Summer season? You mean ice cream every night season.
You know the drill – Perry’s in the freezer, couple times a week treat yourself to a sundae at your favorite local shop down the street.
Generally, if you’re looking for delicious ice cream – Western New York is the place to be. With so many spots serving Perry’s ice cream, you really can’t go wrong no matter where you turn. But this post is dedicated to the ice cream shops who are doin’ it themselves, serving up homemade ice cream and making after dinner dreams come true across Buffalo and WNY.
Did we miss one? Tell us about it at editorial@stepoutbuffalo.com!
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1. 2 Scoops Ice Cream
4626 Camp Rd, Hamburg / Website
This Hamburg ice cream shop makes homemade custards, with a new feature flavor each week.
2. Anderson’s Frozen Custard
Multiple Locations – Buffalo / Williamsville / Kenmore / Cheektowaga / Lancaster / Amherst
Get Anderson’s homemade hard ice cream and custard at any of their 6 locations.
3. Antoinette’s Sweets
5981 Transit Rd, Depew / Website
Antoinette’s™ has been serving up homemade candy and ice cream to the Western New York area for three generations. Here you’ll find homemade ice cream as well as toppings and syrups.
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4. Churn Soft Serve
1501 Hertel Ave, Buffalo / Website
Churn’s soft serve is made from grass fed milk with natural, minimal processing and can be topped with a unique selection of ingredients. They skip the artificial flavors, colorings, and stabilizers, offering fresh and tasty small batch soft serve.
5. Fran-Ceil Custard
3411 South Park Ave, Blasdell / Website
Fran-Ceil Custard serves homemade sherbet using the original recipe from 40 years ago, passed on by the original owners.
6. Hertel Avenue Poutine and Cream
1488 Hertel Ave, Buffalo / Website
Get homemade hard ice cream by the scoop or in a freak shake or creamy bun.
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7. Hibbard’s Original Frozen Custard
125 Portage Rd, Lewiston / Website
Locally Owned and Operated by the Hibbard Family since 1939, this family run shop makes custard fresh throughout the day. They also use a specially designed custard machine that allows for less air to get pumped into the custard, leaving you with a creamier, richer treat than ice cream.
8. King Condrell’s Candy & Ice Cream
2805 Delaware Ave, Kenmore / Website
King Condrell’s not only makes their own ice cream, but they offer an old-school ice cream parlor vibe and a menu that goes on for days.
9. Lake Effect Ice Cream – Hertel
1900 Hertel Ave, Buffalo / Website
Lake Effect offers a huge variety of homemade hard ice cream flavors featured in fun sundae concoctions and pints to go.
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10. Lake Effect Ice Cream – Lockport
79 Canal Street, Lockport / Website
Lake Effect offers a huge variety of homemade hard ice cream flavors featured in fun sundae concoctions and pints to go.
11. Main Street Ice Cream
35 Main St, Hamburg / Website
Main Street Ice Cream makes a wide array of homemade, small batch, hand-crafted hard ice cream flavors. Plus, they are home to Two Berry Twist…a soft serve blend of black raspberry yogurt and red raspberry sherbet – a local favorite.
12. Nick Charlap’s Ice Cream
Multiple Locations – Boston / Hamburg / West Seneca / Elmwood / Angola
Nick Charlap’s specialty is producing premium homemade hard ice cream of which they offer 40+ flavors. You’ll find flavors like Cinnamon, Bourbon Praline Pecan, Cotton Candy, Peppermint Stick, and Cashew Caramel Crunch across 5 WNY locations.
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13. Sweet Jenny’s
56 E. Spring St, Williamsville / Website
Sweet Jenny’s Ice Cream is made using a unique micro batch freezing technique, preventing air from whipping into the cream resulting in a thick, rich product. Their most popular 12 flavors are available every day in addition to a ton more which appear on a rotating basis.
14. Sweet Life Desserts
This locally owned all-dessert restaurant makes their hand-crafted ice cream in-house every day.
15. The Pink Cow
13119 Broadway, Alden, NY 14004 / Website
The Pink Cow is a popular favorite in Alden with shakes, soft serve and hard ice cream options.
Did we miss one? Tell us about it at editorial@stepoutbuffalo.com!
