Ice Cream Dreams

Bert & Rocky's Cream Company in the Claremont village is one of our favorite hangouts. The ice cream is sinfully rich, and a scoop or two of their artery-hardening, butterfat-laden treats can be just the thing to complement the warmer days as the college year winds down. It's an old-fashioned ice cream parlor with its own brand of homemade ice cream. These places, like Fosselman's in Alhambra, seem to be getting rarer and rarer.

Call us hopeless romantics, but in these days of big box stores, we find something comforting in the little, individually-owned business. Wolfe's Marketplace, for instance, or Powell's Hardware on Yale Ave. when it was still around.

Kathy at A Passion for Food had a nice write-up for Bert & Rocky's on 3/27/2007, complete with mouth-watering photos.