Would You Try Lobster Ice Cream?

If you’ve ever cracked into a lobster and thought, “Hmm, this would be better a la mode,” then Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium in downtown Bar Harbor is your place.

Lobster Ice Cream from Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium in downtown Bar Harbor, Maine
From our June 2016 issue

The frozen facts:

3 pounds

Lobster meat in every 4 gallons of butter-flavored ice cream

410 gallons

Churned last year

$5.55

For a small cone

$120

For a two-gallon bucket (give or take, depending on lobster’s market price)

1 mile

Out-and-back distance of the nearby Bar Harbor Shore Path, on which you should probably jog after eating one

66 Main Street, Bar Harbor. 207-288-3281.

August 2024 cover of Down East Magazine

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