Wild Scoops — Restaurant in Alaska

Wild Scoops could not be any friendlier! Yes, you will have to wait outside on a long line for a while, but when you get to the front you are greeted by smiling faces and enthusiastic ice cream scoopers ready to let you try any and every flavor you like and will offer you great descriptions of what the ingredients are, too! Speaking of flavors we ordered the Oreo and black coffee in a baked Alaska (which was a dark coffee base ice cream with chunks of Oreo in a waffle cone with meringue on top~ it was amazing!), Wild blueberry (fresh taste with blue berries from Alaska), Rhubarb crumble (which they describe as: Cinnamon-nutmeg base + AK rhubarb jam + oaty streusel), Fireweed and Honey (which honestly, I cannot describe properly, but it is almost a strawberry but not a strawberry like flavor- but you MUST try for yourself!) and Kincaid coconut (which was on the sweeter side. They describe it as: Creamy chocolate coconut). We loved each and every flavor we tried and they have such cool flavors, too! Every flavor was unique, interesting, and tasty! Although the line might get long, when in Anchorage, you have to go! Worth the time and worth the calories!We would...

Loved it so much we went twice in two days!

Stumbled upon this tiny ice cream shop downtown with Alaska local flavors and ingredients and knew we had to try them! The first time we got a split scoop of fireweed and the Pilot's Life for Me. The second we got Sitka Swirl and Rhubarb crumble.

This is clearly ice cream made with little or no stabilizers like carrageenan, so don't think you're going to take it somewhere else and enjoy it later. You better be ready to eat it right away, or you'll be enjoying some ice cream soup. We took it to our hotel less than five minutes away and it was already melting down the side of the cup. Not that I'm complaining about that though. I enjoyed that texture.

A Pilot's Life for Me: pretty good, but I was a little turned off by the "pilot bread" which is apparently just a cute name for hard tack. My husband thought it made for an interesting texture though.

Fireweed: floral and fruity. I liked it a lot.

Sitka Swirl: rich salted caramel. Very good.

Rhubarb crumble: felt that the oat crumble was a little stodgy, but the rhubarb part was...

The best part about Wild Scoops is the Baked Alaska topping. A friend recommended that we come here and get a Baked Alaska ice cream, if we could. We'd post a photo, but it looks like every other Baked Alaska topping photo.

There were some interesting flavor options. I tried a taster of the spruce tips. It ... tasted like spruce tips. While it's an interesting flavor, I'm not sure that I want an entire ice cream cone of it, but I appreciate having a taste. We went with the Mango Malasada, which was quite nice.

The line was quite short (1 person) when we arrived. It was a cooler day, but in Colorado, Josh and Johns has an ice cream-o-meter card where we get more punches for buying ice cream as it gets colder/snowing, so cool weather says GET ICE CREAM! There's nowhere to sit nearby, but there are some lovely painted trash cans in downtown Anchorage.

It's downtown. There are...