It's won a couple consecutive awards for "Number 1 Ice Cream On the Seacoast" so I was intrigued to see if it lived up to that.
I was certainly...not the only one interested. The open air, cottage style ice cream stand across from Jennes Beach was packed on the Saturday night I stopped by. Nowhere to park, nowhere to sit, and a very long line. The atmosphere was fairly convivial though and it's much nicer to sit on the sea wall than on some boring picnic table.
Prices were very reasonable, especially for the amount of ice cream you get (like any good ice cream place, order the small or "kiddie" size, the medium and large will be too much to handle). There are what looks like more than fifty flavors of ice cream, and several more of frozen yogurt, as well as seafood, hamburgers and hot dogs.
As far as the actual ice cream goes...it was great but I'm confused as to how it can be voted "best ice cream" when about a quarter of the flavors are the Gifford's brand, a collection of ice cream flavors manufactured in Maine and distributed to several restaurants, including ones as far north as Berlin. There are local ice cream shops that make all their own flavors.
But you can't beat the atmosphere, so I suppose that counts.
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