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    North End Creamery

    4.4 (70 reviews)
    Open 2:00 pm - 9:30 PM
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Joanna R.

    Small shop, but very well organized. This team and business have a workflow that works well when people are paying attention. They have candies and other products you can browse while standing in line. The ice cream was very creamy and delicious. I had the oreo (cookie). Staff was efficient and polite. If I'm ever back in the area, I will ABSOLUTELY stop here again!

    Cookies & Cream
    Melody B.

    Very creamy ice cream in the north end of Boston! I got a small cookies & cream and it was very fresh. To keep the line moving, they only let you taste test up to two flavors. There was a small line when we were there, but service was quick & friendly.

    Cereal milk, mint choco chip, and chocolate fudge
    Jac B.

    Cute little shop. All the flavors we tried were good but I especially liked the cereal milk. The fruity pebbles were a little soggy but I was into it. Duality small batch ice cream!

    Alyssa C.

    milk tea flavor was incredible. the flavor was perfect and the texture was super creamy. the matcha strawberry was also fantastic, with the matcha tasting not artificial at all. next will have to try the thai tea coconut. there are not too many ice cream places with flavors like these, so this was a very pleasant surprise. service was kind of weird, they put my cup down and walked away as I was paying without saying anything

    Aya R.

    Item(s) ordered: Small scoop with Taro and Thai Tea with coconut The Review: There aren't many ice cream shops with interesting flavors around here. North End Creamery fills that gap! The taro flavor was amazingly creamy and the Thai tea was not sweet, but textured with the coconut pieces. The staff were really nice and customers are allowed to taste flavors (a rarity around here!). Nice stop when you have a hankering for ice cream in the North End.

    Thai Tea Coconut Ice Cream
    Taylor G.

    Cute storefront along Salem St in the North End! Balanced flavors and interesting combinations. We were talking about the Thai Tea Coconut ice cream long after it was finished!! The staff is super conscious of allergies, changed scoops and opened a new container for my order. (Photo was from a past visit)

    Bonnie G.

    Everything everybody has said. Five stars all the way for this homemade ice cream where every single flavor is great. Would come here every week if I lived here. The espresso Oreo and Thai tea coconut were nuts. Coming back. 5 stars!!!!

    Joy Q.

    Ice cream is not bad. I tried matcha and taro, and went with taro since it's less sweet and tastes more creamy. Service was nice. Don't be afraid of the line - the line moves fast. A great summer bite after an Italian meal at North End!

    Mimi L.

    Yummy ice cream! Loved the espresso oreo and milk tea flavors. Gelato equipment ice cream style. Great service. Girls were sweet and friendly. Happy to drop by this creamery in the Italian neighborhood and not far from Paul Revere house. Thanks for making our Boston trip super sweet.

    Kid's cone of taro ice cream
    Salena C.

    I went to the north end creamery the other day with my friend and it was SO GOOD. The flavors are so unique and absolutely delicious. I got the pumpkin chai custard and my friend got taro--both were amazing. The girlies there were super sweet and the store itself is super cute! Would 100% go here again and try more flavors

    Rachel T.

    Very yummy ice cream with totally unique flavors! We were looking for ice cream or gelato and wandered here. There's a bright atmosphere inside and so many fun flavors to choose from! I got the Thai tea and strawberry matcha both of which were fantastic! I'm a huge ice cream foodie and this definitely met my standards! Service was pretty good and efficient, I'm pretty excited to come back!

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    Pete W.

    Delicious treat on Salem st. The people working here are cool and listen to good music. They make their ice cream themselves which is quite rare in the ice cream industry. Great spot if you want something other than cannolis and gelato in the North End.

    Cookie dough, flourless cookie
    Eva A.

    Homemade! The owner literally makes the ice cream in a machine in shop. They usually have dairy free flavors, but they ran out and we didn't have time to wait for it to be made. The owner was super nice and offered a cookie on the house instead or lactaid! The ice cream itself was good, but the vanilla lacked in flavor. The fudge brownie was very rich and the cookie dough was decent, but with the vanilla base so it was sweet but not super flavorful. The portions were decently large, I couldn't even finish one scoop. Overall would go again!

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    2 months ago

    Ice cream was AMAZING, so creamy I threw up! I recommend getting the raspberry choc chip!

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    11 months ago

    They did not accommodate for my nut allergy at all. Very disappointing. The ambiance was nice though.

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    8 months ago

    Great service. Delicious options. Great location. And they are open late which is perfect.

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    8 months ago

    Service was amazing and fun. Taro and pumpkin spice chai were great! Priced reasonably. Go!

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    They said the cookie dough ice cream had no nuts but it did and I threw up DO NOT RECOMMEND

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    The Grape Nut flavor is my absolute favorite. I also love when they have rice Krispy treat…read moreanything! I have had a ton of their scoops and the only flavor I have ever not liked was Burnt Caramel. I always make sure to take visitors here!

    I've heard folks raving about this place for years, so finally decided to swing by and try it out…read more First off, must say I'm a bit of a skeptic regarding specialty ice cream shops: with one exception (a now-defunct "frozen custard" shop in Friendswood, Texas of all places, where you could see the super-dense/rich stuff glacially oozing out of the machine, and one milkshake's worth of it kept me full for the rest of the day!) I have yet to find any that are significantly better than ordinary Haagen Daz from a supermarket. In fact, most ice cream parlour ice creams aren't even as good, while costing orders of magnitude more than supermarket H-D! Toscanini's is close to equal to H-D in my book...and mainly for the fact that they offer some truly unusual and original flavors: we had the Mango Sticky Rice, Burnt Caramel, and Kulfi. My friend who enjoyed the first one the most, quickly tired of the second, and the third was my favorite by far, mainly because I love cardamom and saffron so much. I was somewhat conflicted with the Burnt Caramel...first taste was delightful, but halfway through the novelty faded away for the most part. We both appreciated that the ice cream was not hyper-sweet like JP Licks, though. HOWEVER, the extreme creaminess, density, and dry mouth-feel of H-D was just not there, as usual. I'd describe the texture of Toscanini's ice cream to be fairly ordinary, like a typical soft/smooth gelato texture. Not bad, but not anything I would really write home about. YMMV of course. Otherwise, service was good and the place is clean and pleasantly modern inside, with 3 nice new steel benches to sit at outside. The benches are curiously turned AWAY from the street, I suppose to foster more of a "communal" vibe and people-watching opportunities. I've walked by during peak hours and seen it quite full, so this place clearly is still quite popular. At $8.25 for 3 scoops (albeit fairly generous sized scoops) of oh, 8 out of 10 ice cream, I don't see myself ever becoming a regular here despite the undeniably interesting/unique flavors, unless I came mainly for the people-watching opps on a nice weather day.

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    4.2(119 reviews)
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    My friend and I were on the hunt for a good ice cream spot that gave the "farm fresh ice cream"…read morevibe and we came across Dairy Freeze during our search. The ice cream itself was sooo good. I got my usual: soft serve twist with rainbow sprinkles in a waffle cone. The cone was so fresh and flavorful, the rainbow sprinkles also tested fresh (I love when the sprinkles have their own distinct taste. That's how you know they're fresh), and the soft serve was cold and creamy. The dream. My friend got the cookie dough hard ice cream in a waffle cone and she really liked it too. The ordering/waiting lines were wild. Idk if it was an off-night when we went, but there were at least 15 people standing around waiting for their ice cream while we were in line ordering. Then it came our time to wait and it took 12 minutes just to get these 2 cones out. The kitchen was closed by the time we were there too, so no one was waiting on food. We were all waiting on an ice cream cone. I feel for them - it was a hectic summer night and everyone wants good ice cream - but I honestly hadn't seen anything quite like this before!

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    Didn't have huge expectations for this place, but we were pleasantly surprised by the portion size…read moreand overall taste/consistency of the ice cream. Came here for dessert on a Wednesday evening and there was no line - super quick. Service was super friendly and kind enough to let us try as many flavors as we liked. We settled on two flavors and got plenty of both - huge cup and scoops. They don't skimp which I love! The space also had tons of seating so we ate quickly and left without any issue. They were also doing trivia in the same area which was cool. If we're ever in the area again, I would gladly stop by!

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