“Splurgeworthy” is how the sign describes the day’s ice cream flavors at this quaint shop serving up scoops from Delaware’s Woodside Farm Creamery. The ice cream, which Jane and Michael Stern of the good food-scouting Roadfood.com described as so creamy that it melts into “marshmallow sauce rather than milk,” contains about 15 percent butterfat and is churned with milk from “pampered,” grass-fed cows.
Adding charm to the ice cream experience is the shop’s wall of collectible figurines—from Gumby to Kung Fu Panda—and colorful, retro posters. This summer, try the creamery’s “steam oil” flavor, which mixes green-caramel and chocolate swirls into a velvety coffee base.
114 West Broad St., Falls Church; lilcitycreamery.com
In case the novelty of dessert has worn off, visitors to this Clarendon shop get to watch as liquid nitrogen and a small army of KitchenAid mixers turn their flavor of choice from cream to ice cream before their eyes. More than smoke and mirrors, Nicecream’s scoops are made with grass-fed cream and ingredients such as Pennsylvania peaches, with seasonal flavors changing frequently. The brand, which has a second location in Old Town Alexandria, now sells pints of the cold stuff to go and online to customers who want the taste without the show.
2831 Clarendon Blvd., Arlington; nicecream.com