Restaurants & Bars
2 Harlem Ice Cream Shops Ranked Among Best In Nation
Two Harlem eateries were included on a new Today show list of the 41 best scoop shops in the United States. Here's which.
HARLEM, NY — With the muggy days of New York City summers already upon the five boroughs, Harlemites can rejoice at the news that two of the best ice cream shops in the country are neighborhood spots.
The new list by Today that ranks 41 of the best ice cream shops in the U.S. — with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and people of color-owned businesses — includes two stores in Harlem.
Sugar Hill Creamery, the family-owned ice cream shop founded in Harlem in 2017, was ranked fifth in the nation. Today spotlighted wife-and-husband owners Petrushka Bazin Larsen and Nick Larsen for their neighborhood-inspired homemade flavors, like the salted caramel flavor "Harlem Sweeties," referencing a Langston Hughes poem.
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Sugar Hill Creamery's original location is on Malcolm X Boulevard near West 119th Street. They opened a second shop on Broadway in Hamilton Heights last fall, plus a third location in Brooklyn's Time Out Market this summer.
A few spots down is Mikey Likes It Ice Cream, a fixture on Frederick Douglass Boulevard near West 134th Street. (Plus another Lower East Side location).
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Today singled out owner Mikey Cole for his tasty, pop-culturally-inspired flavors like "Brady Brunch," "Pink Floyd" and "Incredible Hulk," plus his charitable work in the community.
Check out Today's complete list of the best ice cream shops in America here.
Patch reporters Gus Saltonstall and Kayla Levy contributed.
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