Durham, NC’s Favorite Handmade Ice Cream

in Downtown and Old West Durham

Scooping in two locations

Our flagship Downtown location has been at 117 Market St. since 2013! We’re open noon to 10:00 pm every day, featuring our handmade ice cream, house-baked cookies + brownies, and coffee drinks!

Our satellite location, The Parlour Junior, is a mini scoop shop based out of The Common Market on the corner of Iredell St. + Green St. It features a smaller (but still exciting) selection of scoops, shakes, and toppings 6 days/week.

Hours are slightly different per location, so scroll to the bottom of this page (or check your preferred maps app) for details.

And remember, you can always pre-order ice cream cakes on our site (for pickup downtown), or find select flavors in pints at The Durham Coop Market, Bulldega, and Melina’s Fresh Pasta. You can also find our ice cream in some desserts from Chez Moi Bakery and Alley Twenty Six

We make the best ice cream around, with the best ingredients. Our flavors are inspired by the seasons, our favorite well-worn cookbooks, and our childhood ice cream memories.

If you only eat one ice cream this month, MAKE IT THIS ONE. @strongarmbaking brought us some “ugly” oatmeal cream pies and we turned them into malted vanilla cream pie ice cream. And for the record, there’s no such thing as an ugly @strongarmbaking oatmeal cream pie. See you soon? Reminder that our @thecommonmarketdurham location is closing early today! Downtown open til 10. We’ve got pumpkin shake specials at both locations! Pumpkin gingersnap shakes downtown, pumpkin caramel shakes at @thecommonmarketdurham 🎃🆒 Vegan friends, have you tried the dirty chai coffee cake ice cream? It’s a coconut cream-chai-espresso base with chunks of homemade coffee cake. On the downtown menu now, coming to Junior soon! Have you tried our Brown Sugar Gingersnap ice cream? Housemade gluten-free gingersnaps are mixed into a spiced brown sugar base. On the menu at our downtown location now! 🫚🍪🍨