Billerica

I made a summer evening visit to Meadowlands Homemade Ice Cream 1 While they have a large parking lot and a field with picnic benches, they basically only have the lighting you see in this picture, so you'll have to take my word for it about the benches. The usual "a few serving windows under an overhang", with a whiteboard off to the left describing special flavors in detail (and little signs by the serving windows with just the names.) They're just inside 495 and just east of Route 3, a couple of blocks from the Billerica town line.

First Visit

Turns out the signs aren't entirely consistent; the Triple Play sounds good, but the other menu only listed Triple Threat (which was tasty but was described at the counter as having chocolate swirl and chocolate cookies rather than peanut butter.)

Triple Threat was tasty - with more of a dark chocolate taste than you usually get in ice cream.

The other half was Coffee Cookies and Cream - good coffee flavor, the orange color may have been the artifical lighting (inside my car) interacting poorly with the phone's idea of white balance, but it had lots of texture from the cookies, and paired well with the chocolate.

Next Visit

When I go back I'll probably give the Fluffernutter or S'mores flavors a try, but they also have a good range of classics like Maple Walnut, Butter Crunch, and Peppermint Stick; "Coffee Fudge" also has my attention.


  1. As of 2024-08-22, the official website at http://www.meadowlandsicecream.com/index.html is an expired SquareSpace page. The Greater Merrimack Valley Visitor's Bureau page is pretty nice, though. (Since the shop reopened with new ownership at the end of April, this may simply have been lost in the transition.)