In no particular order

Amy’s Ice Creams
3500 Guadalupe
Austin, TX
512.458.6895

Owner Amy Simons uses natural ingredients and locally produced dairy product.

Carl’s
2200 Princess Anne St
Fredericksburg, VA

This stand serves “old school” vanilla, chocolate and strawberry frozen custard.

Dr Bob’s Handcrafted IceCreams
155 East C Street
Upland, CA
909.920.1966

Savuer’s favorite: Scharfeen Berger Really Dark Chocolate and Tahitian Vanilla

Dr Mike’s Ice Cream
158 Greenwood Ave
Bethel, CT
203.792.4388

Graeter’s
2145 Reading Road
Cincinnati, OH
800.721.3323

Since 1870, the Graeter family has made ice cream in two-gallon batches suing the artisanal French-pot method.

The Grande Ole Creamery
750 Grand Ave
St Paul, MN
651.293.1655

160 flavors

Herrell’s Ice Cream
8 Old South St
Northampton, MA
413.586.9700

choose just about any candy, fruit, nut and Herrell’s will mix it with one of the 136 flavors

Maple View Farm
6900 Rocky Ridge Rd
Hillsborough, NC
919.960.5535

Get the full rural experience at this farmstead ice cream shop as you settle into a rocking chair on the porch

Mitchell’s Ice Cream
688 San Jose Ave
Cisco, CA
415.648.2300

Mango and purple yam trump vanilla at this family owned institution

Shatila Bakery & Café
14300 W Warren Ave
Dearborn, MI
313.582.1952

serves Middle Eastern ice cream – thick, satin smooth and available in flavors like rose, pistachio, mango, cantaloupe, and apricot, along with very good chocolate, vanilla and mocha

Ted Drewes Frozen Custard
6726 Chippewa St
314.481.2652

die-hard fans wait in line for the “concrete”, a shake of frozen custard so thick that it won’t drip out of a cup turned upside down.

Toscanini’s Ice Cream
899 Main St
Cambridge, MA
617.491.5877

amazingly rich and creamy and offered in grown up flavors like Guiness, cardamom-spiked Khulfee, Cocoa Pudding or Burnt Caramel

As listed in Saveur Magazine (June/July 2005)