Mint Chocolate Chip

Wally's Wicked Good Ice Cream is in the Auburndale "village" of Newton, just northeast from where 128 and the Mass Pike cross (and not far from the Auburndale commuter rail stop.) It's a narrow store front tucked in next to a pizza place; a couple of indoor tables, but no sidewalk seating. I was there the day before Halloween - if their website is accurate they may have closed for the season after that.

Bright and cheerful interior¹ with counter service and a freezer. Aside from a couple of dozen ice cream flavors, they have frozen yogurt, sherbet, sorbet, italian ice; they also have lime rickeys, floats, frappes (with or without malt), and frozen lemonade. They also have cookie sandwiches and sundaes - mostly build-your-own but they had a "Fluffernutter Sundae" on the specials board.² Their Toppings board had a long list of candy, along with the usual nuts and sauces.

First Visit

I started with Extreme Chocolate, which was a rich, strongly flavored chocolate base, with brownie bits, chocolate chips/chunks and chocolate swirl completing the picture. It's an appropriate use of the term "Extreme", and if you're in the mood for chocolate, you can just get that and be satisfied.

Since I like to try at least two flavors, and I'm a big Thin Mints™ fan, I combined the Extreme Chocolate with Mint Chocolate Chip³ which was a good pairing. Clear mint flavor, without going all the way to Grasshopper.

Next Visit

I'm actually tempted by the Fluffernutter Sundae, but they also have Cookie Monster and Graham Central Station. They also have Moose Tracks and PB Oreo (they have five different oreo-based flavors plus a S'moreo Frappe, which is certainly a theme.) I'd also consider their Peach ice cream in summertime.

Getting There

Wally's comes across as the kind of place you'd mostly want to walk to (possibly after pizza next door) but Newton is the beginning of the high density/high traffic/insane road design "inner suburbs" of Boston, and being so close to the Pike⁴ it looks on the map like a "you can't get there from here" sort of place. Once you do get there, even the road it's directly on is under construction.

The trick is to go down Melrose Ave - the little side road just south of the shop - where you'll find a bunch of parking and several GreenSpot electric car chargers. If they're full you can continue to Melrose St and make two lefts back on to Auburn St which has street parking.