Bella Vita Coffee & Cream
Coffee and ice cream under one roof on Main Street, which is the correct arrangement. Espresso in the morning, a cone in the afternoon.
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The picks
- Bella Vita Coffee & Cream
- Brown's Cow
- The Butter Pecan Cafe
- Carminati Creamery
- CJ’s Sweet Palace
- Cookie Dope
- Cousin's Smokehouse and Burger
- Downtown Scoop
- Dreams Ice Cream Factory
- Evolution Candy
- Grandma Jannah's Ice Cream Parlor
- Hangry Bear Creamery
- Hickory Stick Ice Cream
- Ice Cream West Chester
- Kool Licks
- La Michoacana Homemade Ice Cream
- Last Temptation
- Little's Ice Cream & Water Ice
- Lu & Aug's
- The Main Freeze
- Mandee's Treats
- Mompops
- Narberth Scoops
- Newtown Ice House
- Nina's Waffles & Ice Cream
- Nina's Waffles & Ice Cream
- Nina’s Waffles and Sweets
- Owowcow Creamery
- Paleteria & Botanas El Nevado
- Richie's Water Ice & Ice cream
- Rosemarie's Real Italian Ice
- Salory's Pizza & Ice Cream
- Scoop Happy
- Scoops
- Scoops and Smiles Ice Cream & Water Ice
- Sine's 5 & 10 Store
- Sundae World
- Sweet Briar Cafe
- Sweet Briar Cafe and Ice Cream
- URBAN SCOOP
- Urban Scoop
- West Chester Pizza Cafe
- White Horse Coffee & Creamery
- Yardley Ice House
- Zebra Striped Whale
Brown's Cow
Bassetts ice cream — a brand older than the borough's steel mills — scooped from a cash-only counter on South Main. Tripadvisor's pick for best ice cream in town, for whatever that's worth.
The Butter Pecan Cafe
The Butter Pecan Cafe works the sweet end of Lincoln Highway in Coatesville. The name points straight at the sweet tooth.
Carminati Creamery
An ice cream shop on Yorkway Place scooping the house-made stuff. The Jenkintown answer to where to go after dinner.
CJ’s Sweet Palace
Water ice is the headline here and ice cream plays second, with soft pretzels, funnel cake, milkshakes and cookies filling out the rest of the counter. Hours run seasonal and get posted week to week on their Instagram.
Cookie Dope
Edible cookie dough by the scoop on South High Street, served in a cone like soft serve. Ice cream too, if you want both.
Cousin's Smokehouse and Burger
Family-run burger spot on Germantown Pike a short hop from Ursinus, smoking Texas-style brisket and beef dino ribs on weekends. Soft serve and homemade pretzels close it out.
Downtown Scoop
Ice cream in downtown Souderton, scooped a block off Main on Chestnut. The warm-night stop after dinner or a walk down Broad.
Dreams Ice Cream Factory
Family run for eleven years, by their own count, and the menu goes well past scoops: gelati layered however you ask for it, water ice, vegan and sugar free pints, plus sundaes built around the Eagles and the Phillies.
Evolution Candy
Family-owned candy shop on East State: chocolate-covered almonds, Whirly Pops, gift baskets, plus ice cream and milkshakes. Open until 9 on Fridays and Saturdays, which is exactly when the second scoop happens.
Grandma Jannah's Ice Cream Parlor
An ice cream parlor on West Ave with the kind of name that tells you the recipes came from somebody's kitchen. Scoops, sundaes, and a counter to eat them at.
Hangry Bear Creamery
Ice cream with a make-it-yourself angle: book the private studio and churn a custom flavor, or hit the counter for ice cream, coffee, and lunch to go. A newly fitted ice cream truck takes the operation on the road for the 2026 event season.
Hickory Stick Ice Cream
Hand-dipped ice cream and water ice on 7th Street, the counter you hit on a walk through downtown Perkasie in July. Regulars go for the salted caramel truffle, and the sister shop out on Telegraph Road sits inside a one-room schoolhouse that ran until the 1950s.
Ice Cream West Chester
The scoop-shop follow-up from the owner of Pizza West Chester and Steaks West Chester: soft serve, custard, and sorbet on Church Street. Family-run, with the pitch resting on all-natural ingredients.
Kool Licks
Forty-plus flavors of homemade water ice, soft serve in thirty-some more, and hand-dipped scoops by the dozen. Cash only, open 3 to 9, and yes, they'll make the dog a pup cup.
La Michoacana Homemade Ice Cream
Homemade ice cream and paletas on East State Street, Mexican-style and made in small batches. The flavor list runs long and the line out front proves it.
Last Temptation
A scoop shop on South Main serving Thomas Sweet ice cream, the handcrafted kind out of Princeton, alongside sorbet and dairy-free options. It stays open till 10, which is about when the after-dinner walk down Main goes looking for a cone.
Little's Ice Cream & Water Ice
Ice cream and water ice on East Montgomery, built for a summer-evening walk. Cones, gelati, and a line that forms the second it warms up.
Lu & Aug's
Small-batch soft serve built on local dairy, with flavors that rotate between the classics and the ones nobody asked for. Affogato, made-to-order hot chocolate, build-your-own pints, and espresso running past 5pm.
The Main Freeze
Frozen-treat stand on West Main, open daily from noon to 10. The ice cream comes from the MacIvers, second-generation ice cream makers out of Emmaus, and the Italian ice is Via Veneto.
Mandee's Treats
The stuffed cookie bars are the reason to come: Nutella Oreo, Cookie Butter and Twix, a lineup that changes weekly. There's ice cream too, for anyone who thinks a cookie bar needs company.
Mompops
Handmade ice pops out of a shop on Birch Street, just off the downtown grid. Cold, fruit-forward, and easy to eat on the walk.
Narberth Scoops
A teen-owned popup in downtown Narberth, scooping Bassett's and nothing else into cones, sundaes, and floats. It only runs when the Lower Merion High kids are out for summer, so check their Instagram before you walk over.
Newtown Ice House
Handcrafted water ice and frozen custard from a warm-months-only stand, with a flavor board that swings from Butterbeer to Dubai Chocolate to Cookie Monster. Same crew runs the Yardley shop, and both reopen each spring, so the July list is gone by January.
Nina's Waffles & Ice Cream
The Village at Newtown branch of the New Hope waffle-and-ice-cream shop, churning its ice cream from local dairy with less sugar and no corn syrup. The move is a warm waffle under a scoop.
Nina's Waffles & Ice Cream
Belgian Liège waffles — dense, caramelized, brioche-based — under scoops of ice cream made with local dairy and no corn syrup, from a Bucks original that's been at it since 2011. The Main Street shop runs seasonal, closing over winter and reopening each spring.
Nina’s Waffles and Sweets
Liege waffles served warm, topped with ice cream they churn from local dairy with no corn syrup. Making them since 2011, and the waffle-plus-scoop order has not needed improving since.
Owowcow Creamery
Ice cream hand-crafted from scratch daily since 2009: they pasteurize their own base with local organic cream and roast the fruit themselves. Even the signature popsicles get dipped by hand.
Paleteria & Botanas El Nevado
Paletería & Botanas El Nevado does Mexican paletas, the fruit-and-cream popsicles, plus botanas and snacks. The kind of cold treat that earns a summer walk over.
Richie's Water Ice & Ice cream
Water ice and soft serve on Lincoln Highway, the Philly-summer standard. Order a gelati and you get both layered in one cup.
Rosemarie's Real Italian Ice
An independent water ice stand on West Broad, scooping the Italian ice the name insists is the real thing. Cup in hand, you're a short walk from the rest of downtown.
Salory's Pizza & Ice Cream
Pizza up front, ice cream on the way out, from the shop that used to answer to Skippack Pizza. The pitch is Italian-American food at a reasonable price, and the ovens run until 10 on Fridays and Saturdays.
Scoop Happy
Scoop Happy is the ice cream window at 4114 Skippack Pike, right next door to Pizza Villa. Cones and sundaes, and a crowd out front on warm evenings.
Scoops
An ice cream shop on the Fayette Street strip, cones and sundaes for the warm-weather crowd. The classic after-dinner walk in Conshy.
Scoops and Smiles Ice Cream & Water Ice
Scoops and Smiles does ice cream and water ice on East King Street, the summer-evening kind of stop. Cones, sundaes, and a walk-up window when the weather's right.
Sine's 5 & 10 Store
A working five-and-dime, family-owned since 1912, with a soda fountain serving breakfast, lunch, and milkshakes made with Edy's ice cream. Look up: 200 model airplanes hang from the ceiling, including a 10-foot USS Akron, while a standard-gauge train runs 200 feet of track overhead.
Sundae World
Sixty-seven flavors of hard ice cream, plus real soft serve, water ice, and boba, at the seasonal stand on North Broad. Deciding is the hard part — reviewers admit to ten minutes at the flavor board.
Sweet Briar Cafe
Roots that trace back to a 1924 Bedminster farm, now a walk-up ice cream window and a monthly four-course tasting dinner in the same small room. Chad Reese has been in the kitchen since 2012 and has owned the place with his wife Kristen since 2019.
Sweet Briar Cafe and Ice Cream
The Lindenwold Avenue café that added an ice-cream window and became a four-season habit. Cones out front, coffee inside.
URBAN SCOOP
Urban Scoop makes small-batch ice cream on the east end of Gay Street, with globally-inspired flavors like ube cookie dough and Thai tea. A scoop shop that goes well past vanilla.
Urban Scoop
Small-batch ice cream in flavors like Ube Cookie Dough, Thai Tea, and Black Sesame, scooped daily till 10. This Lincoln Highway shop is the original — it did well enough to spawn a second in downtown West Chester.
West Chester Pizza Cafe
BYOB pizzeria whose patio runs straight through winter under a big heated tent, with locally delivered Richman's ice cream waiting for after. They don't deliver, so bring your own wine and stay a while.
White Horse Coffee & Creamery
Coffee counter and ice-cream creamery under one roof on West Avenue. House-roasted beans early, scoops later, which covers most of the day.
Yardley Ice House
Homemade water ice, gelato, and soft-serve custard on South Main, made in-house since 1994. The water ice is the draw, and the summer line out the door backs that up.
Zebra Striped Whale
The signature is the Whirlwind: ice cream hand-mixed with your toppings at the counter until it's one swirl. Family-run on State Street since 2004, named after a children's book the founder wrote and illustrated herself.
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