Blue Line Creamery
2241 Saranac AvenueIce cream for dinner is a thing when you’re on vacation….right?
It was for B most of the week while we were in Lake Placid, NY for the Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships at The Olympic Center.
He had eaten at Emma’s Lake Placid Creamery a couple of times then he and J did the Ben & Jerry’s on the north end of downtown one night too.
Our last night in Lake Placid we found ourselves back in the hotel fairly early. I didn’t feel great and J and B were tired of sitting at the rink. L stayed downtown with her friends though. They went to dinner and got ice cream before heading back to The Olympic Center to get their stuff.
The previous nights, I had gone by myself to pick her up but this time, she had a lot of stuff. B still had his competitor badge so he was able to run in at the athlete’s entrance and help her carry bags out to the car.
He didn’t really want to leave the hotel….so we bribed him with ice cream.
We were kind of in a hurry to get back to the arena to get L and neither of us wanted to deal with the downtown crowds. We had been driving past a little walk up ice cream shop every day so I suggested we just stop there.
Blue Line Creamery is on Saranac Avenue at Nash Street on the west side of Lake Placid. The shop on the corner is part of a multi business building that is designed to fit in to the neighborhood around it. They look to have opened in the fall of last year. This spot was an ice cream joint in the past but it was called Mountain Mist Ice Cream which was an off shoot of a long time popular ice cream spot in nearby Saranac Lake.
Blue Line Creamery is a walk up summertime ice cream stand. The menu board is written on a chalkboard that is propped between the ledges of the two walk up windows. They do a number of soft serve treats but have some scoopable ice cream as well.
The scoopable ice cream comes from Perry’s Ice Cream in Akron, NY. There’s a decent amount of flavors but it’s still weird being at an ice cream shop and not seeing the Michigan flavors we’re used to. Doesn’t everyone have “Superman” and “Blue Moon?”
B picked a scoop of Cotton Candy just like he did at Emma’s in the days prior. He got a single scoop in a dish and it came with two small scoops in a plastic cup. I think he’s gotten tired of us making fun of the way he eats ice cream because he was much better at handling the ice cream without making a mess this week than he has been in the past.
J did the soft serve thing and got a classic vanilla and chocolate swirl. She got the small which is 5 1/2 twists.
I didn’t get anything because I was pretty full from our dinner from Smoke Signals so all we got was those two treats. The cost was right around $10.
Blue Line Creamery is nice because it’s away from the crowds of downtown. B got the same thing he would have gotten at Emma’s and they had quite a few options if hard pack ice cream isn’t what you’re looking for. We had passed by this place all week so as soon as B said he would go back downtown with us but he wanted ice cream, I knew exactly where we could go.
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