Big Dipper Ice Cream Parlor

Really disappointed to find extremely overpriced, barely mediocre ice cream. After deciding on a sundae, we were a little shocked to find that whipped cream was an additional $.70. That’s a lot for a tiny squirt on top of my already pathetic looking $ 4.19 small sundae. Never again…

Okay, so I was visiting Fredonia and was told that I needed to try this ice cream shop as the ice cream here is the BEST.
Well, it’s good, yes, but far from the best I’ve ever eaten. I got the special sundae and the ice cream had ice chips in in, which makes me crazy. Now, for me, top-​notch ice cream is as creamy as creamy can get. This is not that type of ice cream. It’s good, but not the spectacular gourmet ice cream I have had from other specialty shops that make their own ice cream. They do have an amazing array of flavors and various types of sundaes.

I hadn’t been to Big Dipper in a while so I decided to stop on my way through between Jamestown and Buffalo. It is a brightly colored, family oriented place with room for families, sports teams, and friends to meet up and enjoy a sweet treat.
They have a variety of homemade «basic» flavors from mint chocolate chip, butter pecan, chocolate peanut butter and more. They also feature some specialty flavors that it looks like they rotate like Funfetti, and the Coconut Almond Joy that I went for. There is also a selection of Italian favorites like Panna Cotta and more. They would have probably been served better for the Italian varieties to have some sort of description posted. They only had the Italian name and 1 had «chocolate hazelnut» listed under. They may have had these listed on a couple of the handheld menus, but I did not see any out at this time.
They also have soft serve custard in choc/​vanilla and a rotating flavor. Ice cream cakes, cookie sandwiches, and a few specialty sundaes.
My coconut almond joy was good, but lacking in coconut flavor. I will say the chocolate shavings were high quality and there was a good number of almonds in it. I am mainly subtracting a star because they size of the cone was lacking. I ordered a medium which was about $ 3, and it was smaller than some ‘small’ size cones I have seen at other places including those with homemade ice cream. Their website also looks like it is from about 1998 and has no working pages to list flavors.
They also now accept credit cards and have gift cards that can be used there and for the attached car wash.

Went here twice in two days over 4^th of July weekend. On the first trip, I had a tiramisu sundae, which has coffee ice cream, hot fudge and caramel, chocolate covered nuts, and whippped cream. Others in the party had lemon cake and mint chip. It was all good.
They sure do have a lot of interesting flavors (+1). And it looks like they’re all homemade (+1). So is the whipped cream (+1). And on the second trip, I had a special request. See, my all-​time favorite and my childhood ice cream parlor is a place, also called The Big Dipper, in Prospect, CT, although there is no relation to this parlor. What I always would get at my hometown Big Dipper was called a Meteor Milkshake, that is a milkshake with a scoop of ice cream on top. So I made a special request at *this* Big Dipper for an Irish cream milkshake with a scoop of Italian pronto chocolate on top. They took care of my special request (+2) and it was awesome. Five stars.

Great place! So many wonderful flavors to chose from. I had peach ice cream, my friend had cotton candy, and there was the vanilla twist. Also could of had a lime/​vanilla twist. Will definitely go again soon.