Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream
“We make the best!”
Located in the heart of downtown Mystic, Connecticut, this historic seaport community, steeped in maritime history, is also know for its history of delicious homemade ice cream.
Beginning in the 1800s, Randall Brown, Jr. served delicious, homemade ice cream from this same store. In the early 1900s, Ebenezer Morgan continued the tradition and called his store, “The Riverside Ice Cream Garden.”
And in the middle of the 20th century, John Koulbanis made his delicious homemade ice cream and candies here in this store.
Today, Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream, using the finest, pure ingredients, continues the“Tradition Of Ice Cream Excellence."
We, at Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream, carry on the tradition, making "The Best" homemade ice cream in the same store that has given Mystic its history of excellence for over 100 years!
How we make our ice cream…
First, in honor of the European tradition, we start with rich cream from a local dairy. Our cream is top of the line, pasteurized, with no added hormones or preservatives.
Then, depending on what flavor we are making, and what the recipe calls for, we add in the necessary ingredients into the mix.
We only use the best ingredients. Such as; sweetening with real cane sugar, to cooking down and emulsifying real, fresh fruits, to sourcing only the best, pure Bourbon vanilla, or imported Dutch cocoa. We even go as far as custom roasting our nuts, and strive to only buy local, whether that be maple syrup, honey, lavender, etc.
Each flavor and recipe is unique. Most of our flavors are family recipes of over 32 years!
Second, we minimize the overrun. The air percentage added is called overrun. All ice cream has air whipped into it, otherwise it would freeze rock solid. Most so-called "homemade" and mass-produced ice creams you will find, are made with about 80-100% overrun.
This means that, by volume, almost half the ice cream is air. By contrast, we, at Mystic Drawbridge, make all our ice creams with only 20–50% overrun. That is why our ice cream is richer, creamier, and more flavorful. In this manner we can retain maximum freshness and flavor.
Third, we make all of our ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbets, one batch at a time. We carefully hand mix every batch, folding in our fresh fruits, nuts, candies, and any other mix-ins.
It is a true “labor of love." We take great pride in what we do, and dedicate ourselves to providing our customers with only “the best" ice cream possible.
Here is Cheryl Robdau, making ice cream back in 1995 (left) verus 2023 (right)
Here you can see some fresh vanilla coming right out of the machine!!
Our hom-made ice cream flavors and other sweet treats!
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Mystic Mud
Kahlua Mocha Fudge
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup
Lemon Chocolate Kiss
Sticky Fractured Finger
Chocolate Mint Oreo
Seaport Salty Swirl
Peanut Butter Swirl
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Pure Vanilla
Chocolate Truffle
Kona Coffee
Vanilla Chocolate Chunk
Oreo Cream
Café Mocha Chunk
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Mint Chocolate Chunk
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Fresh Fruit Strawberry
Southern Peach
Barbados Rum Raisin
Black Raspberry
Toasted Coconut
Ginger Spice
Wild Maine Blueberry
SEASONAL FRUIT
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Vermont Maple Nut
White Pistachio
Toasted Almond
Buttered Pecan
Jamaican Me Nutty
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Vegan Chocolate Almond Joy
Vegan Peanut Butter and Jelly
Vegan Seasonal
Seasonal Fruit Sorbets
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Frappe/Ice Cream Shake:
3 large scoops of Ice Cream blended with Milk & Syrup to create a Thick Shake.
Optional: Malt Powder added to Frappé Blended into Shake.
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Sorbet Freeze
Your Choice of Fresh Juice & Sorbet.
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Syrup, Cream, Soda Water mixed with 2 Scoops of Ice Cream topped with Whipped Cream & a Cherry
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Syrup, Cream, Soda Water mix together topped with Whipped Cream & a Cherry (A Brooklyn Favorite).
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Ice Cream Floats
Your Choice of Fountain Soda with 2 Scoops of Ice Cream Afloat topped with Whipped Cream & a Cherry.
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Strawberries, Pineapple, and Banana with Strawberry Juice
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Blueberries, Strawberries, Banana and Coconut milk
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Banana, Peanut butter, Cocoa Sryup, Almond Milk
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Mango, Pineapple, and Peaches, with mango juice
Classic Sundae
2 scoops ice cream, choice of hot fudge, caramel, peanut butter sauce, or marshmallow topped with whipped cream & a cherry.
Turtle Sundae
2 scoops ice cream, hot fudge, caramel, walnuts topped with whipped cream & a cherry.
Caramel Lovers Sundae
Sticky Fractured Finger or Turtle Ice Cream, caramel sauce, broken butterfingers, heath bar topping, whipped cream & a cherry.
Brownie Overload Sundae
(Or Cookie Overload Sundae)
Half brownie (or cookie of choice) on the bottom and half broken brownie (or cookie) on the top filled with your choice of ice cream, hot fudge, walnuts, whipped cream & a cherry.
Chocolate Delight Sundae
Mystic Mud or Chocolate Truffle Ice Cream, hot fudge, M & M’s, broken Oreo’s, whipped cream & a cherry.
Peanut Butter & Fudge Sundae
Chocolate Peanut Butter Reese's or Peanut Butter Ice Cream, hot fudge, peanut butter sauce, peanut butter cups, Reese's pieces, whipped cream & a cherry.
Strawberries n’ Cream
Strawberry or Pure Vanilla Ice Cream, marshmallow sauce, fresh strawberries, whipped cream, & a cherry.
Location:
2 West Main Street
Mystic, Connecticut 06355
OPEN YEAR ROUND, 7 DAYS A WEEK!