Mount Desert Island Ice Cream, Washington DC, USA, April 2024

Company Description

If we make a vanilla bean ice cream, we scrape the beans, if we make lemon sorbet, we squeeze the lemons, one at a time. We use the finest bar chocolate we can use to make our chocolate ice cream. We are committed to keeping our ingredients real.

Review & Rating

When I went to the Ice cream store I was greeted with respect and with a smile, a young women by the name of Rebekka she was very respectful and very patient with me as I was on my journey to pick my choice of ice cream. Shout out to her she was really patient it was nice meeting you Rebekka.

Very tasty. $5 for a cup but worth every bite as a special treat. I got the Blueberry Sour Cream Crumble and my friend got Khulfi. Complex, delicious, and creamy.

So good!!! I was visiting DC when I tried it. The Khulfi is amazing!! Don't walk by...stop by!! You won't regret it.

Good ice cream. Many flavors to choose. You can sit outside and enjoy your ice cream

Tons of unique flavors + classics. Can’t go wrong with anything here, always tasty!

Mount Desert serves the creamiest and most delicious icecream around. Even the basic chocolate icecream is heavenly! I’ll be back soon!

This a really excellent ice cream shop. They have a variety of traditional and unusual flavors (unusual is the best choice!) Servings are generous - even single scoops are ample for one person. It is quite popular at most times - there are always a few patrons on their small front patio in fine weather.

This ice cream shop is the BEST in the DMV area. Reminds me of home up in New England. The flavors are fantastic. The strawberry sorbet is absolutely the best! I don't know how they pack so much strawberry flavor in such a small scoop but they do and it is FANTASTIC. Love the decor inside ... A few nice nods to the Maine origins.

I would rank it above Ice Cream Jubilee but below Jenni’s. The flavors aren’t *that* unusual as others claim (who ISN’T selling a salted caramel ice cream?), but what they have is good. The ingredients are clearly high quality (especially the chocolate—cheap ice creams skimp on good cacao) though for me the texture is just slightly off. I eat a LOT of ice cream if you can’t tell. I would come back for sure.