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    The Maine Scoop

    4.4 (14 reviews)
    Closed 12:00 pm - 10:00 PM
    Updated 2 months ago

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    Artie A.

    We were very excited to come down and try The Maine Scoop! However, I should have known not to try it on a Sunday the line was almost to the road, and VERY slow moving. I ordered the peanut butter Oreo, and frankly disappointed. They either accidentally gave me just an Oreo ice cream, or this is the weakest peanut butter flavoring ever! My wife got a vanilla soft serve with rainbow sprinkles. She says the ice cream was decent, pretty average but the sprinkles we "atrocious "! Quite waxy and almost "wet" when we finally got the order. My 3.5yo got the raspberry sorbet and we received no complaints! Likely won't try again as I cannot justify the pricing and dealing with slow lines with children. Just your typical tourist trap.

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    Bill D.

    We had a great experience at this new ice cream shop in Scarborough! If you remember Bayley's Ice Cream, this is in their place now. The staff is new, but very helpful. The decor is perfect for a New England ice cream shop, too! We all enjoyed our various treats. We can't wait to come back to try some more treats!

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    3 months ago

    The ice cream is fresh and delicious with lots of choices. Even when busy the service was terrific !!

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    11 months ago

    Love this place! Super cute family owned, the ice cream was great I got a scoop of cookie dough and a scoop of Heath bar! Great stuff

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    Super cute family owned, the ice cream was great I got a scoop of cookie dough and a scoop of Heath bar!

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    4.5
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    What a great place! We stopped here to see what it was all about. We had ice cream, we saw cows,…read moreand we paid to go into the area where there was lots of animals. We even fed goats and deer. We pet babies, we loved seeing the different birds. There were peacocks! It was fun, relaxing, cool in the shade. The food part is big enough to eat and relax. Ice cream was delicious. I would go back! People that worked there were really nice too.

    You scream. I…read morescream. We all scream... for site made ice cream on a working Maine dairy farm ! This is a special place... a farm on a hill with their own farm shop featuring glass-bottled milk, sandwiches, and most importantly... Ice Cream ! Starting mid-April or so, they open up "The Barnyard" which is a nice little petting zoo for the kids... and occasionally a "Goat Yoga" spot for adults... which is just so uniquely crazy it almost makes me wish I did yoga. Not into yoga...? I get you. Lucky for us, they also have a hardware store / lumber yard, so you could feasibly come for Mocha Chip and stay for the 4x4 milled posts, and that's not an experience you'll soon get at a national big-box lumber store. Or a Baskin Robbins, for that matter. This place is an experience. The farm is gorgeous, the staff are friendly, the animals are fun, the lumber yard is definitely there, and the product... well that's where it's at... it's excellent. There are a few working dairy farms like this one dotted around the state, and I encourage you to check out each and every one. Smiling Hill Farm is that extra special sort of place, where it's only a few miles drive outside of Portland, but it feels worlds away and it's so, so worth the effort to get to. They also have ready-to-go quarts in the freezer, their various dairy offerings, and rotating, seasonal farm shop fare. Support your local farmers! Also... I've found the local barn cats to be super friendly and just a treat to hang with. YMMV

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    Mount Desert Island Ice Cream

    Mount Desert Island Ice Cream

    4.3
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    8.9 mi
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    I'd get this again and again. I got Sea Salt Caramel,…read more Cookies and Sweet Cream, Plain Chocolate, Lemon Poppyseed w Blueberry Jam. Loved it all around although we wish we could've sampled the flavors as we wouldn't have ended up getting the Lemon poppyseed. It wasn't quite what we expected. Sea Salt Caramel was delish but def very very salty.

    Really good ice cream. The shop has no seating - it's really just about getting premium ice cream…read moreand then walking around Old Port afterward. I've tried the sweet cream, strawberry, callebut chocolate, and Maine blueberry. Sweet cream was solid. The strawberry is unique - seems to have very high strawberry content, so it ends up almost tasting like an ice cream-sorbet hybrid in comparison to say Haagez Dazs which is more cream-forward. The chocolate was also great. I was hoping that the Maine blueberry would essentially taste like a black raspberry ice cream but it just tasted like blueberry, which I suppose should come as no surprise. It was a little too sweet and not my favorite but maybe true blueberry-lovers would like it. I read a bit online about how they don't do samples in order to keep costs down and also keep people moving in and out of the shop quickly. It's an interesting model but ultimately it feels like they are prioritizing saving marginal costs at the expense of the experience of the customer. Maybe they save tens of thousands of disposable spoons by doing this, but when it comes to a person's individual experience in the store wanting to optimize getting a flavor they like, that gets sacrificed. Sort of opposite of customer-first. Some of their flavors are also pretty unique like lemon poppy seed with a jam mixed in and it's hard to anticipate what that'll be like. I also think a homemade waffle cone as opposed to the bought ones they have available would be a major upgrade here. Overall, great ice cream with a few things that could be better.

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