This is a scoop I have been longing to get my hands on for some time!

Van Leeuwen ice cream is coming to MA and you heard it here FIRST!

Having started as a single ice cream truck that featured “French style” ice cream that is still made with more than double the amount of egg yolks as almost everywhere else, Van Leeuwen now has 30 scoop shops in New York and over 40 more from California to Connecticut and DC to Philly.

Not one to take things easy (or to take the easy way to make ice cream, such as by using pre-mixed bases or fillers and ingredients you can’t pronounce and may not be able to digest), Van Leeuwen’s is climbing to Chestnut Hill (where we recently lost Odd Fellows), spending Summer in the Seaport, and hitting Harvard in time for Head of the Charles.

No matter which shop you visit, however, you will be amazed by the freshness of the ice cream and the fresh ideas of the flavors, including their legendary vegan ice creams (including my personal fave – Peanut Butter Brownie Honeycomb) and their mashups with the likes of Hidden Valley Ranch, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and BIGFACE Coffee. Ice cream purists can be confident ordering what The New York Times says is the best vanilla ice cream, but when you also know that the pistachios come all the way from Mt Etna in Sicily and the marionberries from Stahlbush Island in Oregon, their other flavors are surely worth a try!

If you just can’t wait, Van Leeuwen’s also ships nationwide and is probably somewhere you will be visiting soon. As for me, I plan to camp out on The Street in Chestnut Hill so I can be the first to enjoy my favorite ice cream a bit closer to home.