J.P. Licks in Davis Square!

[feoh.livejournal.com]

OK, so when Krispy Kremes came to town, everybody and their uncle went screaming for donuts. Me, I think they're disgusting, but to each his own :)

Anyway, Denise's, right across from the Holland Street Davis Square T stop, just got bought out by my favorite ice cream place, J.P. Licks.

Colleen turned me on to the fact that their ice cream is better in basic areas like dairy quality, consistency and flavor rather than necessarily getting insane with wacky flavor combinations (Which can be good too, places like Christina's and Tosci's do this well. I love Tosci's ginger snap molasses ice cream, and the egg nogg ice cream around Christmas :) so I always end up getting something simple there like strawberry or sweet cream or a chocolate malted frappe and being quite happy with it.

Anyway, yay. Groovy new things opening in Davis Square. See you all around. I love walking around in this nice warm weather :)

Comments

[ranger1.livejournal.com]

Many of my neighbors and I are not pleased about the demise of the "real" Denise's. The flavor selection has decreased. And I'm not sure what happened to the way-cool staff that worked there prior to the takeover. I didn't see any of them the last two times I was there. I hope they weren't all laid off. Davis Square won't ever be quite the same for me.

As for J.P. Licks' ice cream, I think it's alright. Nothing I'd write home about.

I suppose I should be thankful that Denise's wasn't bought out by Baskin Robbins or something even worse....

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

The ice cream is lighter, which can be good and bad.

What's with the Total Gap Staff working there now? I'm sure the staff has no control over the dress code, but it looks like they were all picked to be that safe generic middle america prototype. We miss the old staff muchly. It's funny how something intangible as character makes a place stand out. We're poorer for their absence.