Wild Cow Creamery — Restaurant in Belfast

The owners are like ice cream chefs, often featuring ingredients from other local businesses and having the integrity to not make a flavor if they can't do it properly. For example, they have yet to create a pistachio ice cream because they want to avoid heavy use of almond oil like most places trying to make a quick buck. Snobs like me can taste the difference, so don't do it unless you can do it right! I'm big on textures, and so many flavors were made up of several parts that sustained interest until the last drop. Wild Cow refrains from using stabilizers, which provides a full flavor albeit possibly sacrificing a bit of density - taste is usually best right at a melting point anyway.

Even more, I love supporting business owners who clearly get joy from sharing their passion for their creations. Wild Cow's flavors are so unique (and constantly rotating) that I had a hard time choosing what combo would go well together. Sarah was incredibly, incredibly patient with me - proactively offering a sample wherever my eyes wandered, despite a growing crowd behind us. There are so many standouts that I'm sure you could sample a few flavors and find one that suits your needs. At this time, you can get two flavors in a single scoop and thus four flavors in the 2-scoop option. Flavors are constantly rotating too - apparently they went through 78 last year alone!

Wild Cow undoubtedly has the chops to compete in Austin, TX's growing ice cream scene. I would set aside my own lactose intolerance concerns if I could become their taste tester. I hope y'all open up a store...

We went the day that the Celtic festival had just ended so we will overlook that they were out of most ice cream, cones and the place was trashed and base the review on service, cost and the ice cream. There were only us and one other couple in there and the couple in front of us were informed there were no sugar cones. So they asked for a dish of some kind of ice cream and were told that the ice cream was too hard to serve so they walked out. We were next and we stood there maybe 5 minutes while one girl was tending to the ice cream and the other was standing at the register. Then the one at the register said I can help you. We already knew they were out of sugar cones and one of the ice creams were too hard to serve, so we were left with maybe 4 choices. We each picked 2 and got them in waffle cones. These did not taste handcrafted and basically, you couldn't even tell the difference in the flavors. The price was extremely high for what...

Holy Cow. Seriously. There are a lot of well-rated ice cream places in Maine, and we've tried a ton of them, but this place is the real deal. World class. And I say that as somebody who's had ice creams, gelatos, and sorbets all over the world. The fruit sorbets here have intense fresh fruit flavor to rival anything I've had in France or Italy. The vanilla ice cream is as rich and intense in vanilla flavor as the finest gelato. The fruit toppings are homemade and bursting with fresh flavor. And that dark chocolate sorbet is a culinary marvel. Intense, rich, creamy, chocolaty, You will not believe it's a dairy free product. Don't skip Wild Cow Creamery....