Open Houses And Yankee Ice Cream

No beach town worth its salt (fear my puns; your groans feed my soul) is without some serious INDEPENDENT ice cream parlors. Beverly has some great ones.

My friend Liz visits us once in a while from Tennessee, and claims I’m one of the few Yankees she can stand. But, she extols the superiority of “Yankee Ice Cream” every chance she gets.

On the high end, no one is going to beat Christina’s in Innman Square, and Toscanini is pretty fantastic. Captain Dusty’s on 128 in North Beverly (right near the candy store at Pride’s Crossing, in case you’re lactose intolerant) is surprisingly close, though. I can get my signature dark chocolate and ginger combo, and they make a heck of a malt. They are at least as good as JP licks in 90% of what they do, though with a smaller menu.

More often, I tend to go to Dick & June’s on 62, near “The Shoe,” which is what the locals call the Cummings Center. It’s just a quick jaunt over the hill, and they do rock, so they tend to get my trade.

Treadwells on 114 on the way into Salem is pretty great, too. They’ll put extra, extra, extra malt in a shake and not charge more.

Just, wash the sticky off your hands before you mess up other people’s houses:

First, a slightly pricey, but really gorgeous, condo in North Beverly:

38 West Street #3
Beverly, MA 01915
Beds: 2/Baths:1
SQ.FT.: 936
$299,000
Open House: Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

9 Guild Road
Beverly, MA 01915
Beds: 4/Baths:1.5
SQ.FT.: 1558
$ 309,999
Open House: Sunday, July 27, 2008 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

30 Budleigh Avenue
Beverly, MA 01915
Beds: 3/Baths: 1.5
SQ.FT.: 1052
$ 279,900
Open House: Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

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