This long-time neighborhood establishment specializes in delicious Chinese-inflected scoops like Zen Butter (peanut butter with sesame seeds), almond cookie, lychee, red bean and black sesame.
If you like banana pudding, you'll love the Banana Nilla Wafer ice cream at the summer ice cream cart in front of Cafe Cluny. It only appears sporadically, so you must be vigilant.
Past special edition flavors include chocolate babka ice cream and "Brunch," loaded with chunks of maple-soaked french toast and coffee-glazed bacon. Stop by and see what’s on the board.
The menu is veritable a wine list in creamy frozen form, from Port and Chocolate Cabernet to Raspberry Chardonnay. Quirky non-alc flavors like Popcorn and Apple Pie are worth trying, too.
“Odd” isn’t an insult when you’re using it to describe deliciously savory-sweet combos like chorizo and caramel or miso and cherry.
S&C does the traditional stuff well, but the real draw is their slightly wacky, pan-Asian flavor options: taro, black sesame, Thai tea, wasabi and more.
The always-evolving lineup is full of fun surprises, from the White Russian-inspired “The Dude” to “The Munchies” (loaded with potato chips, pretzels, Ritz crackers, and M&Ms).
If you’re waiting for a table, you might as well head to the tiki bar out back and wait with a huge, Snoop-approved OJ slushie in hand.
In an affogato, everything depends on the quality of your ice cream and espresso. You're in good hands with this version, made with top-notch vanilla gelato from Il Laboratorio de Gelato.
Take your pick: Jim Beam and coke slushie or frozen homemade sweet tea vodka. Either one makes a great buddy for the free unlimited cheese puffs and backyard mini golf at this fun, hip-kitschy bar.
The methods are old-fashioned at this retro soda fountain and ice cream parlor, but the menu isn’t; try the Pink Poodle float, made with hibiscus soda.
The frozen pink lemonade is exactly what you’ll need after a long, hard day at the beach.
Australian iced coffee = espresso, milk, and two big scoops of vanilla ice cream. Warning: It’s going to be hard to go back to normal iced coffee after this.
The frozen piña colada is the truth, it is pure summer, and it will knock you on your ass.
The vodka ginger slush starts with an innocent base from the Kelvin slushie truck, and then proceeds to adults-only territory. Look out for seasonal specials.
The flagship "Salty Pimp" cone is hard to top: perfect vanilla soft-serve dressed up in dulce de leche, sea salt and chocolate dip.
Super-creamy, tangy, truly ~yogurty~ frozen yogurt that wants nothing more than to be tucked in beneath a blanket of graham cracker crumbs and key lime sauce.
The peerless vanilla bean soft-serve ice cream here comes in many formats, but piped-into-an-eclair is the one you won’t find anywhere else.
They start with tart, extremely (like, unbelievably) creamy yogurt and class it all the way up with fancy toppings. Get the pistachio sauce, which looks like snot and tastes like heaven.
Enjoy the creamy cereal milk soft-serve form at any location, or head to the Williamsburg outpost to try it in a “fancy shake” with booze and various magical add-ins.
The ice cream is probably full of chemicals, but man, is it delicious on a hot day. Twist cone forever.
If you ask nicely, the wonderful people here will cut a donut in half and slap a huge scoop of ice cream in between.
There’s always money in the banana stand. And it’s your money, because you couldn’t stop buying these delicious frozen bananas.
This little cart on the High Line is filled with frozen treasure: refreshing Mexican-style paletas in flavors like mango-chile and cucumber-lime.
Pro tip: Ask which cookies on the menu are the softest when you're designing your sandwich, since crunchier types can squish the ice cream and cause serious structural difficulties.
If you can’t bring yourself to choose from the endless rainbow of gelato and sorbetto pop flavors, sometimes getting the frozen hot chocolate instead is the better part of valor.
Of course there’s a place in New York that sells strictly rice krispie treat-based foods. And of course the one you should eat is the one filled with ice cream.
There's a donut sandwich covered with your choice of frosting and topping. Not for the faint of heart.
The dairy-free cake batter soft-serve is the ice cream of every vegan’s dreams (the base is made with cashews). Keep an eye out for pumpkin flavor in the fall.
Chloe’s just uses fruit, water, and sugar to make its dairy-free soft serve flavors. So yes, it’s technically something you could feel OK about eating for breakfast. Also: pretzel cones!
This vegan-but-you’d-never-know-it treat is made with cookie dough soy ice cream, chocolate syrup, and your choice of non-dairy milk.
Try a cup of sunny, dairy-free mango froyo topped with fresh strawberries, coconut, and maybe a few rainbow sprinkles.
The excellent cholado here comes loaded with multiple fruit syrups, chopped fruits, coconut, condensed milk, and a necessary cherry on top.
Hand-shaved ice dressed up with super-seasonal fresh fruit syrups (think red plum and watermelon-lemongrass).
If you need a reason to get on the Staten Island Ferry, the creme ice at Ralph's is it.
Get the patbingsu - a YOLO Korean take on shaved ice loaded with tons of fruit, condensed milk, sweet toppings, and — just for good measure — a scoop of ice cream.
For just $1, a paper cup of fruity sorbet that can literally save your life on a scorching-hot day is a pretty good deal.
You might not be able to identify everything in the Halo Halo (shaved ice, coconut, tropical fruits, sweet beans, flan, and purple yam ice cream, to start with) but you’ll be too busy eating to care.
You know how you always decide last-minute that lemon will be boring and get something else instead? Don’t. Get the lemon.
Meet the Banana Royal Sundae: Three scoops. Bananas. Sprinkles. Whipped cream. Cherries. Syrup. Walnuts. NO EXCUSES.
Why would you want just vanilla, chocolate, or pistachio spumoni when you can get the "mixed" and have all three at once?
Can we talk about the salted caramel sundae? Yes, there’s caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts on it. Yes, it’s sitting in a pool of hot fudge sauce. Yes, it’s famous for a reason.
You can watch classic and not-so-classic flavors (try the white chocolate bergamot) being spun before your eyes in the shop’s glitzy Italian freezer.
The pistachio-strawberry-chocolate ice cream cake is made in-house and has the magical ability to transform a normal dinner into YOUR AWESOME BIRTHDAY!
