Category: Restaurants

With the official start of summer, it’s ice cream season. Though ice cream is surely a year-round treat.

Going to a shop that sells ice cream can be difficult because of concerns for ingredients in the ice cream and chances of cross contact from shared scoops and bits of cones.

I’ve successfully enjoyed ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s and Jeni’s where both have allergen information available and happily use clean scoops from previously unopened containers.

I can now add Graeter’s to the list. I was at the Pinecrest location and there is also one at Crocker Park. They prominently display an allergy warning advising not to get scooped ice cream in the shop because of cross contact concerns. They do have a freezer with pints available for sale and many of the flavors are labelled gluten free.

A pint is a lot of ice cream to eat and I had no way to get leftovers home without melting. I was prepared to skip the treat. But the manager suggested I buy a pre-packed scoop offered at the same price as an in-store scoop. They are not on display but the manager retrieved one for me. Only four flavors were available but one was their signature flavor, black raspberry chocolate chip. The other choices were mint chip, vanilla or chocolate. The package had nutritional and ingredient information and included a gluten free claim.