The ice cream at Dr. Mike’s is amazingly good.  Hyperbole words are deserved here - incredible, fantastic, maybe mind-blowing.  If you are ever traveling along I-84 around the Danbury/Connecticut/New York state border, Bethel is a little bit off the beaten path but well worth the detour just for this ice cream.

This is the blueberry and peach.  The fruit flavors here were good but not as intense as I would have liked them to be.  It was the texture of this ice cream which really blew me away.  The butterfat content seemed quite high but the ice cream also had a lovely, soft, very rich airiness to it.  When you dipped your spoon in the ice cream pulled away and tore and twisted, almost like some sort of lovely dairy confection in a cup.  Things went to the next level when sundaes got involved:

On the bottom is one of Dr. Mike’s signature flavors, Chocolate Lace.  The base is sweet, white, and creamy.  The “lace” part is a revelation - sharp, crackly shards of chocolate candy that crisp and break and shatter in your mouth.  On top is Dr. Mike’s peanut butter sauce, which was very salty compared to other’s I’ve had.  I loved it but if you are not super-keen on salt you might want to pass on this one.  On top is a big fat cloud of real whipped cream.  Amazing.  Every single component in this sundae was phenomenal, with top-notch quality and freshness.  It tasted like real food someone real actually made and lends me to think Dr. Mike’s is easily my favorite of the New England ice cream joints I have tried so far.  Plan a trip!

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