Chestertown’s Main Street Ice Cream Parlor and Restaurant

Gore Mountain & Schroon Lake AreaChestertown

May 30

Written By Eat

A Norman Rockwell painting, soda fountain, boutique, bakery, fantastic breakfast and lunch spot all rolled into one near Gore Mountain.

Chestertown’s Main Street Ice Cream Parlor and Restaurant.

You can’t miss (and you don’t want to) the big, beautiful yellow building right in the heart of Chestertown in the Gore Mountain & Schroon Lake region of the Adirondacks.

Main Street Ice Cream Parlor serves not only ice cream but fantastic breakfast and lunch dishes; we crave their handmade sandwiches, soups, and salads.

The bright, cheerful dining room has tables and booths, plus an honest-to-goodness soda fountain. The decor features memorabilia from Adirondack days gone by.

In warmer weather, they have an outdoor, shaded dining area with picnic tables that is also pet-friendly.

Delicious home-style Adirondack breakfasts.

Open weekdays at 8:30 am and at 8 am on weekends, a visit to Main Street Ice Cream Parlor is an outstanding way to start your day. The menu features a large selection of omelets, egg sandwiches and dishes, hot-of-the-griddle pancakes and waffles, and bakery items.

If you’re craving something healthy, they offer Greek yogurt parfaits, fresh fruit and their “School House Oatmeal” with locally produced Toad Hill maple syrup, walnuts, cran-raisins, and fruit.

Let’s do lunch.

Main Street Ice Cream’s lunch menu is extensive and everything is made fresh. There is a large selection of garden-fresh salads, with classics like the Chef Salad, as well as a delicious Chevre and Arugula salad or Sue’s Salad Plate — tuna salad, daily side salad and cottage cheese, surrounded by seasonal fruits and vegetables with their house walnut balsamic vinaigrette.

One advantage of dining in a small Adirondack town is that many of Main Street Ice Cream Parlor’s greens and vegetables are seasonally grown in their organic garden, right behind the restaurant. Now, that’s genuinely farm-to-table.

Other lunch fare includes homemade soups, signature sandwiches like the Lumberjack Club (Corned beef and turkey layered with lettuce, tomato, cheddar cheese and basil-garlic mayo on white toast), grilled sandwiches and burgers. They also have a kid’s menu for the Lil’ ADKers.

Save room for some of the best desserts in the Adirondacks.

No meal would be complete without sampling their fantastic ice cream creations. They offer all the traditional sundaes with toppings like Hot Fudge, Hot Butterscotch, Marshmallow, Chocolate Syrup, Peanut Butter, Strawberry, and Pineapple.

However, we think the stars of the menu are their creatively decadent Parlor Specialities. Try the Buster Brown — One scoop of ice cream topped with hot fudge and one scoop of ice cream topped with hot butterscotch layered in a soda fountain glass. Or how about the White Water Raft — Two homemade fudge brownies and two scoops of ice cream surrounded by banana pontoons, topped with hot fudge and chopped peanuts?

And Lil’ ADKers are bonkers for the Dirty Fisherman — a mini combination of chocolate ice cream, chocolate syrup and gummy worms.

Beyond excellent food and ice cream.

This destination is more than delicious ice cream and cafe, though. This family-owned establishment boasts a captivating second-floor gift and clothing shop with a surprisingly wide selection of merchandise. Their take-home pies are very much in demand, too.

So Treat Yo’ Self! Visit this sweet spot today.