Two former investment bankers opened this strip-mall scoop shop on Shea in 2008 and landed on national best-ice-cream lists without a Brooklyn address or a publicist. Everything is made in-house in small batches from Arizona dairy.
Salted butter caramel built the reputation and is still the right first order. After that, chase the rotation — Medjool date, sweet corn in summer — or take the honey blue cheese dare, which pays off.
When to go: weekday afternoons, when you have the counter to yourself. On summer nights after eight, the entire Shea Corridor turns up at once.