There was an absolutely delightful young man who served us. We were with a tour but were invited to try any flavor we liked before choosing a scoop. This is a gelato place, not ice cream for future reference. There plenty of tables and you can sit for as long as you like. The bathroom is clean and well-equipped which is great for the end of a tour! read more

I stopped in at Beal's for a cold treat after finishing dinner nearby. I've passed this place many times while walking around Old Port, but never had any real desire to check them out. However, I was in the mood for ice cream and this was calling me - so I decided to head in. Beal's is in a prime location in Old Port - right between Fore and Commercial Streets on a corner of a cobblestone alley. I went close to closing, so it wasn't crowded - though I can imagine being an ice cream shop in a seaside city they see a good amount of foot traffic during prime time. The interior is spacious with a decent amount of seating, plus some more outside. The decor is relatively simple with fun murals on the walls that add a pop of color. I decided to get a cup which came with my choice of two flavors - they had a good selection and I went with chocolate peanut butter cookie and another flavor that escapes my mind. The ice cream was fine - nothing too outstanding if I'm being honest but also not bad. Service was good, and overall I thought Beal's was fine. Nothing outstanding IMO but also nothing bad. If circumstances found me here again I wouldn't be mad. read more

Beal's Ice Cream - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

Ice cream is really good, the interior is really cute with some places to sit, and the staff is super nice and let us try the flavors we were considering getting! One star off because the prices are pretty high, my Sunday was only one scoop and I felt that was pretty overpriced for what you get. read more

Beal's Ice Cream - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

The blueberry ice cream is euphoric. I think the FBI is putting something in it to see what happens to the portlandians I am addicted.

Beal's is a great ice cream option in Old Port! Stopped in after the heat wave and tried the whoopie pie flavor. There were plenty of cake bits and the vanilla ice cream was solid! I will say it's a very soft ice cream and got melty fast so i was glad for my cup. I got a small which was actually HUGE! My scooper filled it above the top so the portion size was great for the price i paid ($5). There are a few seats inside and picnic tables in the alley to hang out on! read more

The ice cream was ok, quick service you go up and pixn your flavors and we got one of the flights to try more flavors. I've gotten flights other places with bigger portions and not as expensive, but I didn't really care for the ice cream. It was edible but I wouldn't recommend it or get ot again. read more

Beal's Ice Cream - 2 - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

Great family ice cream place. Very friendly staff, place to sit and eat inside if you wanted. Chocolate soft serve wasn't working, but the vanilla was good and the homemade waffle cones were a hit! read more

This is probably one of the most flavorful ice cream places I have had in a long while. Many options too choose from but they do have unique ones that I have not seen/tried in any other places. First off... Shout out to the 2 lovely young ladies running the place on a busy Saturday night. I really hope everyone tipped them well cause they were hustling and bustling in there non stop. The first unique flavor: almond butter flavor. I love the subtle taste with occasional burst of flavor of caramel and almonds as you keep eating it. I love flavors like this where it isn't in your face. Second unique flavor: coffee Oreo. Do you like coffee? How about Oreo? Then why not combine the two?! This one is a bit more intense but also balanced. Small shop located in Portland City; it'll be a good spot to just get ice cream to go. read more

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Beal's is Portland's quintessential, mom-and-pop-style, seaside ice cream joint. Great flavors, solid portions, and a great location right in the heart of Old Port? Perfect to pop in and enjoy inside their spacious spot, or head out onto the uneven cobblestone streets, and enjoy your ice cream while overlooking the water. Yum! read more

Upon entering, the place smelled amazing! It smelled of waffles and syrup. There was a long line but it went by quickly. We got one scoop for $5 and it was a pretty good size. I thought it was very cool that they made their own cones right at the shop as well. There was also a good selection of flavors and a section for sorbet and non dairy items. read more

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Great ice cream parlor in Portland! I had a scoop of the chocolate doughboy on a sugar cone. The ice cream was delicious and I was covered with ice cream by the time I finished. The staff here are very friendly and service is great! My friend had a strawberry shake which was thick and delicious as well. read more

What a delicious treat, steps away from our hotel. We had caramel stripe: a rich creamy dessert with just the right amount of sweetness. We'd go again! read more

Great little old-fashioned ice cream shop in the heart of Portland where everything is happening. In the basement of an old building with creaky floors, this jovial kinda place offers an extensive amount of flavors. I had the Apple Pie flavored ice cream last week and it was very rich and premium tasting with a wisp of air. I noticed they offered soft serve too, but the machine was down (but aren't they all usually, ie: McD). read more

Great ice cream! Definitely a place to pop into if you're walking around the city and looking for a quick treat.

Fantastic ice cream that's worth the wait! I had the banana split with Maine blueberry, strawberry, and chocolate. Hands down the best I've ever had. The girls working the counter were all very friendly and genuinely happy. Definitely stop in on your visit. This is the best shop in Portland! read more

Beal's Ice Cream - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

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Watermelon is so fresh and different! My daughter is so happy with her strawberry &raspberry flavor. read more

Beal's Ice Cream - Strawberry&raspberry, coffee&watermelon; French vanilla&coconut - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

This is kinda your average ice cream shop. The staff were really nice to allow us to try ice cream. I got Oreo dough in kiddie size which i was looking forward to because I'm a cookie dough fan but sadly there were only 2-3 cookie dough pieces in there. It essentially was chocolate cake pieces mixed into vanilla ice cream so kind of disappointing. My partner got the blueberry ice cream which was actually true to taste! A creamy wild blueberry flavor that isn't overbearing. I'm not sure I would return as there were other ice cream places in the area to try. read more

Beal's Ice Cream - Oreo dough - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

Super friendly staff. I got coffee heath bar. Was creamy, no freezer burn. Not too sweet. Mild to medium complexity. The first descriptor is pretty much 80-90 predominant flavor, the secondary is a dash 10% at most. Ex orange pineapple is mostly orange sherbet, with flakes of pineapple read more

Not the best ice cream I've ever had, but friendly service and the ice cream was still yummy. My girlfriend got coffee Oreo (or something like that?) and I got maple walnut. The inside is very spacious which I liked (lots of places in Portland feel pretty cramped and packed but not this place) and we didn't have to wait in line for too long. read more

Beal's Ice Cream - Sign out front :) - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

No matter the weather, I need to have my ice cream and if I'm on vacation, I'm having ice cream everyday! Such a cute place with so many options. Friendly staff that will let you sample whatever you want and are patient with you as you pick one of the many flavors they have to offer. Prices are decent, ice cream was delicious, what more is there to say?! read more

Great service and flavors of ice cream. Blueberry was absolutely delicious! The line moves quick and they are well organized read more

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This was such a disappointing ice cream shop. I'm always so excited to try out new ice cream places and it looked liked plenty of people were coming from here (maybe there was a better ice cream shop elsewhere tho), so we decided to try it out when walking by. I got 2 scoops, strawberry and cookies & cream. The strawberry was extremely artificial and had no taste with huge chunks of actual strawberry in them. The cookies & cream I got was probably not even real ice cream and it was contaminated with orange sherbet because they didn't wash their scoopers in between orders. I would not recommend this place and would rather have kept walking to another ice cream place within the area. read more

Beal's Ice Cream - Artificial strawberry, cookies & cream Mint chocolate chip in the back - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

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Great selection and plenty of tasters especially when they are not too busy. Quality ice cream with solid flavors. The servers are patient and friendly. Parking is challenging as it is located on the cool part of the waterfront with the ballast stone streets. So park and walk. read more

Beal's is legit. They have tons of flavors and the ones I sampled were good! This ice cream seems to tend on the creamier side, which I like, but isn't anywhere close to custard. The place is quite big for a downtown ice cream shoppe and there are a couple picnic tables and a dog park. The amount of flavors can be overwhelming, with a good cover of all the traditional flavors. I, however, had the blueberry topped pistachio. The blueberry had real blueberries and the pistachio had real whole pistachios. All this in a sugar cone was pretty expensive at about less than 5 bucks, but the scoops are huge and it was essentially my dinner. Wouldn't mind coming back again! read more

Beal's Ice Cream - Blueberry on pistachio - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

so I totally tried to come here several times but each time i walked in hoping there'd be a more exciting flavor and then decided to go elsewhere that I knew was amazing. NOTHING against this place at all, just not my vibe for ice cream. probably great for someone looking for classic shop flavors or with kids. hard scoop only, and more than one flavor costs more which is a huge bummer to me. my mom did end up getting a scoop of pb cookie cup, which was MASSIVE for a small. however she was very meh about it and when I tried a spoonful I was not impressed. however, I am sure for some old fashioned classic people looking for something familiar, this could be a hit. read more

Beal's Ice Cream - pb cup - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

Amazing! I get my birthday cake here every year and it never fails to amaze me how good it is! The staff has always been so kind!

I like to think of myself as a professional ice cream taster - I certainly have the booty to prove it. Ice cream is a food group for me. A life force. A giver of all things happy but, I was not feeling it at this place. Because they say their ice cream is homemade, I was expecting a creamy flavor explosion in my mouth but, what I got was a full of tiny ice crystals kinda grainy/stale ice cream with very mild flavor experience. It was Coffee Oreo so, I expected at least a little mouth pounding by coffee flavor but, it was more like a tiny tongue tap. Perhaps I came during a bad batch so, I'll have to give it one more try...for science. All that said; service was good, the line moved quick and smooth, and I was totally digging the flavor choices. read more

Having visited Portland on many occasions, I've always wondered about the ice cream here, not having the opportunity to sample because of the other choices in the area especially late in the evening. Having sampled the desserts and visited the shop, on a recent visit, my perception is mixed. The ice cream was not terrible but my experience with service seemed a bit inconvenienced. This was probably what I will remember the most about my visit here, just the fact that the service seemed tired. The prices for the shakes and floats seemed a pit pricey. In particular, a coffee freeze was over $6, which seemed a little more than normal. Overall I wouldn't necessarily require a stop here on future visits to Portland but if I was in the neighborhood and wanted ice cream pronto,.... read more

An afternoon in the Old Port means stopping into shops you've not yet experienced, and that sounds like a good time for me. We had a flight and some appetizers at Liquid Riot and then walked along window shopping when ice cream appeared in front of me...and as a proud chubby girl I said 'HELL YES', so we headed inside. Its location is the basement of an older building, which I'm a total fan of this set up. It was pretty nondescript - nothing standout or memorable. The teenage girls behind the counter were friendly enough, so we sampled a flavor then purchased said flavor immediately. We both got kiddie sized cones, which was plenty for us. I got the chocolate raspberry truffle (oh.my.gawd) and the husband got the moose trail - he was bummed out that there was only one peanut butter cup in his cone. It was a decent enough experience that I don't have anything bad to say about it, but it certainly wasn't memorable in any way. I'd definitely come back here before heading into a Ben&Jerry's, that's for sure. read more

Pretty tasty ice cream. Huge portions and the staff are incredibly friendly. I had the coconut almond bar which was unreal. Others in our group had the strawberry, sugarfree sorbet, and mint chip and were all incredibly satisfied with their choices. Amazing ice cream is hard to come by and this spot cranks out a legit product. Would come back here in a heartbeat. read more

Where's the chocolate chips in chocolate chip ice cream???? I don't know what's happened. been purchasing ice cream at Beals in Gorham for years, I live in Westbtook. Have been twice in 2021 and the chocolate chips in the chocolate chip ice cream are missing. More than 1/2 of a small serving was just vanilla ice cream. Guess I'm going to have to go to a competitor. read more

I NEEDED and I mean NEEDED a rootbeer float, lucky for me- I stumbled on this joint. The service was fast and efficient and everything was well priced. They offer many flavors ( and even different soda flavors for your 'float). I'm not the biggest ice cream lover, but I left with sticky fingers and a happy soul. 4/5 read more

The absolute best ice cream, including ice cream cakes, any of my crew has ever tasted, served by the cutest young kids with the nicest owners on the planet! There's NOWHERE BETTER THAN BEAL'S!!!! read more

This ranks as one of two superior ice cream places in New England in my opinion. Their blueberry cobbler is phenomenal. The blueberries are amazing as is the cobbler bits that are in the ice cream. Other flavors that are good that we have tried are the peppermint stick, and the salted caramel. Also, the service is good as the servers are cheerful and not rude like in the other ice cream place that we went to. read more

Creamy awesome treat. Soft serve and/or hard equally delicious. Good portion sizes. Friendly service and outdoor street-side seating.

Creamy creamy ice cream. Chocolate chip had huge chocolate pieces in it. Very good prices.

The ice cream portions are relatively large. I got the 2 scoops in a waffle cone and it was well worth the $5 and something sense. There's lots of seating inside and outside. The overall vibe of the business is very beautiful. The service wasn't as great and the two girls seemed annoyed that my sister and I took a bit of time to make our selection --- there was no line. They weren't rude or didn't say anything disrespectful, the vibe just wasn't welcoming. Overall, good decently priced ice cream. read more

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If it says anything, it's my second day here in a row. I'm from CA and beside it being freezing weather, this ice cream is a real treat worth being cold over! I'm no ice cream expert but I like to have dessert in every new city that I'm in. My faves are Grasshopper and Coffee Oreo! Flavorful and light feeling ice cream which can be deceiving as it means more time at the gym. read more

Beal's Ice Cream - My Grasshopper and Banana Cream Pie combo. Delicious although I prefer Grasshopper and Coffee Oreo combo. - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

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Beal's Ice Cream has been around for as long as I can remember in Southern Maine. They make a solid hard serve ice cream in an abundance of flavors and employ a whole bunch of local kids during the season to scoop and serve at the counter window with a smile! Some of my favorite Beal's flavors are grape-nut, coconut almond bar and pumpkin pie. Going to Beal's for a cone on a warm summer night is like going home. Aside from the ice cream, the memories evoked might just be even sweeter. The reason why I give Beal's 3 stars instead of 4 or 5, is that while I love the Beal's experience, over the past 15 years or so, other people in this town have been concocting gelato and new ethereal ice cream flavor combinations that have really changed the game. On the other hand, I would probably not suggest that Beal's do anything different. They have the local market cornered on ice cream cone nostalgia, and that on its own, is a pretty awesome thing! read more

Beal's Ice Cream - Coconut almond bar plastered with mixed nuts - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Portland, Maine

I think I've left 3 reviews in my life...sadly, this was our first and last visit. The young woman taking our order didn't greet us or smile. Fine. She proceeded to roll her eyes as my family ordered. Again, our first time. Cake batter ice cream was the consistency of soup. Chips and dip sundae was great. The lack customer service was a deal breaker for us. Vibe was bad. read more