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, 8am-9:30pm; Sun, 11am-9:30pm.

Upscale chocolate store and café featuring chocolates and other candies, 50 flavors of bon-bons, truffles, and gourmet coffee, hot chocolate (of course), cold drinks, pastries and other treats.

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.

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-Thu, 7am-9pm; Fri, 7am-10pm; Sat, 9am-10pm; Sun, 9am-9pm.

Offers homemade gelato (Italian ice cream), sorbet in 18 flavors, specialty coffee drinks, ‘grab & go’ pastries, lunch specials 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 non-fat frozen yogurt, 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.

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

Locopops

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121 West Margaret Ln (Downtown)
Hillsborough, NC 27278

phone (919) 286-3500

Open daily, noon-9pm.

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

Locopops

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231 South Elliott Rd (Village Plaza)
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

phone (919) 286-3500

Open daily, noon-9pm.

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