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Great Escape #160

4.3 (90 reviews)
Closed • 12:00 pm - 8:00 PM

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Oat-milk options

There are plenty of ice cream shops to choose from in the Finger Lakes, NY region. This place did not disappoint! Cute and cozy, located in a busy town with tourist from Watkins Glen State Park. This shop has 3 types of ice cream - options are homemade, Oatmilk (vegan/ dairy-free), and Hershey"s brand ice cream. If they make their own ice cream, why would a person order anything other than that?! I had chocolate Oreo cookie and Coffee. The coffee was made with locally roasted coffee in Watkins Glen - highly recommended.

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Aly W.

Incredible variety of ice cream and treats. I had an amaretto soft serve that was amazing. My husband was underwhelmed by his coffee soft serve, but the kids were happy with their orders. Make sure you ask for a dish even if you get your soft serve in a cone because it will be top heavy and melt over the sides and potentially tip over. They gave Hersheys hard ice cream and homemade flavors, too.

Ashish J.

Our K-9 family member besieged us to stop here every time we crossed this store -- which we faithfully did for his puppiccino and then some for the fellow hoomans. Loved all their flavors and the country side feel. Street side with ~4 benches to sit and enjoy or take it all for the road. Perhaps overindulged -but clearly a popular place given the long lines during summer months.

Ankita S.

The ice creams are so tasty! If you're in the finger lakes, save up a big appetite and fill that sweet tooth They have all kinds of ice creams -- hard ice cream, soft ice cream, gelato, slush puppies, sorbets flavors.

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Clare C.

This place was amazing!!!!!!! Literally every single type of ice cream you could ask for. They had soft serve and gelato and so many flavors!! Everything sounded great! It was very hard to decide what to get! They even had gluten free cones which is unique!! The scoops were also huge!! So fun!!

Lavender blueberry coconut milk ice cream
Tahsin L.

The vegan ice cream is delicious and smooth! I've only ever had packaged vegan ice creams and Great Escape's home-made vegan ice creams knocked it out of the park. My husband and I got 2 scoops each and the scoops were HUGE! I wish I knew what I was getting myself into before I ordered that. I tried a lavender blueberry coconut milk ice cream while my husband got a chocolate peanut butter soy milk ice cream. They were both super delicious; my lavender blueberry ice cream was just a wild and exciting flavor--it was sweet and tart. The ice creams were soft, creamy, smooth. I wish I had more room to finish it. There were several different vegan ice cream flavors and that was pleasantly surprising. I can't wait to come back and try out more of their flavors. Their Covid-19 precautions were sensible and appreciated. There was a one way line for ordering, and there's no indoor seating or anything. There's a large parking lot right next to The Great Escape. I wish I had known about the place the last couple of times I've been to Watkins Glen; I was missing out! I'll definitely be recommending this place to anyone heading to Watkins Glen.

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Rachael M.

Excellent vegan ice cream! We really appreciated all of the signage to wear masks and keep distance from others, as well as ordering from a window and not going inside. We ordered a medium soy chocolate peanut butter (excellent), soy vanilla oreo, and oat milk strawberry. The servings were HUGE - the medium (2 scoops) was filled to the brim and was probably a pint of ice cream, so this size is great to share among a few of you. The staff person surprised us by giving us a free sampling of their delicious lavender blueberry ice cream (vegan) which wasn't on the menu. The "sample" was in one of their kiddie or small cups, so it was a basically a full serving. We loved our experience here and would definitely return!

Raspberry, dark chocolate, red velvet and coconut chocolate!

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Dairy free options! Yay! Really nice service, huge portions and tons of variety. Loved it here:)

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8 months ago

New owners recently (local!), same great ice cream (Hershey's and their own). Highly recommend.

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love this place, only spot for homemade ice cream, absolutey love love the new owners , make sure you Stop here

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Go local! This is our spot! I support them, they support my business, and their ice cream is out of this world!

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Small cup of cappuccino crunch. Big chunks of chocolate. Amazing. Strawberry milkshake. Fabulous

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GREAT dairy free options!!! I had 2 scoops of sorbets: Mandarin orange and limoncello, with strawberry sauce. Intense flavor. Delicious!

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Such a fun experience!…read more So many fun flavors of icecream and different cheeses! Not to mention the adorable cows!! We tried the flight of 8-- 5 icecreams and 3 cheeses. For icecream we tasted the purple cow, peach cobbler, cookies and cream, black cherry chocolate, and the coffee heath crunch. My favorite was the coffee flavor- unlike other coffee icecreams I've had, this coffee had a much more robust and richer flavor profile. I liked cookies and cram-- always a classic. The cherry flavor was a tad too artificial for my liking. Purple cow was fine- very similar to the Cornell Dairy flavor- both are good though! I liked the peach cobbler flavor though wish there were more of the mix-ins. For cheeses, we tasted the butter garlic cheddar curds, the signature Summit Cheddar, and the plain quark. The garlic cheddar curds were so good, I took a bag home with me! Summit cheddar had a nice nutty flavor, not too 'sharp' though. The quark was interesting... it had a rather mild flavor and interesting texture (similar to boursin). I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. I also took home a bag of the tomato basil cheese curds which I didn't like as much as the garlic ones. The tomato ones had a very subtle flavor-- too subtle. There was a line when we got there though it moves relatively quickly and is definitely worth the wait! Overall, I had so much fun picking out so many icecreams and cheeses to taste as well as seeing the cows! I would highly recommend Shtayburne Farm!

Saw this place on Instagram and decided to try it out while on the scenic wine route. Conveniently…read morelocated just past Watkins Glen. A fourth generation dairy farm that excels in cheese and ice cream. We tried the 8 flight. 4 cheeses 4 ice creams. All were delicious. I tried the peach habernero Quark and immediately needed to buy one in the case. Its a super protein and so creamy. I can't wait to pair it with celery sticks for a nice snack. They offer a few coffee drinks as well. I ordered a caramel Americano. Next time I am in the area I will definitely come by again!

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