Best Local Ice Cream and Seafood According to Staffers

people@Emerson polled staff on Slack about their favorite seafood shacks and ice cream shops. Let’s start with dessert first:

retro sign that reads homemade ice cream delicious, from $2

Crescent Ridge, Sharon, MA

Favorite flavors: Mississippi Mud, Coffee English Toffee
Natalie Hebshie (ITG)

Flannel Cow Creamery, Mansfield, MA

Dennis Levine (IT)

Hodgie’s Ice Cream, Amesbury, MA

Kate Roberts (Graduate and Professional Studies)

Jay’s Pizza and Ice Cream, Malden, MA

Kennedy’s Ice Cream Bar, Melrose, MA

Bob Parks (IT)

Peaceful Meadows Ice Cream, Whitman, MA

Favorites:

  1. Mocha frappe (chocolate syrup, coffee or lite coffee ice cream)
  2. Anything with the peanut butter sauce
  3. Coconut Chocolate Almond ice cream
  4. All of it’s good.

Shaylin Hogan (Graduate Studies)

Richardson’s, Middleton, MA

Favorite flavor: Snickas and Way Milky
Richelle Devereaux-Murray (Performing Arts)

Ron’s Gourmet Ice Cream and 20th Century Bowling Lanes, Hyde Park, MA

Favorite flavors: Kahlua Chip, Grapenut, and Coconut
Estelle Ticktin (Communication Sciences and Disorders)

And now for seafood…

retro sign that reads Shrimps $5, Best, Fresh, Delicious

Anywhere

Favorite order: Lobster roll or clam strips
Richelle Devereaux-Murray (Performing Arts)

Belle Isle Seafood, Winthrop, MA &

Causeway Restaurant, Gloucester, MA

Eric Fox (MTP)

Cooke’s, Orleans, MA

Favorite order: Fish and chips &

JP Seafood, Jamaica Plain, MA

Favorite order: Sushi and other Asian dishes
Natalie Hebshie (ITG)

Tony’s Clam Shop, Quincy, MA

Favorite order: Fisherman’s platter and/or (usually and) extra scallops
Iris O’Connor (Web and Digital Services)