The Alley Scoop is a brand new ice cream shop. This is a wonderful and very smart use of an actual…read morealley between two businesses. You may order your ice cream through the window. You can sit and enjoy it outside at the several available tables. There's no going inside. This ice cream is hand crafted in Granville, MA. They're called Gran-Val Scoop. They have plenty more flavors available at their original location. At the Alley Scoop they have some really fun original flavors, such as Maple Bacon and Lavender Honey. I got the Strawberry and the Brownie Dough. The one scoop in a cup is a very generous portion. This was very chocolatey, with brownie pieces and white chocolate pieces. So tasty, even though chocolate isn't my first pick. The strawberry was your classic, sweet strawberry. I would love to return next month to see what seasonal flavors they would have.

"Sneakin' Sally through the alley Trying to keep her out of…read moresight" (Robert Palmer) Opened in May, the Alley Scoop isn't an ice cream shop in the traditional sense, it's basically an outdoor ordering counter located in an alley next to The Bean 226 in downtown Windsor Center. There were about half a dozen benches and tables in the alley, and a like number on the sidewalk on Broad Street. They had fifteen ice cream flavors available, plus two sorbets, two vegan flavors, and a Banana Sugar Free choice. Floats, shakes, coffee blends, sundaes, a cookie sandwich, and a waffle concoction round out their product line. We each had a waffle cone - Butter Crunch (almond candy and butterscotch ice cream) and Caramel Pretzel (Vanilla ice cream with caramel ribbons and sweet and salty chocolate covered pretzel bits). The Caramel Pretzel was mine and it was really good, with a smooth and creamy vanilla base and plenty of those yummy chocolate pretzel bits and pieces. Their ice cream is homemade by the good folks at the Gran-Val Scoop in Granville, MA. Our single scoops on a sugar cone were $5 each.

came here to checkout their unique and creative ice cream flavors! we got a flight of 4 different…read moreflavors, and candidly, i was surprised by the portions. when i see a big influencers posting about their ice cream flights, the portions seem to be bigger. we tried the blueberry cheesecake which was good, the honey fig sadly did not have much flavor and the inclusions were minimal, orange chocolate chip was nice, and the raspberry something which was good but a little too subtle. i just felt like the ice cream sadly fell a little short for me

Great flavors! Amazing service and a fun place to come with friends! Churro is excellent and the…read moresizes are nice! Enjoy!!

Tasty, tons of selection, decent view of the countryside from the parking lot, and goats, chickens…read moreand other animals that make it a mini barnyard zoo visit for the little one. Perfect outing spot.

More 3.5 ish-Such a pretty setting. Loved the donkeys. Plenty of seating. Got the butter pecan and…read morepistachio-small portions and wasnt a fan of the pistachio. Hubs got peanut butter swirl and said it was just ok.

Arguably the best ice cream I've ever had in my life. Very dense and creamy due to it's high…read morebutterfat content. Per the Hartford Courant, Mortensens uses only natural ingredients. No artificial flavors, colors, high fructose corn syrup....none of that stuff. Family owned since 1915. They make their own ice cream. One location. About 40 flavors of hard ice cream, some of which rotate by season. They also have soft serve, but you go there for the hard stuff. I had two scoops. One each of pure Madagascar vanilla, and banana. Both divine. You could see and taste small chunks of banana. Naturally, I got a brain freeze after about 30 seconds. Am intrigued by "6 flights for $10.20". Next time. 5 smooth, creamy, dense stars!

Great choices of ice cream, shakes, sundaes. Awesome customer service by both Steph and Charlotte,…read morevery friendly and took the time and consideration to one of our friends that needed sugar free. We will be back, thank you

It was just a little better than OK for me. It was near the home of our hosts on a recent trip and…read moreon a hot Sunday afternoon we went out for an ice cream treat. This is clearly a local favorite and it is set up at the entrance to a local family farm. This is where they sort of lost me because I grew up on a farm. These places are never the entertainment for me that they are to others. But I understand the appeal to the local community and the length of the lines to buy ice cream in summer is a supporting proof of that. Sadly they have limited flavors and you cannot see or taste them before choosing, as most all of our ice cream places at home have available. I saw only a few on the list that I would order and chose the coffee flavor, hoping it was light in color and flavor. It was not. This is a problem for the caffeine low tolerance folks so don't choose it if you are one like me. There were few fruit flavors too, which surprised me in summer. The people were nice, the servings ample and the line moved quickly. There is seating at wooden picnic tables which face a fenced area where there are some animals to see. I think city residents would clearly enjoy this part more than I did. They serve cones and cups, but on such a hot day they recommended cups as safer though one of our hosts chose the cone anyway. I might look further for ice cream should we go back again. But the quality was fine and the portions substantial and probably more than I needed anyway. We all finished our ice cream and I was glad we could reach it so quickly.

Ice cream with a view!! Count me in! I love how you can enjoy ice cream with a farm view. The ice…read morecream didn't stand out to me but the animals sure did.

I stopped in during the Suffield on the Green celebration. For some reason, I really wanted a…read morecreamy, cold, ice cream and Scoup Du Jour did Not disappoint! I spoke with one of the servers about how crazy busy the shop was that weekend. She gave me a delicious sundae with fresh ice creme and delicious peanut butter topping. They have a nice selection of toppings for such a small place. Parking is interesting, either park in the small lot in front or the bigger lot in back. There are a few benches in the front of the building to eat your ice creme and watch traffic flow by. They are closed now, due to the winter months, but I am looking forward to visiting again in March!

If you are going here.. make sure Charlie is serving you!! She is so great and efficient, and…read moreshowed nothing but positivity! I will be coming back very soon!

What happened? We…read morecame to Milkcraft a few years ago. It was vibrant and lively inside, with lots of people trying an assortment of cool and unique flavors. The Vietnamese coffee ice cream was great. We came again today after a nice local lunch, looking for a small sweet treat to end the day. The inside was dirty. The ice cream freezer had years of ice and grime built up on the inside. It was half empty and the flavors remaining were fairly mundane. We tried the most interesting looking one - a milk and cereal creation. It tasted like warm vanilla ice cream with hints of crushed up salty, stale cracker. There are lot of other places in town that offer fun desserts, so we'll go other places next time.

Since they removed their liquid nitrogen mixers, they have really gone down hill…read more The inside just looks dirty and not attractive any more. It's as slow as it was waiting for the liquid nitrogen. The staff seemed more interested in chatting with their friends than taking care of orders. The mexican churro ice cream had a nearly toxic level of cinnamon. It went from a "try once" recommendation to a "would recommend against"

Icy Rolls serves stir fried ice cream or rolled ice cream and bubble tea. This type of ice cream…read moreoriginated from Thailand. They use a mixture of cream, milk, sugar, and other ingredients; this mixture gets poured over a very cold ice pan. They constantly mix/stir it, then flatten it, and roll it up. After, toppings can be added onto it. I had the French toast which was very tasty; it was sweet and extra cold and reminded me of cinnamon toast crunch. I had one topping, the marshmallows, which I don't recommend since it was stale. I also had the taro boba tea sans the boba pearls; they didn't have any but I still had the taro tea and it was good. My toddler had the birthday cake flavored rolled ice cream and he loved it, especially with the m&m and gummy bear toppings. The location was convenient; it was in a plaza with plenty of parking. The employee was friendly. Overall, a good spot to get this type of specialty ice cream, without going to Thailand.

I wanted to love this place, especially after I'd bicycled 22 miles to try a scoop at Grassroots,…read moreonly to find it's not open on Sundays. (Who do they think they are? Chik-Fil-A?) I opened Yelp and found this place. I chose the "Mango Girl," which is listed as having fresh mango. The friendly attendant took a cup of premixed cream, sugar, and whatever else goes into ice cream and some mango and poured it out on what looked like a pizza pan. I wasn't sure what she was up to, but watched in wonder as she went at this mixture with a couple metal spatulas, chopping, mixing, and chopping again (hence the "stir fried ice cream" claim) as the liquid began to freeze. It turns out that the "pizza pan" was wicked cold. She flattened and smoothed out the mixture just before it hardened, and then, scraped it off the pan in neat little rolls, and put about 6 or 7 little rolls in a paper bowl. We then moved to the toppings station where I was told to choose "up to 4" toppings... stuff like white chocolate chips, rice crispy bar, and some Japanese cookies and candies. All in: $8.00 including tax. Very intriguing. Unique for me, but here's the deal: the ice cream just wasn't very good. It was overly sweet and had no distinct flavor. I don't know if it was supposed to be vanilla with mango in it, mango with mango in it, or maybe sweet cream and mango. It was just sweet. Too sweet. No flavor. And, wicked cold. Which is good in concept, but not so good for eating ice cream. It was hard. It crumbled into dry bits when I tried to take a spoonful. So, I was left with not-so-great ice cream that was difficult to eat. As it warmed, it was not-so-good ice cream that was less difficult to eat. I give Icy Rolls a star for the ice cream, a star for the idea and presentation, and a star for being open at 2pm on Sunday.