Scoops Ice Cream

Bloomington, MN

Since it hit 97° here on Tuesday, ugh, we found ourselves at an ice cream shop. We are both born and bred Minnesotans so we don't need an excuse, like it being incredibly hot in May, just to get ice cream. We'll eat ice cream in any weather. You'd be amazed at how many times we eat ice cream on -20° days. That's just how Minnesotans work. But, since the temperature reached god-awful, ice cream was required.

We played a round on mini-golf at Dred Scott and then went to Scoops, which is just across the street. It's in a strip mall at the corner of Old Shakopee Rd. and Bloomington Ferry Rd. They have a selection of about 15 to 20 different flavors as well as soft serve and shakes. Some of the ice cream is Kemps (I think it was Kemps) and they have a few from Sebastian Joe's, which is a very popular ice cream shop in Minneapolis, and the rest must be their own. If you ask the owner of Scoops (who was in the shop when we were there) a question about the ice cream, it's clear he really has a passion for it.

I had the Pavarotti, which is a Sebatian Joe's flavor. It's banana, caramel, and chocolate. It was really good, but it's rather banana-y so be warned. My wife had the birthday cake ice cream. I don't remember the name. It was a Kemps flavor and it had cake flavored ice cream with chunks of yellow cake and sprinkles mixed in. That was very tasty as well.

Scoops is a fun little shop to visit any time in the Summer (it's closed in the winter) but especially when it's stupidly hot out.