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Cold dessert

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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2 spots

  • Frozen yogurt · Southampton

    BuddhaBerry Southampton

    Self-serve frozen yogurt and sorbet, with smoothies, bubble tea and coffee at the same counter

    The Southampton branch of a small East End group. Its own locations page lists a full seven-day week with no seasonal note, but the sibling shop in Sag Harbor is already filed summer-only here after a manual check, and a seasonal shop wrongly called year-round is the error that sends someone out in February for nothing. Filed summer-only on that basis, checked 2026-08-22. Named with the hamlet, matching data/teens.json, because the plain "BuddhaBerry" is the Sag Harbor shop 14.7 km away — two identical names at two points is exactly what audit-coord-consistency exists to stop.

    Hours · Daily 12 PM – 10 PM

    $Summer onlyParking: street
    Website
  • Soda fountain · Hard serve · Southampton

    Sip 'n Soda

    Homemade ice cream made on the premises since 1958

    The Parash family opened the soda fountain in 1958 and still owns it — the East Hampton Star, writing up the Bridgehampton Candy Kitchen's centennial, calls Sip 'n Soda "still owned by the Parashes to this day." They have been making the ice cream here the whole time: sixteen or so permanent flavors under a seasonal rotation that runs fresh peach and cantaloupe in summer, pumpkin and candy cane in winter. The Lime Rickey is enough of a house move that it now has a storefront of its own. It is the one venue on this list that is also a sit-down breakfast-and-lunch counter, breakfast until noon and lunch after.

    Hours · Breakfast 7:30 AM – 12 PM, lunch 12 PM – close (site posts winter hours only: to 4:30 PM, Sun to 4 PM)

    $Year-roundSeatingParking: street
    Also on /breakfast
    Website@sipnsoda4,715

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