Since last year's S'mores Day post I've continued to collect shops that have S'mores-related flavors. (Last year's article will do for details and historical references; of note for 2025 is that there was a google doodle - for Ecuador Independence Day (from Spain in 1809) which is celebrated with traditional meals, and not with S'mores.)

Sterling Ice Cream

Sterling Ice Cream has "Campfire S'mores".

Pizzi Farm

Pizzi Farm Ice Cream has "Campfire S'mores" - though they also have "Graham Central Station" which hits pretty close.

Mac's Dairy Farm

Mac's Dairy Farm has "Campfire S'moores" (consistent spelling between their on-site menus and their website, so I assume there's at least some intent behind it, though if they really want to commit to it they should add another "o" every year, and insist people order it as "Campfire S'mooooooooooores".)

Berlin Farms

Berlin Farms has "Campfire S'mores".

Trombetta's Farm

Trombetta's Farm has "S'mores" on their primary menu (they also have a fall seasonal menu.)

Great Brook Farm

Great Brook Farm Ice Cream has Campfire S'mores ice cream, but also a "Smores Sundae" with Campfire S'mores (or Graham Central Station when they have it?), Marshmallow Topping, Walnuts, Whipped Cream, Miniature Marshmallows, and a drizzle of Chocolate Sauce.

Cindy's Drive-in

Cindy's Drive-in does have a S'mores soft serve flavor (as well as regular Graham Central Station) but they also have a "Super Smores Sundae" - soft serve based, with hot fudge, marshmallow, and ground up graham crackers.

Cookie Monstah

Cookie Monstah lists a "Camp Fire Smores" flavor (but it's sold out as of Halloween 2024.) Also their Boston Magazine article described a "The Campfire" sandwich - 1 S'mores Cookie + 1 chocolate chunk cookie + milky way ice cream. Doesn't have it's own page but as of today it's pictured on the "visual menu" about half-way down their home page.

Scoop N Scootery

The Scoop N Scootery has a Campfire Smores ice cream flavor - but also a Smore Sundae which doesn't use it instead going with "Vanilla ice cream topped with mini marshmallows, chocolate chips and crushed graham crackers" which (except for the lack of fire, a key ingredient of S'mores!) is arguably more correct.

Wally's Wicked Good Ice Cream

Wally's Wicked Good Ice Cream has Campfire S'mores ice cream and Graham Central Station. At least around Halloween 2024, they also had a "S'moreo Frappe"¹ on their specials list.

Kay's Dairy Bar

Kay's Dairy Bar has S'mores ice cream and a "Super Charged Smores" Ice Cream Boat.

Mad Maggie's

Mad Maggie's didn't list anything S'mores-adjacent on their menu as of 1 November, but their website has S'Mores ice cream under Seasonals as vanilla with graham cracker chunks, chocolate chips, and marshmallow swirl; as is common, it lacks fire but it sounds like they've gotten the rest of it right.

Truly's

Truly's had ice cream in the scooping freezer labelled "S'mores", and a line on the sign that said "Campfire S'mores"; the latter is also on their website, as "graham cracker ice cream with mini marshmallows, chocolate chunks and graham crack swirl" (not a typo.) Their toppings menu also includes Marshmallow (Cold Sauce) and Graham Cracker Dust, if you wanted to enhance it a little.

Johnson's Restaurant and Dairy Bar

Johnson's Restaurant and Dairy Bar has a probably-seasonal (hand-written on tape, in early November) S'mores flavor on their ice cream menu.

Schoolhouse Ice Cream

Schoolhouse Ice Cream of Cape Cod has a Smores flavor on their normal menu; they also have Marshmallow on their Wet Toppings list. No graham crackers, though.

Moozy's

Moozy's Ice Cream and Frozen Yogurt lists a "Becca7 (smores!)" flavor on their normal menu. They also have Graham Central Station, plus they have Marshmallow on their "Sundae Toppings" list.

Mad Willie's

Mad Willie's lists a "Campfire Smores" flavor, which would probably go well in a Hot Fudge or Caramel Sundae, but they don't list any Graham or Marshmallow flavors or toppings (at least as of mid-February.)

Pizzi Farm in Waltham turned up as a surprisingly nearby option, for a place I'd never heard of (or accidentally driven past) before. They're sort of a "near miss" from some major routes - they're about halfway between Trapelo and Totten Pond roads, and halfway between Wyman St/128 and Lexington St. If you're on the section of 128 south of 2 and you see that hillside encrusted with large shiny office buildings? They're half a mile behind those.

Just because I hadn't been there, doesn't mean they're unknown - possibly because they were still open late even though it's September, there were twenty people on line ahead of me at 8:30pm. I don't think any place I've written about has been that busy, short of a downtown Boston J.P. Licks after a game.

They had four windows open and were serving reasonably efficiently - I still had a 15m wait, under a minute per person, but that shouldn't scare you off. I went back the next afternoon and there was only a ten person line; according to their website this place does stay open all winter.¹

First Visit

They have a lengthy menu, including Campfire S'mores and Chocolate Raspberry Truffle. I went with Chocoholic and Graham Central Station on my return visit, but got distracted by their soft serve - I don't think I've ever seen Creamsicle soft serve before!

Unfortunately, if you look closely, that machine is already switched over to fall flavors - Maple and Pumpkin (presumably a Maple-Pumpkin Twist given how those are configured.) So I went with my classic, a vanilla soft-serve chocolate dip cone.

Yes, it's pretty drippy as-served but that's pretty standard for dip cones.

Second Visit

I don't usually go right back to a place, but poking around the map I discovered Prospect Hill Park was nearby and had some interesting looking hill-climbing trails, so it seemed like a good combination - a big serving of ice cream and then some exploration. (Fall foliage in New England is unevenly distributed, so it turned out to be a photographer's dream combination of Sunset and Autumn Leaves along some otherwise sparsely used trails.)

The Graham Central Station was great, I think it's a relatively new flavor but I'm happy to see it more places. The Chocoholic had a nice dark chocolate flavor to it, but was a little less creamy than I expected, at least to my Tosci's-attuned tastes.

They also have Sundaes, Ice Cream Sodas, Frappes, Smoothies, Raspberry Lime Ricky, and Slush; they also have something blizzard-like called (appropriately, and I assume non-trademarkedly) "The Nor'easter".

I think for my next visit it's a tossup between trying the Maple soft-serve and their Hardy Pond Mudd² flavor, though the Coffee Fudge and Strawberry Cheesecake also look tempting.

One of the places I go for wildlife photography and exercise is Wachusett Dam, in Clinton - convenient parking on Route 62 at the top of the dam, and a pair of 250ish step staircases down into the basin and back up the far side. (There's also a more gentle but much longer access road if you're at the bottom and find the stairs overwhelming - which is also a prettier path if it's Fall and the leaves have started changing.)

Turns out that the closest ice cream place is Rota Spring Farm (around the northwest side of the lake - on what is basically a shortcut from 110 back to 62, which you can take to 190 to 2 and be directly on the fast path back to Boston; alternatively, if you're doing the Fall Tourist thing, Davis Megamaze is right there too.) Plenty of parking, the shop itself is a couple of serving windows under an overhang, with another window for hotdogs and subs, as well as a "farm stand" shop. Lots of picnic tables (including a handful under an overhang) with a very New England-scenic view of the adjacent farm with cows and goats (the farm is down a small hill and wasn't a strong smell, but it had just rained for 20 minutes before I arrived.)

First Visit

One thing that the more interesting ice cream places have in common is concocting their own flavor mixes, and naming them. While at this point things like "Moose Tracks" (vanilla ice cream, chocolate swirl, chocolate chunks) and "Green Monster" (mint chocolate chip with chocolate cookies) are reasonably consistent across the state, more advanced combinations need more of an explanation. While the server was happy to explain "Ruby's & Onyx" (chocolate chip with maraschino cherries) when I asked, they also had a detail menu with all explanations (right next to the serving window - I didn't notice it before I asked, but that's on me.)

I ordered a large, and since that's three scoops the server asked which one I wanted more of - which ended up with me getting three flavors instead of my usual two: Butter Crunch, Graham Central Station, and Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl.

The butter crunch was actually "crunchable" - sometimes the crunch bits are too solid to safely bite down on, this didn't have that problem. The ice cream itself was good - not as strong as the Bright Yellow variant from Chelmsford Creamery but that was unique; this one was fine, and the "crunch" part was far above average.

Graham Central Station (which as a train geek I picked just for the name as anything) turns out to be a Graham Cracker Ice Cream with chocolate-covered graham cracker pieces - which turned out to be a better "S'mores" ice cream than any of the ones I've had so far that were trying to be. They should add a sundae that's just this, a dollop of marshmallow sauce, and wave a torch over it for ten seconds.

Finally, the Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl. This is one of those where the peanut butter makes the chocolate taste more chocolate (or maybe decades of Reese's ads have eaten my brain.)

In the future when I go for three flavors they probably shouldn't all be complicated multi-component ones, but they're so tempting...

Future Visits

I'll definitely try Cowabunga Crunch, Coffee Oreo or Cappuccino Chip, and Maine Wild Blueberry. They also have meatball and roast beef subs made from "[their] own grass fed beef" but the non-ice cream bits of the shop close down at 7 so it would need to be an earlier visit.