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    The Stirling Fountain

    4.3 (12 reviews)
    Closed 3:00 pm - 9:00 PM
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Moose tracks. I placed ice cream in cup and ate cone at end
    Maria M.

    The Stirling Fountain is a nice clean establishment. Bustling with adults and kids. My husband and I stopped in and ordered a scoop of Chocolate Peanut Butter ripple and small cone of moose tracks. The flavor of the peanut butter ripple was good. I did not particularly enjoy moose tracks because the overall base of the ice cream was bland. The peanut butter cups added some flavor. A kids cup or cone is not available here. I like kids cup because it is better for a small adult. That may be a nice addition so that one can sample more flavors at each visit.

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    2 years ago

    Great shop in a great location. Good, solid classics with a few modern interpretations. Love it.

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    1 year ago

    Cookies and cream was delicious and there is plenty of outdoor seating. Would definitely go back!

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    3 years ago

    Good ice cream, milkshakes and lots of good stuff! Nice staff and great atmosphere. Great place and definitely coming back!

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    I opted for a 3 scoop Banana Split and my wife for the 2 scoop sundae.

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    Zita’s Homemade Ice Cream

    Zita’s Homemade Ice Cream

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    Ice cream can never be part of any serious diet (mine ebbs and flows), but like the chronic…read morealcoholic who yells out, "I don't want to live anymore!" when initially told in treatment that he can't have another drink, ever again...well, I can't imagine life without ice cream, at least once in a while. I try to keep my consumption of it down to once a month. For the most part, I'm successful. There's a whole story behind Zita's. It was started in 2000 and named after Grandmother Zita Elefante. I've passed this place countless times, but I've never been a regular patron, although that's changing. I'm pretty certain that my ice cream jones will be with me until the day I die, and Zita's is close by. In recent years, I've divided my ice cream consumption between 2 places, (maybe 3), for the most part. The Polar Ice Cream stand on Rt. 22 in Whitehouse is very good. Unfortunately, it's closed in the winter (do people not eat ice cream in the winter? I know this addict does). And if you park at Polar at the wrong time of day in the summer, you'll be subjected to a very long line and suddenly extremely limited parking. There's also Gronsky's Milk House in High Bridge. Nice store that serves other things besides ice cream (1 day I'll have to sit down there and order a meal). During the initial days of Covid, when I was driving all over this part of NJ to do my food (and toilet paper) shopping, I'd often stop here on my way home for a milk shake. Oftentimes, that was my "main meal" of the day. Great milk shake! Unfortunately, I'm not out in High Bridge all that much anymore, and I continue craving ice cream in the winter, when Polar in Whitehouse is closed. I've occasionally patronized the Penguin Ice Cream store in Bernardsville, but their hours are haphazard, and parking is hard to come by. So, I've been stopping by Zita's with increasing frequency. There's ample parking in back, a porch on the side for those who wish to sit outside in the fresh air, and within the store itself, service is fast, efficient and... generally speaking...friendly. A few months ago, I stopped in for a vanilla milk shake. The main guy there, perhaps the owner, was doing some major renovative work but he dropped what he was doing to serve me. When I indicated I wanted hard ice cream in the shake rather than soft, he seemed a bit put out (or that could have just been my overactive imagination), but I got the shake quickly, and it was delicious. Today, I stopped in for an ice cream cone. There were some exotic flavors available, which I'm not necessarily averse to (I'm capable of being as experimental as anybody when it comes to food; my only concerns are how it might affect my increasingly delicate digestion), but when push comes to shove, I'm essentially a purist. I didn't see it being offered in the bins up front, so I asked the pleasant young woman serving me if they had chocolate chip. They did. I was asked which type of cone I wanted. I wanted the standard sugar cone with 2 scoops. Prices seemed fair, and I was happy to leave a tip in the customary tip jar. I've sometimes had problems with the tip jar, which seems ubiquitous wherever you go these days, whether you're in a 7-11, a Dunkins, Starbucks, McDonald's, etc. (I can never get the discussion about "tip etiquette" between Steve Buscemi and Harvey Keitel in "Reservoir Dogs" out of my head anytime I'm faced with a tip jar). This time? Didn't bother me. Service was fast, friendly and efficient. I got 2 huge scoops balanced on the sturdy cone, with a presumably hygienic paper wrapped around the base to satisfy the germ paranoia of mind-crippled neurotics like yours truly! I tipped with pleasure. Perhaps my diet IS working, because getting through those 2 huge scoops required a tremendous (albeit delightful) effort on my part. My days of drunk/opioid-dazed driving are long, long behind me (thank whatever God or Gods might exist for my continued sobriety!), but on this occasion, I was driving with 1 hand on the wheel while licking frenetically at the ice cream cone to keep the ice cream from melting all over me in the summer heat. I succeeded for the most part, but maybe next time I should eat it while parked, or while sitting at the patio next door. I was sober, of course, but not necessarily driving safe. In other words, don't follow my bad example. Don't drive while eating ice cream. Get a designated driver to transport you, or...better yet...eat in in your parked car, or at the convenient patio located on the side of the store. Bottom line? Great place, great ice cream.

    Came here with my wife after a nice walk around Watchung Res and I was very happy to find this…read more"hole in the wall" parlor in an area I would have never visited! Food: really enjoyed the apple crumble ice cream I got which appears the be seasonal. A lot of flavor offerings, but watch out as many of them have nuts in them! Service: standard service from an ice cream parlor Ambiance: I really liked the outdoor seating and the small back room is nice, I assume the line is out of the door in the winter because the line was short.

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