Scoops Review

Cuisine: Ice Cream. Specialties: Brown Bread, Vanilla and Salt. Location: 712 N Heliotrope Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90029. Price: $2.75 for 2 scoops. $5.75 for 6 scoops. In LA’s perfect weather, can there be a more ideal food than ice cream? And yet, somehow LA seems like it’s light years behind the East Coast’s ice cream...

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Chinatown Ice Cream Factory

Cuisine: Ice Cream. Specialty: Chinese Flavors. Location: 65 Bayard Street, New York, NY 10013. Price: $7 for 3 scoops, but the bowl is huge. Most all critics consider New York the heart of culinary America. Yet for all of New York’s culinary might, there is one food I’ve never been able to find in any good form, and it just so...

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Toscanini’s

Cuisine: American Ice Cream. Location: 899 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-3512. Price: $4 for 1 Large Scoop, $5 for 2. While in Boston, I’ve had a few culinary surprises. While I fully expected to find some of the best cannolis I’ve ever tasted and some extraordinary clam chowder, I’ve begun to realize the richness of the...

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Capogiro Gelato

Cuisine: Gelato. Location: 4 Locations in Philadelphia. I went to the one at 119 South 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Price: $4+ for a Small (2 Flavors), About $6 for a Medium (3 Flavors). Like I’ve said before, when I went to Philly, one of the things that struck me most was just how good the ice cream was. My first...

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Christina’s Homemade Ice Cream

Specialty: American Ice Cream Location: 1255 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Price: $3 for a Small, $4 for a Medium I had recently eaten at Toscanini’s, perhaps the most famous ice creamery in Boston, featuring a young, trendy atmosphere that draws everyone from the youngest to the oldest. In fact, I was almost...

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Bassetts Ice Cream

Specialty: American Ice Cream Location: Reading Terminal Market, 45 N 12th St, Philadelphia, PA 19107 Price: HUGE Double Scoop Waffle Cone for $5, $4.25 for a 3-Scoop Cup. When I went to Philadelphia, I expected to get some good food, but never would I have thought that I’d end up finding amazing ice cream—it was so good, in...

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Margie’s Candies

Cuisine: American-Style Ice Cream, Chocolate. Specialty: Sundaes, Homemade Hot Fudge, Chocolate. Location: 1960 N Western Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647. Price: About $5-$6 for the gigantic sundaes, $13 for a box of 32 chocolates. Most really good ice cream these days tends to come out of very modern shops without much history—places...

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Milkshakes at The Diner

Cuisine: American Diner. Specialty: Milkshakes. Location: 2453 18th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20009. Price: $5 for the Milkshakes. It’s no secret that I love ice cream. If there’s one ice cream concoction that I love the most, though, it’s the milkshake. I was pretty excited, then, when a friend told me about The...

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Chicago on the Way!

All you foodies out there will be glad to know that I’m in the process of prepping a new Chicago section to my website. Though I’ve been focusing mostly on the Boston food scene lately, I recently had the chance to sneak out to Chicago for a week-long visit. While I didn’t get through everything I wanted, I did...

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Dolcezza

Cuisine: Argentine Gelato Location: A Few Locations in DC. Main Storefront at 1560 Wisconsin Ave., NW. Price: $5 for a small cup While I was in Argentina, I had some of the best gelato I’ve ever had in my life. With such a rich Italian immigrant community (in fact, it’s estimated that the vast majority of Argentines have at...

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