This Italian-based ice cream chain may be the city’s most elegant purveyor of gelato, flaunting pedigreed flavors such as Ecuadorian-sourced chocolate and Sicilian DOC pistachios. Comfy furniture invites lounging and there’s a selection of candies, too. The method of acquiring the product – pay first, get a chit, stand in a line that prevents you from surveying the flavors – can be annoying.

Yes, the familiar American ice cream chain founded in California in 1945 and advertising its “31 flavors” is currently ramping up its presence in the city, often in conjunction with Dunkin’ Donuts locations.

BGIC elevated the city’s baseline soft serve, first from a truck, where sea salt, olive oil, and dulce de leche were lavished on quite normal soft serve. Later, the place upped the ante by developing its own proprietary soft-serve mixes. The Salty Pimp is one of the city’s great ice cream creations.

Billing itself as “An American Yogurt Company,” this New York City-based company makes a fetish of its bacteria cultures, offering fresh strained and frozen yogurt with a variety of fruit and grain toppings. (Opening Soon)

Wait a minute! This place was a L’Arte del Gelato as recently as a few weeks ago, and at press time the gelato at the rebranded identity remains untested.

This Milanese ice cream and gelato chain specializing in chocolate and coffee flavors was once so popular, it had lines going down the block. Especially good for affogato: vanilla gelato with a shot or two of espresso poured over the top.

This is the third year for this summer pop-up (at this location till September 24), which slings New Orleans-style sno cones in some rather wild flavors.

Soft-served conceived of as diet food, with the grit to prove it.

An old-guard pastry shop dispensing exceptional traditional Italian ices and gelatos.

This former newsstand peddling People’s Pops has been closed by the Board of Health, as evidenced by the yellow sign. Hopefully, this location will overcome all obstacles and reopen soon.

This ancient Italian pastry shop excels at old-fashioned water ices and milk ices, as they used to be called. Any fruit flavor preferred.

The kinky sounding specialty of this popular shop is goat-milk ice cream, a particular favorite of lactose intolerants. Fashion-forward flavors include salted caramel and orange-blossom vanilla.

This Italian fro-yo chain, founded in 1993, promises hormone-free milk, biodegradable cups, fresh cut fruit, and six strains of bacteria. This yogurt would have been Louis Pasteur’s choice, and that just might be him waving from the bench in front.