Milk & Honey
240 E. Front StreetWe didn’t go crazy with dinner at The Little Fleet because we had other plans. We’re in Traverse City….so we need to go for a walk and find some ice cream, right?
Traverse City is just the quintessential Northern Michigan summer tourist destination. It’s a great city any time of the year but summers in Northern Michigan just hit different.
J, L, and I were in Traverse City for a figure skating competition at Centre Ice Arena. L had events on both Friday and Saturday so we stayed the night.
We wanted to walk a little bit after dinner so we headed further in to downtown Traverse City to find ice cream.
We stopped at Milk & Honey on Front Street near Park Street. The small ice cream shop is across the street from the State Theatre. Before becoming the local, organic, GMO free ice cream shop, this space was a Cold Stone Creamery and they do some of the same things Cold Stone did.
The shop is set up like any typical ice cream shop. There’s a long order counter where you need to go to the back of the space. There’s an ice cream cooler with all of the usual flavors but they’re not from the big ice suppliers. The ice cream is made locally from ingredients “free from genetic modifications, harmful chemical pesticides, hormones, and antibiotics.”
J and L went with simple scoops. They both got Honey Lavender.
I’m sure J got a second scoop but I didn’t write it down. She usually likes to mix flavors.
I was the one that went for something a little fancier. That’s really unusual…I’m typically the boring one.
I picked the Cookie Dough from the house recipe. This is where the Cold Stone history comes in. They use a granite stone to mix cookie dough, fudge, and caramel sauce in to the Sweet Cream ice cream. The Cookie Dough pieces are huge and home made. The big soft chunks are mixed in to ice cream with a lot of chocolate and caramel. The ice cream is so thick and so rich. You really don’t need a lot of this ice cream but you also can’t stop eating it.
Milk & Honey was worth the walk and we needed the walk back to the car after eating it. The ice cream is so rich and creamy. On top of that, it’s just a good local shop to support. They’re really environmental conscious with both their food and their waste. There’s even a sign in the window announcing they have public restrooms…which is the opposite of what you typically see in businesses. It’s just a place that seems to really care about the people and their surroundings…but they also scoop really great desserts.
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