg

My sister's kitchen, right here in San Diego. She just brought some over, it's delightful.

Sherman's Dairy Bar in South Haven Michigan - be prepared to stand in line but that's part of the enjoyment to compare choices with others. The baby size is enough for most humans to consume at one time.

Ray's Ice Cream in Royal Oak Michigan. Again, humungous portions but really good. Try the cinnamon - really rich, really good.

here in milwaukee,the best is Kopps frozen custurd. It is made right there and is sooooooooooooo good.

Chester Springs Creamery (outside of Philadelphia). It is a farm that makes homemade ice cream. After dessert, you can visit the cows. You can also watch the cows being milked on a screen inside!

Marianne's in Santa Cruz, CA is a must-stop for any ice cream lover. Tons of flavors, open late at night, packed with students from UC Santa Cruz. Kind of a funky, 50's feel to it (it's been around for decades). Story says that Alfred Hitchcock used to send his cronies to get him ice cream from Marianne's. They have weird flavors like garlic (it's actually quite good) along with other yummy flavors. Ted Drewes in St Louis is great, but that's not really ice cream, is it; they call it frozen custard??? Can we talk about gelato here, too, or is that another topic?

Liks Ice Cream in Denver. I love the spumoni and my husband goes for the Guinness caramel.

For gelato I like Gelato D'Italia in the Cherry Creek area of Denver.

another vote for Marianne's in Santa Cruz. We were there last summer on vacation for a week and got ice cream every day! Yum!
In Arroyo Grande, Ca it's Doc Burnsteins.

As several posters have mentioned - Kopp's frozen custard (Milwaukee, WI) is great. However I have a soft spot for Leon's frozen custard.
This is a stand where you walk up to one of the outside windows and order chocolate, vanilla or the flavor of the day. There is a line every night - even in the dead of winter.
At Kopp's they post the flavor of the day on a billboard, and you can get a take home menu that lists the next 30 days of flavors.

There's a place in Hockessin, Delaware (5 miles west of Wilmington) that has incredible ice cream. It's called the Creamery at Woodside Farm (although my kids call it the "Cow Barn"). They take the milk from their own Jersey Cows, send it out to be made into an ice cream base, and then bring it back in-house to add the flavorings to make the final product. The ice cream is very creamy and certainly not low in fat! (I understand that's due to the Jersey cows.) I believe they generally offer about 30 or more flavors, including basics as well as more exotic ones.

The other fun part is that this is a working farm, so from the picnic tables where you eat your ice cream you can see the cows and other barnyard animals (sheep, goats, etc). The kids love running around after they load up on the sugar!

I can't believe that Beal's of Maine has yet to be mentioned! It has the best ice cream anywhere - teaberry (a wintergreen type flavor with giant hunks of dark chocolate in it) is a staple in my diet all summer. Plus they have flavors (less marvelous but still amazing) like banana cream pie, with real chunks of pie crust, and they make waffle cones there on the spot - in many cases you can watch them making the cones through the front window.

Beals gets my vote!

Goodnoe Dairy Farm in Newtown, Pennsylvania, mentioned far above in this thread is due to close this Labor Day after more than 50 years in business. This is the last shred of my childhood in once-rural Bucks County disappearing. Big sigh.....

Graeter's IS amazing; the surprise is that the chips are actually CHUNKS and some can be huge - bigger than a Hershey's Kiss.
They ship in dry ice anywhere; Oprah is a fan. You always wait in line for Graeter's, but fortunately we can buy pints in our local Cincinnati groceries.
Enjoy!