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I scream, you scream, all of Winston-Salem screams for ice cream! Whether you take it in a cup, cone, or on a cookie sandwich, you can find delicious ice cream right here in Winston-Salem.
Updated June 2025
Twin City Sweets
ADDRESS | 2594 W Clemmonsville Rd, Winston-Salem
Twin City Sweets is an ice cream stand that carries ice cream (obviously), soda floats, candy apples, and candied roasted nuts. Enjoy its large sundaes in an adorable fenced-off area full of picnic tables and stringed lights. The stand is closed during the winter months.
BONUS: Twin City Sweets loves to host themed ice cream nights, weeks, and even months, such as The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.
Abbott’s Frozen Custard
ADDRESS | 6312 Clemmons Point Dr, Clemmons
Although it’s a chain, Abbott’s is a great place to go after dinner, a sports game, a day in the park, or whenever you want to enjoy some delicious frozen custard. Custard is made from egg yolks in addition to cream and milk. It is also prepared differently than ice cream, making it a denser treat.
FUN FACT: While chocolate and vanilla are always on the menu, other flavors rotate daily to allow you to try all of its delicious options!
Chill Nitro
ADDRESS | 616 W 4th St, Winston-Salem
Choose your flavor, toppings, and spirits (if you want), then watch it all get mixed together and frozen using liquid nitrogen! Chill Nitro’s unique technique creates a smooth, creamy-thick ice cream – perfect for you to enjoy!
FUN FACT: Choose from one of 11 different flavors and over a dozen toppings!
Legends Ice Cream & Churros
ADDRESS | 2021 Griffith Rd, Winston-Salem
Legends Ice Cream & Churros is an ice cream shop that sells artisan ice cream and churros and Mexican treats such as Mangonadas and Esquites. It also has milkshakes, aguas frescas, hot and iced coffee, and much more! Enjoy your milkshake with or without a delicious churro.
PRO TIP: Not sure what to order? Try the popular Nutella Smackdown!
Dewey’s
ADDRESS | 262 S Stratford Rd, Winston-Salem, and 2876 Reynolda Rd, Winston-Salem
A true staple of Winston-Salem. Its ice cream is slow-churned daily. Ice cream flavors include Moravian Cookie, Oatmeal Sandwich, Banana Pudding, and all the classics.
PRO TIP: Can’t get enough of the delicious ice cream? Pick up a quart and enjoy more of your favorite treat at home!
Mayberry Ice Cream
ADDRESS | 50 Miller St, Winston-Salem
Mayberry Ice Cream has that classic ice cream parlor feel. With nearly 30 different flavors on the menu, plus a few seasonal options, you’ll be coming back again and again to try something new. You can also enjoy one of its delicious flavors in an ice cream sundae, malt, milkshake, or banana split!
BONUS: Mayberry’s offers a few sherbet and sugar-free ice cream flavors, too!
Zack’s Famous Frozen Yogurt
ADDRESS | 305 Jonestown Rd, Winston-Salem
Open since 1987, Zack’s is a local favorite. With frozen yogurt, Hawaiian shaved ice, sundaes, shakes, smoothies, and more, Zack’s has something for everyone to enjoy! Classics like vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate are always available, but special flavors change every day to give you a reason to return.
FUN FACT: Most of the frozen yogurt flavors are either sugar-free or fat-free!
Paleteria La Sirenita Ice Cream Shop
ADDRESS | 623 E Sprague St, Winston-Salem
Paleteria La Sirenita offers many delicious desserts, including ice cream, sundaes, churros, and gourmet paletas. With many of its desserts including fresh fruit, this ice cream shop is the perfect place to enjoy a refreshing, sweet treat on a hot day!
GOOD TO KNOW: Paleteria La Sirenita does not accept credit cards or Apple Pay, so be sure to bring cash with you!
Cindy’s Snow Creamery
ADDRESS | 4060 Clemmons Rd, Clemmons
Cindy’s Snow Creamery serves up fluffy, delicious snow cones in a long list of flavors; there are over 100 listed on the menu! Cindy’s has several outdoor picnic tables where you can sit and enjoy the fresh air while you eat your snow cone.
NOTE: The shop is closed during the winter months so plan accordingly!
Sabor Tropical Ice Cream
ADDRESS | 716 Waughtown St, Winston-Salem
Sabor Tropical Ice Cream has over 20 ice cream flavors and over 30 popsicle flavors along with various authentic Mexican desserts. With everything from smoothies and milkshakes to paletas and esquites on its menu, Sabor Tropical Ice Cream is sure to have something you’ll enjoy!
PRO TIP: We hear great things about the Fresas con Crema and Mangonada, two of Sabor’s most popular menu items!
Cupcake Cuties Cafe & Bakery
ADDRESS | 8363 N NC Highway 109, Winston-Salem
Cupcake Cuties is a local family-owned bakery, and all the ice cream is locally sourced from either Homeland Creamery or Hershey’s. This adorable bakery has 24 creamy flavors of ice cream, and select flavors are available as milkshakes, sundaes, banana splits, or soda floats. Cupcake Cuties also has seasonal flavors for the fall and winter seasons.
BONUS: Enjoy your sweet treats in classic white rocking chairs on its quaint patio!
La Princesa Frozen Treats
ADDRESS | 9 E Clemmonsville Rd, Winston-Salem and 3248 Silas Creek Pkwy, Winston-Salem
La Princesa Frozen Treats offers various Mexican confections like paletas, esquimos, bionico, raspados, and much more. All of its desserts are made in-house and handcrafted as you order.
FUN FACT: La Princesa has several dairy-free options if needed!
Dream Kreams
ADDRESS | 102 W Third St, Winston-Salem
After operating as a pop-up shop for five years, Dream Kreams finally has a permanent location! It offers dozens of unique ice cream flavors like Peach Cobbler, Puerto Rican Summer, and French Toast. Even better? All the ice cream flavors have a non-dairy variety so that anyone can enjoy this sweet treat.
FUN FACT: A few Dream Kreams flavors, like Almond Ameretto and Coquito, are infused with alcohol.
Kilwins
ADDRESS | 308 S Stratford Rd, Winston-Salem
Kilwins’ original ice cream has been made the same way since the 1980s! The shop has a variety of toppings: everything from hot fudge and caramel to sprinkles, nuts, gummy bears, and mini M&Ms. Even better? Kilwins makes its waffle cones in-house.
BONUS: Kilwins also offers delicious chocolates, caramel apples, and fudge!
Cafe Gelato
ADDRESS | 845 Reynolda Rd, Winston-Salem and 1612 S Hawthorne Rd, Winston-Salem
Started in 2005, Cafe Gelato is Winston-Salem’s oldest gelato shop. Each location makes its own gelato and sorbet, so you’ll find different flavors available depending on where you go. The cafe also serves coffee, wine, and – only at the Hawthorne location – boba tea!
GOOD TO KNOW: Flavors are available on a rotating basis!
Dollops
ADDRESS | 1351 Lewisville Clemmons Rd, Winston-Salem
Stop by Dollops if you’re looking for something unique! Alongside traditional ice cream, Dollops also serves kulfi (a rich, slow-melting Indian-style ice cream) and falooda (an Indian “milkshake” made with kulfi, rose syrup, basil seeds, and vermicelli).
BONUS: Dollops also serves three types of chai if you’re in the mood for something hot!
Happy’s Ice Cream
ADDRESS | Sets up at Cobblestone Farmers Market from May to October
This mobile cart serves up a rotating selection of homemade ice cream, sorbets, and popsicles! Happy’s Ice Cream is also served at Washington Perk if you’re in the mood for their frozen goodness during the week.
BONUS: You can book Happy’s Ice Cream for events like birthdays and weddings!
Looking for more sweet treats? Check out our bakery guide!
