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    Pints Ice Cream

    4.9 (69 reviews)
    Closed 12:00 pm - 10:00 PM

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    Moderate noise
    Dogs allowed
    Good for groups
    Outdoor seating

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    Jillian S.

    Flavorful ice cream with free sprinkles in downtown Fuquay! I've been twice and enjoyed the flavor selections both times. Our favorites are the Watergate salad and apple pie. The sorbets are usually pretty good too. The flavors offered are often unique and served in a variety of fun ways. For instance, on colorful waffle cones or in milkshakes, floats, affogato, or with alcohol. The employees give suggestions and offer free samples. We enjoyed our visits here and recommend this ice cream shop to others!

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    David H.

    A nice treat after dinner. Stopped in to make my sweet tooth happy. The store is clean and welcoming, but the real star is the ice cream. Lots of flavors to choose from all made in house. I chose the mudslide: cookies and cream ice cream with baileys, kahlua, vodka, with hot fudge, chocolate and topped with whipped cream. It was phenomenal. If you are in the area or not, it's well worth the detour. Make your way here and try the ice cream. You can thank me later.

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    Amy J.

    HOW CUTE!!! New to the area (Lillington actually) and stopped by on a whim. The area is really cute and this place has a TON of ice cream and even booze ice cream. Lots to choose from. It's a cute little shop in a cute little area. We plan to come back during the holidays. I will be trying one of the booze infused milkshakes. I had the count chocoula. It was spot on!

    Flight with beer and Prosecco.
    Camille F.

    They definitely know their pairings! They know how to pair your ice cream to your adult beverage perfectly.

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    Mary T.

    Every now and again an idea is born that borders upon absolute brilliance...Pints is just such an idea. Its fresh, organic, locally made ice cream but with an amazing twist. For the kids, flavors like chocolate, birthday cake, and brown sugar vanilla in cone or bowl and covered in sprinkles. For the adults? How about milkshakes made with liquor?? Let me tell you, this is brilliant....Drinks like Irish Car Bomb or White Russian translate to ice cream seamlessly. Its sweet, delicious...and the buzz will sneak up on you so be careful. Not big on ice cream? How about the sorbet mimosa? Just want alcohol?...There are IPAs on tap. Literally, there is something for everyone. Seating is ample and the area is great for kids. I wish they had plain soda in can or bottle so I hope they add that. Otherwise, it's a brilliant experience!

    Stephanie J.

    Booze and ice cream! Pints is serving up both in a super cute spot in downtown Varina. The ice cream selection is smaller but the flavor choices are tasty and interesting. We sampled a few and I decided to go basic with a scoop of cake batter. Looking to add booze? You have your choice of a booze infused milkshake, beer or mimosa float, beer and ice cream flight or beer float flight. Fiance ordered an Irish Car Bomb and I ordered a pint of beer. The Baileys Irish Cream ice cream that was used in this milkshake was flavorful, we both highly recommend this selection. Pints is a must visit if you are in the area.

    Beer and Ice Cream Flight
    Sara T.

    We love pints! Every visit the staff are so welcoming and have great recommendations which is awesome since we are kinda indecisive. We have tried the beer and ice cream flights and the boozy milkshakes and never been disappointed.

    1/26/2019 - beer and ice cream float menu
    Eddie P.

    Food: 5 Service: 5 Ambience: 5 Day/Time: 1/26/2019 4:30pm Crowd: 1 table occupied and several came in later Order: Elvis Choc, PB, banana Love when a business, especially a food one, comes up with a unique idea that stands out from the rest. For this business, it is combining 2 very popular food items.... ice cream and beer. Not just serving them individually, but actually MIXING them together like Coke and ice cream as a float! Whodathunk?! I'm not a big beer drinker so I didn't try a float, but I *am* a big fan of ice cream (anything with chocolate in it!) and tried the Elvis peanut butter and banana which was very tasty with chunks of PB in it. The folks in the place were so nice and very accommodating, and the serving area was set up nicely with the beer taps on the wall toward the middle and the ice cream on the extreme (as you face the counter) near the door end of the place. The ice cream choices were not huge like a Ben & Jerry's but they had some of the more popular ones, and it's locally made with mostly local ingredients (and pasture raised cows, etc etc). And, best of all, the ice cream is cheap compared to B&J's @ $2/scoop (as of 1/26/2019)! I'm guessing the beer offsets it so if you're just an ice cream fan, thank the beer fans for your savings :-) Thank you! If you live in the area or are passing through, pull into a parking slot and just walk around the nice little block of merchants (many of them being beer makers!) and stop in here! You'll be glad you did!

    Cones at home. Because you can do that.
    Megan B.

    My husband and I regularly get enough ice cream to feed a family of twelve every time we visit. Even during the shut down, we placed massive orders for pickup. I cried with joy when they started doing pickups. We love the owners and the team, and have literally never ordered a single thing that we thought was bad or even 'meh'. The ice cream cone selection is incredible, and we regularly play cone roulette and let whoever is taking our order pick cones to go with our ice cream. Not once has that proved silly. I don't think I could ever overstate just how phenomenal their (regularly rotating) menu is. Do yourself a favor and try the rosemary/olive oil/sea salt with a blue corn cone. Get any of the cookie or cookie butter offerings. Lemon cookie cardamom is so good I would push an old lady into traffic if it meant getting the last scoop for myself. I mean, I'd feel bad about it... but...ice cream. Follow their Instagram for regular updates (they update their Facebook too but the algorithm sometimes buries them from my feed, whereas on Instagram it's right there for my viewing pleasure). Get their ice cream. Do it. Do it now.

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    Best ice cream in town! Always a warm and welcoming environment. The red velvet cheesecake is great!

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    Delicious ice cream. Love that the ingredients are sourced locally. Cool atmosphere & creative boozy milkshakes!

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    Good service and polite staff. Nice atmosphere and pretty good selection of flavors. Didn't see any soda for sale or coffee.

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    Really cute ice cream shop in the heart of downtown Fuquay-Varina. Fresh ice cream, friendly staff and reasonable prices.

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    Flat out amazing ice cream. Several flavors that are mainstays but they also have flavors they rotate weekly.

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    Serious food safety concerns -- proceed with caution, especially with kids…read more We had dinner at Aviator Brewing this evening and unfortunately had a very distressing experience. Within two hours of eating, both my pregnant wife and our 6-year-old son became violently ill. They had both eaten from the children's menu -- specifically the kids' burgers -- which looked undercooked at the time. The most disturbing confirmation came later, when the contents of the vomit clearly showed the meat was not fully cooked. Our daughter, who also ordered a kids' burger but didn't eat it, remained completely fine -- strongly pointing to the burgers as the cause. To make matters worse, my wife -- who is a vegetarian -- had requested a grilled cheese. When she took a bite, she said it tasted like meat. This raises serious concerns about cross-contamination, and we now suspect the grilled cheese was prepared on the same surface as the undercooked burgers without being properly cleaned between uses. To their credit, management did refund our meal when we contacted them. However, that doesn't erase the fact that we were exposed to avoidable and dangerous food safety issues, particularly concerning for a pregnant individual and a young child. I'm not writing this to be vindictive, but to warn other families -- especially those with children or dietary restrictions -- to be extremely cautious. Undercooked meat and poor kitchen hygiene are not just minor oversights, they're serious health risks. I sincerely hope Aviator Brewing takes this as a wake-up call to retrain their kitchen staff and thoroughly review their food handling procedures. Until then, we will not be returning -- and I strongly encourage others to think twice before dining here, particularly from the kids' menu.

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    A lot of people said that the location Oaklyn Springs Brewery opened at was a cursed location since…read moretwo other breweries existed in the same spot and failed. I visited the former one and there was a clear reason it failed...their beers weren't good. Oaklyn on the other hand came in swinging and made some amazing top tier beers right out of the gate thanks to their head brewer Daniel aka Rusty, who developed all of their core beers as well as some knockouts over the years. This is by far the BEST brewery in the Fuquay-Varina area and in my opinion one of the best in the Triangle. I've been a customer since they first opened and I've had over 300 beers per Untappd at this location. I have several bottles of their rare barrel aged releases in my beer cellar. I used to be a weekly regular but I've since greatly reduced my beer consumption for my health and longevity so I don't make it out but a couple times a year now. Their beers are on a completely different level than any other brewery in Fuquay. They host various events and food trucks throughout the week. Long gone are the days of Wednesday night music bingo with DJ Gino and hot dogs with Chicago J Hotdogs. We used to be able to count on those two each Wednesday and a lot of us regulars laughingly joked that Wednesdays was kid night due to the amount of kids in tow and yes I am guilty of bringing my kids...J charged like $2 for a kids hot dog meal, was so cheap to feed them!! They really like to plug in with the community and host fundraising events as well as shopping events with pop-up shops a few times a year. When they were first getting started there wasn't a lot of business or traffic. One of the four owners would often be there, sometimes all of them, and they even paid their own tabs!! On top of that they always made sure the bartenders were taken care of on slow nights. I saw them hand them $100 bills multiple times so they really do take care of their people...you couldn't say the same of Aviator or Mason Jar Breweries. The only problem with the brewery is parking. There isn't much of it. Especially if there is a big event. And if you park in Enterprise's parking lot you will get towed. There have been times I went to visit and there was no parking anywhere. Sometimes you could stop and ask Kumo if you could use one of their spots or park in the collision center parking lot. Now they have two tap rooms so if the brewery is full I would just go to the Varina taproom. I love how community oriented this brewery is and has been and it will go on my favorite lists for best of Raleigh and the Triangle and best of Fuquay.

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