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  1. Address
    106 Mott St, New York, NY, United States · Manhattan
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Wed 10 AM

    Tuesday 10 AM–8 PM

    Online
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  2. Address
    2000 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Wed noon

    Tuesday Noon–9 PM

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  3. Rank 74. The Little One NYC

    Japanese Dessert





  4. Address
    1436 W Blackhawk St, Chicago, IL, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Wed 1 PM

    Tuesday 1 PM–9 PM

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  5. Rank 110. Cream of the Crop

    Ice Cream Shop

    A small-batch ice cream shop inside a converted Quonset hut in Gilbert's Barnone complex, with a rotating handful of flavors that leans toward combinations like date and orange blossom or strawberry and rose water. The menu is short by design, and classics like mint chip share the case with vegan sorbets. You won't find thirty tubs here, which turns out to be beside the point when each one is this carefully made.


    Address
    3000 E Ray Rd, Unit 6, Gilbert, AZ, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 35 min

    Tuesday Noon–9 PM

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  6. Rank 110. LIX Uptown Ice Cream

    Dairy-Free Ice Cream Shop

    Nearly two-thirds of the world can't digest lactose, and this funky scoop shop in Uptown Phoenix has quietly built its menu around that fact. Almost everything is lactose- or dairy-free, served in a room full of neon paintings, mannequin heads, and board games that make it feel less like an ice cream shop and more like a very chill art installation. The mango sticky rice sorbet and the Gansito cake-inspired flavor are the ones regulars debate. Pints available for the road.


  7. The ice cream sandwich here comes on a fresh-sliced doughnut, which is either genius or a personal liability depending on your self-control. This small-batch ice cream shop keeps a core menu of eight flavors, rotates in new ones weekly, and does fruit sorbets for the dairy-free crowd. The original location sits in a tiny historic building on Grand Avenue, which gives it more character than a strip mall scoop shop ever could.


    Address
    1028 Grand Ave, Unit 6, Phoenix, AZ, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Tuesday Noon–Midnight

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  8. Rank 113. 626 Hospitality Group

    Chinese Bakery


  9. This is a gelateria in a Shea Boulevard shopping center, where you order on an iPad before you ever meet a human, which feels very Scottsdale until the scoops arrive. Flavors lean adventurous, with mesquite honey lavender and a ricotta studded with fig sharing the case with mint cookies and cream. You can taste before committing, and each cup or cone gets a crisp wafer on top. Cheap enough, casual enough, flip-flops welcome.


    Address
    6990 E. Shea Blvd., #106, Scottsdale, AZ, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 35 min

    Tuesday 1 PM–9 PM

    Online
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  10. Address
    2009 N Bissell St, Chicago, IL, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10:30 PM

    Tuesday Noon–10:30 PM

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  11. Rank 113. Biddrina Gelato

    Italian Dessert


    Address
    22 Orchard St, New York, NY, United States · Manhattan
    Hours

    Closes soon, 11 PM, in 35 min

    Tuesday 11 AM–11 PM

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  12. Address
    5144 E Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Tuesday 11 AM–10 PM

    Online
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  13. Address
    534 S Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Tuesday Noon–10 PM

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  14. Rank 113. Buttermilk Baby

    Ice Cream Shop



  15. Rank 113. Chè Dessert Lounge

    Filipino Dessert


  16. Rank 113. Cheaters Creamery

    Ice Cream Shop

    Cheaters Creamery is an ice cream truck that has the nerve to make you drive to it, which feels like a bait and switch until you're at the window deciding between black sesame and vegan mango sticky rice. You can get three scoops with a cherry on top, a milkshake blending up to three flavors, or a scoop pressed between a warm powdered-sugar doughnut. Call ahead, since the freezer's lineup shifts.


  17. Rank 113. Cloud 10 Creamery

    Small-batch Ice Cream Shop


  18. The bingsu at this Capitol Hill sweet shop arrives on an unlit portable burner, which is more of a theatrical prop than anything functional, and you will make a mess. Each composed dessert stacks fresh fruit, cheesecake or brownie chunks, and a scoop of ice cream over milk shaved into long, coconut-like flakes. A sidecar of condensed milk covers for the housemade fruit sauce, which runs out of momentum before it reaches the bottom.


  19. Rank 113. Cold Truth

    Vegan Ice Cream Shop



  20. Address
    8207 Long Point Rd, Houston, TX 77055, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9:30 PM, in 5 min

    Tuesday Noon–9:30 PM

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  21. Rank 113. Creamy Boys

    Retro New Zealand


    Address
    1136 Hermosa Ave, Hermosa Beach, CA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Tuesday Noon–10 PM

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  22. Rank 113. Custard Corner

    Ice Cream Shop



  23. Rank 113. Dolce Neve Gelato

    Ice Cream Shop


    Address
    4721 N Main St, Houston, TX 77009, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Wed 1 PM

    Tuesday 1 PM–9 PM

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  24. Rank 113. Doug's Delight

    Ice Cream Shop

    Doug's Delight is a Hazel Park ice cream stand that makes its soft-serve in-house and fills cream puffs with it, which is a lot of structural engineering for something you eat in a parking lot. The hard stuff comes from Guernsey Dairy. There's an off-menu cup with a dog treat for the pup in the back seat, and an Italian beef counter inside, run by a Chicagoan, in case you need a savory excuse.




  25. Rank 113. Gati Cafe

    Vegan Ice Cream Shop





  26. Address
    2912 Main St, Santa Monica, CA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Tuesday 11:30 AM–10 PM

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  27. Rank 113. Hokey Pokey LA

    New Zealand Dessert



  28. Address
    600 N Shepherd Dr, Houston, TX 77009, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 10 PM, in 35 min

    Tuesday Noon–10 PM

    Online
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  29. Address
    3377 Wilshire Blvd, Unit 116, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Tuesday Noon–Midnight

    Online
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  30. Rank 113. Huddle Soft Serve

    Ice Cream Shop


  31. Rank 113. Indigo Cow

    Japanese


    Address
    1710 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Tuesday Noon–10 PM

    Online
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  32. Rank 113. Island Pops

    Caribbean Dessert


    Address
    670 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Wed 3 PM

    Tuesday 3 PM–9 PM

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  33. Address
    375 W 19th St, Houston, TX, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Tuesday Noon–Midnight

    Online
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  34. Address
    1719 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 1 AM

    Tuesday Noon–1 AM

    Online
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  35. Rank 113. Kuih Cafe

    Malaysian Dessert



  36. Address
    1159 W Taylor St, Chicago, IL, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10:30 PM

    Tuesday Noon–10:30 PM

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  37. Rank 113. Kwality Ice Cream

    Indian Ice Cream Shop


  38. Rank 113. Kwality Ice Cream

    North Indian Ice Cream Shop


  39. Rank 113. L'Albero dei gelati

    Italian Dessert


    Address
    341 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Wed 1:30 PM

    Tuesday 1:30 PM–10 PM

    Online
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  40. Rank 113. Lai Rai

    Vietnamese Wine Bar


  41. Rank 113. Lappert's Ice Cream

    Hawaiian Dessert


  42. Rank 113. Last Call Ice Cream

    Persian Ice Cream Shop


  43. Rank 113. Legend Tasty House

    Ice Cream Shop


    Address
    2242 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Tuesday 11:30 AM–11 PM

    Online
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  44. An ice cream shop that names a flavor after Lady Bird Johnson's favorite wildflower is telling you something about itself. Lick keeps things small-batch and seasonal, pulling milk and cream from Texas dairies and swapping flavors as ingredients hit their peak. Honey vanilla and horchata sit alongside roasted beets and fish mint, which is either a very brave move or a very confident one, depending on how you feel about beets.



  45. Address
    6056 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 10 PM, in 35 min

    Tuesday Noon–10 PM

    Online
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  46. Rank 113. LUMI Dessert Cafe

    Korean Dessert


    Address
    15350 NE Bel Red Rd Ste 110, Redmond, WA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Tuesday 1 PM–11 PM

    Online
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  47. Address
    505 E Oakey Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Tuesday 1 PM–10 PM

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  48. Rank 113. Magnolia’s Ice Cream & More

    Mexican Ice Cream Shop

    Magnolia's is a Mexican chuchería in the Greater East End, which means ice cream is only the starting point before the chamoy, the Tajín, and the sour worms take over. Gushers can end up on a banana split, and the milkshakes come buried in fruit syrup and candy. It's cheap, loud, and sticky in the best tradition of the genre. Go after school lets out only if you enjoy negotiating with a pack of ten-year-olds.



  49. Address
    2660 Griffith Park Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Tuesday Noon–10 PM

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  50. Rank 113. Margie's Candies

    Old-School Dessert


  51. Rank 113. Me-Do Desserts

    Chinese Dessert


    Address
    3 Bay 25th St, Brooklyn, NY, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 11 PM, in 35 min

    Tuesday 1 PM–11 PM

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  52. Milk + Sugar is an ice cream shop built on a simple premise: take desserts people already love and turn them into scoops. The case holds sixteen flavors, twelve permanent and four that rotate, with cheesecake and horchata among them. There's also a pandan-and-chrysanthemum swirl the owner added nervously and then couldn't keep stocked. Order it in a brown sugar waffle cone. Houstonia put it on its list of the city's best ice cream shops.


  53. Milk + Sugar is an ice cream shop built on the premise that your favorite desserts would be even better frozen, which is how strawberry almond cheesecake and a dulce de horchata end up in the same case. There are sixteen flavors, a quarter of them seasonal, plus a pandan-and-chrysanthemum swirl the owner added nervously and now can't keep stocked. Order it in the brown sugar waffle cone and expect a short line.


  54. Rank 113. Modern Cone

    Ice Cream Shop


  55. Rank 113. Momento Gelato and Coffee

    Italian Ice Cream Shop




  56. Address
    1397 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Wed 12:30 PM

    Tuesday 12:30 PM–9 PM

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  57. Rank 113. Novel Ice Cream

    Ice Cream Shop

    This Mesa outpost of Novel is a small scoop shop at the end of an alley, which is the kind of location you find only if someone sent you, or if you're very committed to a hunch. Flavors run unconventional, think peppermint mocha or peanut butter and jelly, and the local collaborations rotate through. Ask for a Dough Melt, a warm doughnut stuffed with ice cream, and order the waffle version by name if you're a Parks and Rec person.


  58. Onyx is a soft-serve shop on North Seventh that looks closed from the street until you spot the neon "open" sign, which is the first of several lighting decisions. Inside it's all black-and-white walls, dancing LED bars, and a plant wall built for photos. The swirls come out electric purple, orange, pink, and green in jet-black cones, and the flavors rotate weekly. A toasted marshmallow rim is available for anyone who wants more going on.



  59. Address
    23830 Hwy 99 #119A, Edmonds, WA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Tuesday Noon–10 PM

    Online
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  60. Rank 113. PLK1848

    Ice Cream Shop

    An ice cream brand built around the flavors of the African diaspora, PLK1848 sells its pints online with pickup in the Heights, the address arriving by email after you order. The caramel Buckshot comes loaded with Ethiopian praline and chocolate stracciatella; the Zobo hibiscus sorbet pulls from West African tradition. Every pint doubles as a history lesson, which is a thing you can say about very few freezer items.



  61. Address
    2353 N California Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Wed noon

    Tuesday Noon–9 PM

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  62. Address
    6838 Ranchester Dr, Houston, TX, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, 10 PM, in 35 min

    Tuesday 3 PM–10 PM

    Online
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  63. Rank 113. Rocambolesc

    Spanish Ice Cream Shop



  64. Address
    6815 Tom Rodriguez St, Las Vegas, NV, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Tuesday 11 AM–11 PM

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  65. Rank 113. Sarisa Cafe

    Thai Dessert


    Address
    243 E 53rd St, FL 2, New York, NY, United States · Manhattan
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Wed 3 PM

    Tuesday 3 PM–9 PM

    Reserve
    Resy
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  66. Rank 113. Scoop & Joy

    Ice Cream Shop


  67. Rank 113. ScoopLV

    Dessert


    Address
    7377 S Jones Blvd, Unit 115, Las Vegas, NV, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Tuesday 2 PM–Midnight

    Online
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  68. Scooptopia is a small ice cream shop on Central Avenue, a satellite of the Scooptacular operation out in Laveen, serving a wide run of that kitchen's flavors. The scoops lean playful, with Playdough in three pastel stripes, bubble gum, and birthday cake. Sundaes and milkshakes are on offer too, so you can eat dessert in the shape of a meal. Expect a short line, a paper cup, and no dress code.



  69. Address
    3377 S Las Vegas Blvd, Unit 2255, Las Vegas, NV, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Tuesday 10 AM–Midnight

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  70. Rank 113. Sorry Not Sorry Creamery

    Small-Batch Ice Cream Shop


  71. Rank 113. Sucré

    Ice Cream Shop

    Sucré is a pastry-and-gelato shop in Rice Village that looks like it was ordered from a Hallmark Channel set catalog. Macarons sit in neat rows, French pastries get their own displays, and the gelato and sorbetto cases are where the colors really let go. The strawberry gelato carries actual chunks of fruit, and the blood orange sorbetto, when it's around, brings some bitter rind along. Dress for a stroll, not a sit-down.





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