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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 · Soft serve · Frozen yogurt · Westhampton Beach

    Shock Ice Cream & Dessert Cafe

    The Carnival Cone cotton-candy cone, twenty-five years on Main Street

    The shop is "celebrating 25 years in the Hamptons" and bills itself as home of the InstaFamous Carnival Cone — a cotton-candy cone the teen crowd treats as an obligation. Ice cream, Italian ice, frozen yogurt, milkshakes. The Main Street walk-up answer after a show at the Performing Arts Center. Its site is a menu and a mood board with no address and no hours on it, so check before you make the drive.

    Hours · Afternoon into the evening (the operator publishes no hours; call ahead)

    $Summer onlySeatingParking: street

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