Bi-Rite Creamery

Boasting that it makes “small-batch, artisinal ice creams,” Bi-Rite offers such unusual flavors as salted caramel, strawberry balsamic, honey lavender, and chocolate soy. Plain vanilla is superb, and the banana split is sensational, topped with chocolate sauce that is cocoa turned to liquid velvet; the lengths of banana caramelized in amber syrup; the walnuts toasted crisp; the whipped cream as dense as crème fraiche. Dazzling!