Desserts & Ice Cream

Ben & Jerry’s Homemade

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102 West Franklin St (Downtown)
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

phone (919) 967-9068

Open daily, noon-11pm.

Your fun and funky ice cream emporium, serving Vermont’s finest ice cream, frozen yogurt and sorbets. We make cones, shakes, sundaes, the Vermonster and delicious ice cream cakes. ‘Let us scoop up some fun for you!’

Chocolaterie Stam

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1820 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd (Chapel Hill North)
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

phone (919) 967-9373

Open Mon-Sat, 7am-9pm; closed Sun.

Desserts & Ice Cream. Upscale chocolate store and café selling chocolates and other candies (50 flavors of bon-bons), gourmet coffee, cold drinks and pastries.

Cold Stone Creamery

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131 East Franklin St (Downtown)
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

phone (919) 933-2323

Open Sun-Wed, noon-11pm; Thu-Sat, noon-midn.

Employees make fresh ice cream daily, then customize it with a choice of more than 30 ingredients and flavors.

Franklin Sweets

143 B West Franklin St (University Square)
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

phone (919) 969-0064

Open Mon-Fri 8am-8pm; Sat 10am-8pm

Serves specialty coffees, house-made cheesecakes, pastries, mousse and cookies.  Also ice cream, milkshakes and juices.

Jaluka Juice & Cream

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300 Market St (Southern Village)
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

phone (919) 968-7722

Open Mon-Fri, 7am-9pm & 11am-7:30pm; Sat, 10:30am-7:30pm; Sun, 12:30-6:30pm.

Serves delicious fruit smoothies, coffee, frozen yogurt, hot teas, nutritional supplements and more.

Katie’s Pretzels

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200 North Greensboro St, #B9 (Carr Mill Mall)
Carrboro, NC 27510

phone (919) 967-4922

Open Mon-Fri, 10am-7pm; Sat, 10am-6pm; Sun, noon-6pm.

Fresh hot soft pretzels baked daily with assorted dips, popcorn, smoothies in numerous flavors, freshly squeezed lemonade, limeade, orangeade and grapefruitade, and hot beverages. Credit cards. Parking.

La Vita Dolce Espresso & Gelato Café

610 Market St (Southern Village)
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

phone (919) 968-1635

Open Mon-Sat, 7am-10pm; Sun, 8am-8pm.

Espresso and gelato café offers homemade gelato (Italian ice cream), sorbet in 20 different flavors, specialty coffee drinks, ‘grab & go’ pastries, and ‘decadent’ desserts.

Lickity Split Ice Cream & Hot Dogs

503 Meadowmont Village Cir
Chapel Hill, NC 27517

phone (919) 929-8402

Hours vary by season.

Full-service ice cream parlor featuring 32 flavors, including sherbert, low-fat and no sugar added, plus milkshakes, banana splits, sundaes and floats. All-beef hot dogs with all the trimmings can be paired with baked beans, potato salad, macaroni salad or chips. Veggie dogs also available. Great barbecue, Brunswick stew and sandwiches. Credit cards. Free parking. Smoke-free. Barbecue & Southern.

Locopops

431 West Franklin St (The Courtyard)
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

phone (919) 286-3500

Open daily, noon-9pm.

Desserts & Ice Cream. The owner trained in Mexico to offer an amazing variety of frozen pop flavors like mojito and tamerind, and interesting combinations like cinnamon-watermelon.

Maple View Farm & Dairy

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3109 Dairyland Rd
Hillsborough, NC 27278

phone (919) 960-5535

Open daily, noon-10pm.

Fresh ice cream in more than a dozen flavors, made with milk and cream from the adjacent dairy, plus milkshakes and other items (including some fat-free and sugar-free flavors). Sit in a rocking chair and enjoy a breathtaking sunset. Smoke-free.