



The owner, Pat, has operated this place for years and has own delicious recipe for soft serve that clearly stands out. The best soft serve “ice cream” is found in Southington at Pat’s Main Street Ice Cream. We have visited many of these dairy bars and the one that stands out to us is the Durham Dairy Serve that has a loyal following for this seasonal shop. Usually just a take out window with no indoor seating but perhaps some picnic tables around the perimeter and they seem to offer both commercially available hard ice cream and soft serve. Honeycone uses locally sourced, home grown additions that keep a certain purity to their concoctions.ĭairy bars are an interesting species of the ice cream shops. But one clearly stands out, Honeycone Cream Company on main street in the charming Connecticut River town Chester. There are many creameries in Connecticut that make their own ice cream products on site and all have their unique spin on these delights. In addition to some rich, creamy ice cream We-Lik-It has some truly crazy flavors. We have sampled ice cream at at-least ten farms across Connecticut and the the best of the best is We-Lik-It in Pomfret up in the quiet corner on Connecticut. There are a number of farms that produce their own ice cream and other dairy products. For my mid-quest review I am rating the following: farms, creameries, dairy bars, commercial brands, soft serve, and milk shakes. There is quite a variety in Connecticut’s ice cream trade. We have sampled “ice cream” in the four corners of the State and have had some real surprises. Soft Serve is an example of a dairy product.Īt this point we have been all over the State but the only county we have completed is Middlesex, where we live. I am referring to ice cream in quotes because as I have learned ice cream must have at least ten percent butterfat to be considered ice cream and some of these fine establishments have up to 18 percent butterfat…pure yum!!! If it has less than 10 percent this is referred to as dairy products. After five years we are half way in our quest to sample “ice cream” in every town in Connecticut.
