When will the heat finally go away? Who cares? We’ve got these Southwest Florida ice cream spots to keep us cool.
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Antojitos y Mas
Antojitos y Mas is well worth the 20-minute drive to Golden Gate from the Naples Daily News office in North Naples. The shop's most popular item is the mangonada.
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Artisan Gelato by Norman Love
When master chef and chocolatier Norman Love does something, anything, you know it's going to be done right. Gelato is no exception. Love's gelato is made with Sicilian pistachios and Florida strawberries and time-tested, Italian-inspired techniques.
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B. Yummy
This North Naples ice cream paradise serves 48 flavors of homemade ice cream, water ice and sorbets. I haven’t conquered all 48 yet, but I’m getting close. I’ve dabbled in velvety dulce de leche and reveled in the glory of tangy black raspberry.
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Best Ice Cream
What's cooler than ice cream? Liquid-nitrogen ice cream made before your very eyes. Best Ice Cream has churned this icy business model into three seriously sugary locations in and around Fort Myers. This ice cream takes a bit of patience.
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Cape Creamery
Cape Creamery’s house-made, small-batch ice creams reflect the seasons: blueberry cobbler filled with crunchy oat clusters for summer; warmly spiced eggnog for winter; honey-vanilla, Key lime pie, Nutella chip (and dozens more).
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Daddy Dee’s Ice Cream Parlor
I’ve been going to Daddy Dee’s for decades, since I was a wee Le Boeuf who could barely see over the counter. Back then, the same model trains still choo-chooed around the ceilings; the same sundaes and splits were scooped with the same precision.
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Happy Sun Ice Cream
The Cape Coral store is the second location for this more than 10-year-old shop, which first opened in Fort Myers. Happy Sun makes ice cream and paleta ice pops the Mexican way, often with a delicious touch of savory to balance the sweet.
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Ice Cream Club of Cape Coral
Three words: bubble waffle cones. Ice Cream Club allows you to eat its layered sundaes and treats inside its house-made bubble waffles; soft, fluffy wonders that look like brunch-worthy bubble wrap.
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Ice Sssscreamin
I can never remember how many S’s are in Ice Sssscreamin. So, I turn to Google, which leads me to this south Cape shop’s social media page, which shows me hand-dipped ice creams crusted in fruity cereals, topped in glossy glazed doughnuts...
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Love Boat Ice Cream
This 53-year-old scoop shop doesn’t need the fawning praise of some critic. It does just fine on its own. Even in a pandemic, when the flagship store shifted to a drive-thru model, it did nothing to deter Love Boat’s legions of devotees.
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Pelican's Snoballs - Bonita Springs
On my first visit to Pelican's, I took a snowball to the chest. It was thrown by a fellow customer and meant for his friend. They looked at me in apologetic shock. It was roughly 108 degrees that day. All I could do was thank them.
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Regina's
Regina's is an old classic in downtown Naples. It’s been around since 1988, but it’s got more of a ’50s vibe, with a jukebox on one wall and a toss hook game on another. Bright red stools line a counter that overlooks a small alley off Fifth Avenue S
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Rita's Italian Ice
1575 Pine Ridge Road, No. 1, Naples, FloridaYes, OK, I hear you. Technically Rita’s is not ice cream, it’s Italian ice and soft-serve custard, but it’s just so darn good. Last year, the chain moved to its new Pine Ridge Road location and added a drive-thru. A DRIVE-THRU, YOU GUYS.
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Royal Scoop Homemade Ice Cream
Royal Scoop is another Southwest Florida classic with flavors you’d be hard pressed to find elsewhere, such as the SpongeBob, a yellow vanilla ice cream packed with cookie dough pieces and rainbow sprinkles, and a pink Champagne sorbet.
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Scoops and Treats
There's something cheerfully wholesome about this simple, colorful little scoop shop, where real-deal banana splits are crowned with swirls of whipped cream, nuts and a ruby-red cherry.
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Sub Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream
Sub Zero uses liquid nitrogen to freeze ice cream before your very eyes. The shop has an extensive toppings and flavors menu and can make almost any imaginable combination deliciously real. Cinnamon and bubble gum, why not?
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Sun Harvest Citrus
By late summer, citrus season is long gone in Florida. The honey bells and ruby reds that draw people to Sun Harvest in winter won’t be back for awhile. What you can find: swirly cones of orange and Key lime soft-serve ice creams, milk shakes...
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Sweet Drips
When I heard this food truck served Philadelphia-style water ices that can be layered with gelato, I didn't walk, I ran. When I found out it also offered fried-to-order doughnuts, funnel cakes and fried Oreos, my pace quickened.
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Sylwia’s Ice Cream
Everyone loves ice cream. But Sylwia and Brad Mills’ love is on another level. This Cape couple puts ice cream on a pedestal, quite literally, scooping it into little pedestal bowls and tea cups.
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Zirilli’s Chilly Treats
Zirilli’s never fails to wow, not with its finely shaved Philly-style water ices, not with its velvety hand-made ice creams, not even with the unique pretzel sticks that poke out of each cup and bowl.
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