Some neighborhood institutions are just not to be trifled with. On hot days, and even some cloudy, murky ones when the people just gotta have ice cream, the line snakes and curves all the way to Fifth Street. Waiting for signature flavors like Cold Smoke and Coconut is a local’s rite of passage. And in perhaps the most brilliant feat of free marketing ever concocted, on those warm summer nights, as you calmly lap your green tea ice cream, you can look up into the sky and see the
Big Dipper’s logo shining down on you from space.
Big Dipper: 631 S. Higgins; 543-5722;
bigdippericecream.com
Finalists, Best Ice Cream
2. Dairy Queen
Multiple Locations;
549-6075;
dairyqueen.com
3. Cold Stone Creamery
3275 N. Reserve;
549-5595;
coldstonecreamery.com