Canal Creamery

I was looking for an interesting place to take my daughter as we celebrated an early Father’s Day and picked Chesapeake City. Since we met earlier in the day for breakfast, I searched for a place where we could enjoy an afternoon snack and picked the Canal Creamery.
Tasty ice cream with a killer view — what’s not to like? The sugar-​free butter pecan was really good and my daughter thoroughly enjoyed her two-​flavor selection as well. The service was friendly and we will definitely return.

How can you not love a place that has a little sculpted cow on its front bricks and a giant ice cream cone on a chalkboard inside? This adorable ice cream and baked good shop, with its floral curtains looks like an old fashioned ice cream parlor. And old fashioned ice cream it serves, sourced by a local farm, Kilby’s and another I could not remember. This is not the high fat, premium ice cream or gelato you get in some gourmet ice cream store for $ 5 a mini scoop but the good, tasty, homemade, creamy type you got as a child. Think Stouffers, a better quality Breyers… We had the chocolate mixed with coffee/​chocolate chip, and the peach. My friend was disappointed in the peach, not creamy enough or enough peach flavor. The chocolate/​mocha was much better, and interestingly enough, the mocha was sweeter than the chocolate. After a bad lunchtime meal, this ice cream went down smooth. At $ 2.49 a small scoop, which was a medium by NY standards, it was cheap. I don’t know what Kathy M was talking about unless prices have dropped. Maybe she ordered a triple sundae.
The service here is exceptional, friendly and super eager and they ramp up the charm of the creamery. I noticed this with almost all the young people who served us as we drove and visited this area… they were all nice, friendly and enthusiastic about their jobs… OMG, are these the Stepford kids? They were, I am sure, just the lovely children of all those wonderfully sweet MD people we encountered on this trip. All joking aside, when I went back in to request napkins, the server ran over to me with a stack in hand rather than just point out the napkin box. Hey, give this girl a raise!
Outside Canal Creamery are benches you can take your cone to and lick while you gaze at the boat activity on the canal and get a view of the D&G bridge. I was told years ago the canal was only 14 feet wide and someone widened it to the expanse it is now. Damn, you mean someone actually chose trade over dessert so the poor Chesapeake City residents at the other side have to cross a bridge for their ice cream? Shameless.

Just stopped here for the first time after an afternoon of very casual crab eating at the Tap Room. I always seem to crave chocolate after eating crabs and I’m so glad I found this place.
The ice cream is made from milk from a local dairy/​farm and the flavors are unique, I had the mudslide (chocolate, caramel, coffee) delicious. Everything is hand dipped and the service was a little slow, but worth the wait. It was a beautiful day and they provide plenty of outdoor seating right on the water. Lucky for us there was a band outdoors at the Bayard house next door and we were able to enjoy the music. I will definitely go again.