For some reason our waitress at the J. Brian Pub didn’t ask us if we wanted any dessert. We found this quite amusing, I guess we either looked like we don’t like dessert or don’t need dessert. Either way she was wrong, looks can be so deceiving.
It was a balmy night in October, and Caroline Street was calling. We were sure a dessert stop would present itself. We had hoped to walk a few blocks but fate intervened in the form of Lee’s Ice Cream. We spied it across the street and made a quick beeline to its door. We actually walked less than a block, so while my sweet tooth was about to be satisfied, my need to exercise was not.
On the outside and on the inside, this is a good old fashioned ice-cream shop. The flavors however are anything but ordinary. With the likes of spicy pumpkin, toasted almond, and death by chocolate there is a flavor for every member of the family.
We got into a conversation with owner, Jeff Fults. He is beginning to make his own ice- cream in house, but only flavors that he feels he can make better than his supplier. He is working with an ice-cream expert to perfect his product. On our second visit we got to be ice-cream guinea pigs, he was making cake mix ice-cream which he assured us is the latest fad. And yes it did taste exactly like yellow cake mix. I am never going to love that flavor as much as the spiced pumpkin but it certainly was interesting.
Al and I were fascinated by the edible ice-cream cups, they are the perfect container for the very delicious ice-cream. I also had one of their ice-cream and coffee drinks, on the idea of a moo-latte at Dairy Queen but even better.
The hours are very liberal at Lee’s and the ice-cream is worth coming for. Jeff is working on developing the hot fudge to end all hot fudge and I am betting that he will indeed find it.
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