Beyond Root Beer: Cool Floats for Hot Nights

Summer allows for brief flings with childhood eating habits like ice cream from a truck or hot dogs in the backyard. But there’s no need to seclude yourself at the kids' table with this season’s batch of ice-cream floats.

Restaurant Ice Cream to Go

A handful of sit-down restaurants hoping to cash in on summer ice-cream cravings have started selling creamy, pastry chef–approved servings to go. We sampled their results, and offered our own superlatives.

Quality Meats Testing Its Own Ice-Cream Brand; Wild Bill Clinton Eats at Hill Country

Artisanal now serves serious steak and Oceana will have a raw bar when it moves, in today's neighborhood food news.

Mister Softee Chases Good Humor Man Away From the Corner

Mister Softee doesn't care how retro the Good Humor man looks. He just wants him out of the way.

Good Humor Man of Old Returns, Bringing … Good Humor

As if from a time machine, the original Good Humor man rolled up to the Museum of Modern Art yesterday.

R.I.P. Irvine Robbins, Founder of Baskin-Robbins

Let's have a moment of remembrance for Irvine Robbins, the founder of Baskin-Robbins and one of the last great ice-cream moguls.

Scoops for 31 Cents Add to Ice-Cream Madness

After Ben & Jerry's gave away free cones yesterday, Baskin Robbins will get in on the action with 31-cent scoops.

Seymour Burton’s Old Beast of an Ice-Cream Maker Churns Away in the Basement

Director Arden Wohl Only Eats Fish Twice a Week