Worlds Best Ice Cream:
ANDERSONS -Buffalo,NY
Accept no immatations

LIKS-Denver, Colorado!!! Not sure if Oprah knows about us?!

Homers on Green Bay Road in Wilmette north of Chicgo has incredible home-made peach ice cream - and shaved ice in Hawaii is good but nothing can beat the Italian Ice on Taylor street in Chicaco with chunks of fruit in it.

The University of Wisconsin- Madison has an ice cream lab or factory or whatever and I remember it being pretty darn good, but we also had a frozen custard place off campus- more like a little stand- that was ridiculously, addictively good. I always ordered cookies & cream shakes.

In Door County, Wisconsin, there's an ice cream place called Wilson's that's just terrific.

Agree that Cold Stone and Maggie Moo's are part of what's wrong with america! 31 Flavors too!

How a dump like cold stone can stay open in a quality-ice-cream city like Boston is beyond me! And maggie moo's tastes like lard!

I think Bruster's is pretty good for a "going out for ice cream" kind of place (even though I'm a "SOFT SERVE CUSTARD" chick), locations we've been to were in Virginia Beach, Hilton Head, and Charleston SC. Cold Stone has absolutely no flavor and melts very fast. I think it's made mainly of whole milk. I prefer Marble Slab.
Would love to try Kopp's whenever we get to WI.

My votes for the best ice cream......in New England:
#1 Richardson's Dairy in Middleton, MA It's just about 12 miles northeast of Boston on Rt. 114 and worth the trip. You get to see the cows that make your ice cream and in the spring, the calves. They have a wonderful new brick building with inside and outside tables and chairs. You can also play miniature golf, drive or bat balls. It's a real destination. But the best reason to come is the ice cream. Favorite flavor? DH's is Rum Raisin; mine M&M Vanilla or Moosetracks. They are open ALL YEAR and always busy. You can get milk there also.
#2 Kellerhaus near Weir's Beach, NH on Route 3. Old German-type chalet building offering homemade ice cream and a make-it-yourself sundae bar! Their vanilla and chocolate-chocolate chip are the best. You can see Lake Winnepeasaukee from the windows in their dining room and play the antique player piano. We MUST have a sundae there every summer!

New on my list but outside New England.....Ken Dawe's Frozen Custard in St. Louis. Not sure if that's really considered ice cream, as we don't really see that variety here in New England. But it's sooooo good.

Agree with the previous poster ...

RICHARDSON'S in Middleton, MA absolutely ROCKS!!!!!!!!!! The best rum-raisin I've ever tasted, and my DGD loves the cotton candy. My son & family have moved away this summer to the West Coast. I'm sure gonna miss that ice cream!!! So, what's the best ice cream in Fresno, CA, guys??? :-)

Seven years and four days later.....it's still hot! 94 where I am and so many other US parts in the broiler. So it's got to be... TIME FOR ICE CREAM!

Just had some of the best ice cream ever at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder,Colorado. Glacier was selected best ice cream in the Denver metro area by 5280 Magazine. It was awesome!!

Curly Creme in Plains (Northeast) PA. They are only open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Very creamy soft serve. Chocolate, vanilla and the "flavor of the week"!

Coconut at Bing's Ice Cream in PV Mexico.

erikachicago,
Have you tried Bobtail Ice Cream in Chicago? We love the one on Broadway :-)

Broadway
2951 N. Broadway
Chicago, IL, 60657
773-880-7372

Southport
3425 N. Southport
Chicago, IL, 60657
773-248-6104

Buckingham Fountain
North & South
462/522 S. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL, 60605

Armitage
338 W. Armitage
Chicago, IL 60614

Wilmette
1114 Central
Wilmette, IL 60091

Sandy

Italy!!!

Jimmee Cone in Damascus, MD

Sandypaws - I'm a former Chicagoan and Bobtail is a new one on me. Will have to give it a try - maybe the one that's right in my old neighborhood!

Scooter's Frozen Custard - Chicago
Foo's Fabulous Frozen Custard - Kansas City
Andy's Frozen Custard - Branson MO
Ted Drewe's - St. Louis

I agree the cold stone is crap ice cream.

Up in the Nashua area, the following are good:

Hayward's
Countrybrook Farms (Hudson)
The Big One

Graeters in Cincinnati ...I received a UPS carton filled with dry ice and 12 pints...assorted flavors..it came to my office..so I did have to share..was so sad when I got home and tasted..wanted the other pints back! Best gift I have received in the last 48 yrs!

Berthillon vanille is tres memorable. It's been 9 years since we first tried it and we still talk about it! (and I'm a choco-holic)