Best of Boston
Best Ice Cream
2004 Best Ice Cream
Toscanini
Cambridge
There are plenty of Boston ice cream shops worthy of caloric indulgence, but none as enticing as this one. The selection may not be the [...] read more»
2004 Best Ice Cream, South
Farfar’s
Duxbury
Maybe you hate the beach. Maybe beautiful homes and manicured lawns make you sick. If you're an ice cream lover, you still have one great [...] read more»
2004 Best Ice Cream, North
Benson’s Homemade Ice Cream
Boxford
A sweet roadside stand that serves handmade ice cream from local cows' milk, scooped by fresh-faced neighborhood teens on summer break—Benson's is straight off the [...] read more»
2003 Best Ice Cream
Christina’s Homemade Ice Cream
Cambridge
With all due respect to the old-fashioned flavors at Brigham's and the rich, smooth scoops at Toscanini's, we keep coming back to Christina's. This Inman [...] read more»
2003 Best Ice Cream, South
Farfar’s Danish Ice Cream Shop
Duxbury
The real ice-cream aficionado's conundrum: Once you've gone Danish, you'll never go back. If that Danish is Farfar's, however, you'll go back repeatedly. This isn't [...] read more»
2002 Best Ice Cream
Christina’s Homemade Ice Cream
Cambridge
You know the contenders as well as we do, and the good-natured competition they generate is making area ice cream better by the minute. Case [...] read more»
2002 Best Ice Cream, South
Farfar’s Danish Ice Cream Shop
Duxbury
For decades, this much-adorned creamery has been the real reason why school kids in Duxbury yearn for summer and dads in whale belts try to [...] read more»
2001 Best Ice Cream
Toscanini’s
Cambridge
Toscanini's understands that life can be as simple as vanilla and chocolate or as complicated as burnt caramel or gingersnap molasses. Whatever your philosophical fancy, [...] read more»
2000 Best Ice Cream, Far
Erikson’s Dairy
Maynard
All of the ice creams at Erikson's—a fourth-generation outfit that's been around for 63 years—are unbelievably rich and thick, and thankfully not too sweet. It [...] read more»