“Oh you have to go to Sundae School, its the best!” I kept hearing that from a lot of people. So with high hopes Tess and I traveled to the Dennis Port for our first scoop of this highly touted cream.
The outside was nice with that old timey feel I have come to expect from Cape Cod. There was even a nice little bird house that I thought was very cute.
There was also ample seating and some very nice marble tables, a very classy act. When we went inside we found a lovely (if a bit dark) interior with lots of fun things to look at. Local sports pennants, pictures of baseball teams, it was very all American. You can tell that the ice cream shop if very involved with local sports teams and is a good member of the community.
The ice cream at Sundae School is advertised as home made and (gasp!) is actually made on premises every day no less. So few places we have been to that advertise as home made are actually made at home, that is at the shop. Most are made in Boston or in western MA and shipped to the cape. So far Sundae School was living up to the hype.
Tess got the Bass River Mudd (named after a local river), and I got the Cookie Dough. For the price (2.75) the serving was a little small. But the service was really good, Tess and I were playing “pretend to be tourists” so when I told the lady “we are playing pretending to be tourists, can we take pictures of everything?” she laughed and said “sure.” Clearly superior service. We went outside to dig in and that is when it happened. All of our Sundae School dreams began to crumble. With each bite we realized that well, to put it nicely, the ice cream just wasn’t that good. It wasn’t bad, that wasn’t the problem. It just wasn’t awesome. And from what we had heard we were expecting awesome, in fact from the hype we were expecting little mouth extravaganzas, little fireworks that would blow all our teeth out the front of our heads.
But instead we got, well average. The ice cream was good, it wasn’t icy, and it tasted good, but so does the stuff you get from the store. We could have gotten almost an entire pint of store bought and sat around gorging ourselves.
Ultimately that was the problem, the ice cream. The store was great, the service great, but the ice cream couldn’t back up the hype. On the way home we discussed that perhaps we should have got a sundae, I mean they are called Sundae School. Perhaps we will go back and research some more.
Tale of the tape:
Homemade: YES! Made on site every day.
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(around 30 flavors)
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Price $2.75 for a small. (kind of high for the size you got)
Specials: Lots of Sundae’s
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Address:
381 Lower County Rd. Dennisport, MA 02639
Phone:
508-394-9122
Driving Directions: Click Here