Banana Boat

Nothing special here. Standard ice cream place. Got cookies in cream in a waffle cone, milk shake, and a lime ricky. All good. Good location near the T and the beach.

I love the Banana Boat! Is it the best, most high-​quality ice cream I ever tasted — No! But eating my chocolate vanilla twist dipped in chocolate while walking along Revere Beach made me feel like I was 5 years old again and the world was my oyster! My friend ordered a sundae and the small was so big it was fit for a small family. We had a great time eating our sweet treats — what a nice little gem not far off the boardwalk!

This is another local Revere Beach Tourist Trap.
they claim there Banana Boat is world famous but it’s just a mushy very over priced garbage banana split. On a hot summer day on the beach nothing is quit like ice cream which reflects the often packed store front in the summer.
Despite this their ice cream is just OK and everything else is not worth the price because it just plain sucks and is SO EXPENSIVE.
I recommend the small vanilla cone at $ 4.25 you will get a 6 inch tall vanilla soft serve. Its decent but again pricey for the largest «small» ever, don’t order the large it will instantly collapse because the 12 year old that serves it will make it too large to fit through their window and you will have problems.
If your looking for ice crème for the kids go for it but you might be better off walking to the 7 – 11 around the corner because it just isn’t worth the price.

The ice cream shoppe’s version of a dive bar. Dirty, sandy, full of Revere Beach riffraff, with some exceptionally delicious sweet finds.
I have a penchant for their vanilla soft serve dipped in chocolate that quickly hardens. Tip: Do not order this on a 95+ degree day (or night, as I did). It melted all over the sandcastles at the festival.
A modest but solid selection of Richie’s slush, and good hard ice cream in addition to the popular soft serve variety.
They are known for their classic namesake item, the Banana Boat. Prepare to be wowed into a diabetic coma. They are generous with the whipped cream. Banana boat ride straight to heaven.

Banana Boat is a staple of Revere Beach, in a world of Ben & Jerry’s, Pink Berry, and Cold Stone this place is a refreshing throwback to the days of simpler ice cream/​frozen yogurt. Solid, but typical, selection of ice cream and frozen yogurt flavors. They carry the kind of frozen yogurt that tastes like ice cream, not the type that tastes like real yogurt, which is much harder to find these days. They also carry the chocolate and butterscotch sauce that creates a hard coating on top of your ice cream, I haven’t seen that stuff in years.

Pretty mediocre ice cream place which happens to have a very good location. It’s close to the T, close to the beach and is very noticable.
It probably deserves 3 stars, but any reputable business that doesn’t accept cards in 2010, shouldn’t exist.

It is a tacky ice cream shop steps from the beach, exactly as it should be. Both the fro-​yo and soft serve are tasty and they have loads of toppings. Pricey, but it is a beach trap so you deal.
Impossibly convincing location, as you cant not walk directly by it on the way back to the Blue Line.

A couple of winters ago, my girlfriend and I decided to explore some areas farther up the Blue Line than our apartment. On that trip, we came across a place called Banana Boat, which was closed for the season, but had an outdoor menu that made us really want some ice cream on a December night and had us making a mental note to return in the summer.
So this summer, we found ourselves wandering Revere Beach and knew it was time to try Banana Boat. While in line, we saw a million different things we wanted to try, but decided to go with Ann’s Famous Banana Boat, as we figured something good enough to name the establishment after was probably worth a try.
We were sharing the banana boat, unsure if it would be enough and if we might want more after. We figured that if it weren’t, we could always just get back in line.
Um, yeah. It was enough.
The center of the banana boat is two large towers of soft serve ice cream. We got it with one vanilla and one chocolate. Each of those towers is topped with chocolate syrup, then a huge dollop of whipped cream and a cherry.
On either side of those towers is a half of a banana, and any remaining space in the plastic boat is stuffed with strawberries and pineapple bits, and then so much of this delicious, sweet, fruity pink-​gray goo that it will leak out in every direction if you don’t keep the container perfectly level. Also, for some reason, a tiny American flag. We didn’t eat that.
All I really have to say is, it was so good. It wasn’t mind-​blowing or unique, it was just really good. It was what a banana split should be. It was a towering mass of diabetic bliss that left us full and satisfied and wanting to go take a nap on the beach to digest. Some other customers who saw how huge the banana boat was were amazed when they realized we’d actually managed to eat the entire thing. Frankly, we were, too, but it was just so great. My only regret is that we lost some of the delicious goo.

Three words: pineapple frozen yogurt. So amazing, and apparently sugar free/​fat free. I watched the girl make it by putting 2 little disks of plain frozen yogurt and a cup of pineapple chunks into a machine that read «Yogurtomatic.» A strange preparation, but the result was a creamy, light, delicious soft served filled with little bits of pineapple. The $ 4.50 waffle cone was HUGE, and the perfect ending to a day at the beach. Only drawbacks are the cash only policy and a severe lack of seating.

This is what would normally be a 3 star review. But let’s review the context:
Revere Beach.
Ok, that being said, Banana Boat was a breath of fresh salty air in a garbage-​scented sky. The staff was alright, but the ice cream was pretty awesome.
Here’s the thing at Banana Boat: you get to mix flavors. Somehow, the soft serve machine mixes the toppings (i.e. oreos, heath bars, etc) into the ice cream before it actually dispenses it. Therefore, you can mix whatever flavors you want. Wowza, this makes for endlessly creative flavor possibilities.
So if you end up in Revere Beach, and you need something to save you from the inevitable depression that will undoubtedly set in, grab a cone from Banana Boat… it’ll at least temporarily off set the sadness.

Ice cream and the beach. Two quintessential things about summer.
I used to frequent here when I was a kid. Yeah, this is probably the place where I’d build up my ice cream addiction. They serve up ice cream, banana splits and protein drinks. The ice cream is not high quality and the flavor range is basic, but it’ll satisfy your tastebuds for something cold if you happen to be at Revere Beach.