Golick's Dairy - Barrington

I enjoyed your ice cream so much that I didn't take a break to inquire with the staff about the shed full of antique dolls all staring blankly out the window.

Great people; great ice cream. Any time I have any sort of issue it is always dealt with so well and I just appreciate how good this place is. Though I do wish they would get a dairy free ice cream that isn't coconut based! Always have to go elsewhere for my niece.

Worst ice cream experience ever, which is to say the cashier/server was pleasant and offered to replace my dish of ice cream twice; the only reason he didn 't was because I didn 't complain, since I was already on 125 going north, and it wasn 't worth turning around to ask again. It was the ice cream itself that was a huge disappointment: I mean, how can you screw up butter crunch ice cream? (Answer. as spelled out in a previous post: put really really tiny bits of butter crunch candy, so few that they are hardly visible to the human eye, and just about as flavorful. My first attempt to recreate an earlier and very positive experience at Golick 's was lot order a dish of Fudge brownie cookie dough ice cream. By the time I reached my car, I had determined there was not only was there no chocolate chip cookie dough in my styrofoam ice-cream, there was also and no sign of the the ice cream full of chocolate ice cream and chocolate brownie bits. So I went back, and the same person who took my order offered to bring me another variety of ice cream. Only one non-ice cream ingredient, I though, not too much to screw up there. Oh yes there was: There were cookies, or rather there were hard pieces of cookies, and they looked and tasted like overcooked sugar cookies, and they were nestled in what looked and tasted like plain ole vanilla ice cream. So back I went. I hadn 't gone that far this time, but I was in my car when I turned around, which is something. I really like my ice cream to have a bit of texture, and so I went with the very non-intrusive butter-crunch candy alternative. The sprinkling of butter-crunch candy bits on top won out over my better judgement. See above. I wish I 'd thought to take pictures . . .

Good ice cream, lots of flavors and generous servings. But, like all other ice cream stands, prices are on the high side. The baby cones are huge and will set you back close to $5. I have not tried the hot dogs here, but I have heard they are excellent.

Delicious ice cream with an overwhelming variety of flavors! Don't settle for the standard vanilla or chocolate—be brave and try something new. I personally love the fruity options, like black raspberry or Maine blueberry; they are absolutely scrumptious. That said, at $4-5 for just a couple of scoops in a sugar cone, I won’t be coming here too often. The staff is very friendly, and they must have some strong arms from all the scooping they do!