Graeter’s Was… Greater!

About a year ago Saqib was looking online for good ice cream shops and he stumbled upon a company named Graeter’s.  He was so excited to read about this company because the site kept praising it as one of the best ice creams in America.  The company sets itself apart from the rest because they use a unique method to make their ice cream– the French Pot method.

After reading up on the store, he shortly thereafter became bummed out.  Why?  Because the store is only open in IN, OH and KY.  The closest one to him, in Illinois, was more than four hours away!  How would he ever get to eat the yummy ice cream he’d read so much about?

Enter our plans for our honeymoon.  We decided a while ago to drive to Tennessee.  We wanted to drive because we wanted the chance to stop at different places on our way down.  We were discussing different places we could stop and eat at on our drive down when we realized we would cross the path of… Graeter’s!

So on Friday when we left, after about 5 hours of driving, we took a detour in Louisville KY and pulled into this place.

We were so excited and quickly looked over the menu

They had all your standard flavors… and then some.  They had strawberry chip, tangerine cream, mango sorbet, blackraspberry chip, and all sorts of other chips.  I tasted a few of them and at one point the girl behind the counter said it was too difficult to get any chips on the spoon.  Apparently they were too big, but I couldn’t imagine how big.

Anyway, I ordered chocolate chip cookie dough and Saqib ordered blackraspberry chip.  Why am I telling you?  Let me show you.

This ice cream was ICEY.  It was so crisp and cool.  The ice cream was firm, it didn’t start to melt down the side of the cone.  And when you licked from one side, it was thick enough that the ice cream would just shift to the other side.

And this ice cream was CHUNKY.  From the picture above you can’t see how large the chocolate chunks were.  But at times when we would be eating, all of a sudden one would come into our mouth and it would be completely fill our mouths.  This is a result, again, of the method they use to make their ice cream.

Yes, the chunks were the size of a quarter.

I think I’ve said enough.  The point is, if you’re ever in Indiana, Ohio, or Kentucky, hit up a Graeter’s location and check it out!