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ALLEYWAY ICE CREAM
135 Partition Street, Saugerties
Some of the freshest scoops can be found, yep you guessed it, in an alleyway. Owner Julian Hom first opened the tiny shop in 2017—and it’s since grown into something very special. Foodies travel from near and far to order buttermilk strawberry, Key lime crunch, matcha salted pistachio, and Thai tea cookies and cream.
TASTE THIS Ube Heath bar crunch. Ube, a yam from the Philippines, is all the rage thanks to its pretty purple
hue and nutty flavor. Alleyway blends the tuber with toffee for a creamy-yet-chewy texture. Level up your order with a warm waffle cup.
COW TO CONE All milk
and buttermilk are sourced from Hudson Valley Fresh, a Poughkeepsie-based, farmer- owned company. alleywayicecream.com @alleywayicecream
CARMEL CREAMERY
105 Towners Road, Carmel Hamlet
Adult ice cream lovers: listen up! Carmel Creamery has five fun flavors—coquito, vegan coquito, maple bourbon pecan, dirty banana, and mudslide—that are infused with liquors like Kahlúa and rum for a boozy kick.
TASTE THIS This shop offers just about everything—from old-fashioned scoops, cups, and sundaes to Italian ice, fruit sorbets, ice cream sandwiches, milkshakes, and floats. Popular flavors are Cookie Monster (which is dye free), salty Oreo (swirled with sea salt caramel), and blackberry basil.
COW TO CONE Milk and cream are sourced from Hudson Valley Fresh. Other ingredients are also local— including berries, goat cheese, maple syrup, and honey. Carmel Creamery also offers gluten-free and vegan options. thecarmelcreamery.com @thecarmelcreamery
CHERRIES
4166 Route 209, Stone Ridge
This old-school stand has attracted locals and day trippers alike since the 1950s. And when Jolene Delisle and Lawrence O’Toole—who moved to Kerhonkson in 2020—heard its legacy was
in jeopardy, they stepped in. Four years later, Cherries continues to wow with inventive flavors like coffee toffee, cookie monster, and coconut raspberry, plus ice cream sandwiches, soft serve, and special sundaes.
TASTE THIS Lavender
honey blueberry. The super- refreshing flavor is infused with clover honey from New York bees, ripples of blueberry jam, and French lavender. COW TO CONE All of Cherries’ hard ice cream is hand-churned at Del’s Dairy Farm in Red Hook. The
soft serve is sourced from Gardiner’s Gillette Creamery. cherriesicecream.com @cherriesstoneridge
COXSACKIE CREAMERY
12 Reed Street, Coxsackie
There’s a bit of history with every scoop: this Reed
Street building once housed an ice cream parlor in the early 1900s. Owner Sharon Mahota—retired from a career in social work—decided to bring back sweet treats to
FOODIES TRAVEL FROM NEAR AND FAR TO ALLEYWAY ICE CREAM IN SAUGERTIES
TO ORDER BUTTERMILK STRAWBERRY, KEY LIME CRUNCH, MATCHA SALTED PISTACHIO, AND THAI TEA COOKIES AND CREAM.
the growing downtown of Coxsackie. Flavors range from peanut butter munch to killer chocolate; you can also purchase pints to go.
TASTE THIS Order a coffee cookie scoop in the house- made Belgian waffle cup topped with Mahota’s fresh hot fudge. (Be on the lookout for special flavors come fall such as ginger snap molasses, caramel apple spice, and pumpkin spice.)
COW TO CONE The creamery’s 24 flavors are sourced from Jane’s Ice Cream, an almost 40-year- old family business based
in Kingston that uses dairy from cows raised synthetic- hormone free. coxsackiecreamery.com @coxsackiecreamery
CULTURE CREAM
318 Warren Street, Hudson
Founder Katiushka Melo whips up gut-friendly, fermented treats—think froyo but created with kombucha and kefir. You’ll find three types of scoops: kombucha sorbet, vegan ice cream (house-made cashew and coconut milk, and cocoa butter), and kefir ice cream. Popular flavors are blueberry thyme, passionfruit lemon balm, and earl grey lavender. TASTE THIS Kefir mango merquén ice cream. Merquén is a smoked chili used in South American cuisine.
COW TO CONE The kefir is sourced from Five Acre Farm (a Brooklyn-based company that works with farms within 250 miles); herbs and spices are foraged by Melo in the Catskills; and the sorbet is made with Yesfolk kombucha, a functional beverage company based in Troy. eatculturecream.com @eatculturecream
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PHOTO COURTESY OF CHERRIES