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Ice Cream

Where to get ice cream on the East End. Old soda fountains, roadside soft-serve, seasonal scoop shops. Honest about which have the line and which are quiet enough to walk up to.

Breakfast: coffee + early morning countersBeaches: the canonical post-beach moveSunset: pair a late scoop with golden hour

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  • Hard serve · Riverhead

    Snowflake Ice Cream Shoppe

    Homemade ice cream from 1953 recipes, rotating flavor of the week

    Opened by Herb and Joan Kunitz in 1953 on West Main Street in Riverhead, and the current owners — who took the place over in 1988 "after leaving our Wall Street jobs" — still use the founders' original recipes. The flavor of the week is a low-stakes tour of why a third generation keeps coming; the one running when we checked was mint with dark chocolate flakes and a peanut butter weave, named DJ Jazzy Jif and the Fresh Mints. Open every day of the year until 11 PM, which makes it the rare scoop shop worth an off-season Sunday drive east.

    Hours · Daily 10 AM – 11 PM

    $Year-roundSeatingParking: lot
    Website@snowflakeicecream5,967

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