Bellingham Wanderlust

I love ice cream and I want to visit Bellingham!

From the Bellingham Herald 7-23-06:

From the boss: “Mallard makes gourmet small-batch ice cream out of real food ingredients, with an emphasis on local and organic ingredients. We’re serving extremely fresh gourmet ice cream in a really colorful, fun, welcoming environment.”

Ben Scholtz, owner
Reader rave: “I just love it because they use the flavors of the season, like strawberry. After the (Bellingham) Farmers Market we always stop at Mallard for ice cream. There’s a really nice feeling in there.”

Wendy Urquhart, Laurel
Highlights: It may have moved recently to futuristically furnished new digs on Railroad Avenue (nab a seat near the fabulous fireplace), but this local favorite still dishes out the same homemade, sinfully rich and exotically flavored ice cream.
A glance around Mallard shows a mix of families, college kids, high school students and young couples in hog heaven. They’re all slurping up cones and sundaes made from inspired concoctions such as mint chocolate chip, exotica rose petal and black pepper flavors.
For the calorie conscious there are fat-free (but no less scrumptious) fruit sorbets.

AND THE WINNERS ARE … 1. MALLARDS ICE CREAM AND CAFE

1323 Railroad Ave.

734-3884

Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday

parking is free in weekends :)

Hashbrowns that are really 2 meals for less than 5$ ?? What budget conscious college student after a night of clubbing wouldnt love that?

The pizza is awesome! It’s unique but not weird. The fire gives the food a wonderful flavor. They also have this dessert called a s’more. You should definately check that out!

Mentioned on Bellingham-Today, on first visit you think “what’s the big deal?” Follow up visits teach you to appreciate the Black Drop. It’s local. It’s honest. It knows coffee. It knows Bellingham. Enough said.

If you’re passing through go to Starbucks. If you’re spending time in town, skip the 55 drive thru espresso stands, park the car, wander around and use the Black Drop to meet your friends, check your maps, plan your days, ask locals for ideas, check your emails, ponder reality, bitch about the weather or politics….

I spent my four years of college here, earning my Bachelor’s degree in Spanish. I love the campus and here is where I met my husband and my best friends.

Mmm…cheese fries.

On Fridays they will give each patron a free double shot of espresso, as long as you’re willing to drink it straight… Really fantastic coffee! I was a regular there for a long time. One of the saddest parts of moving out of Bellingham is that I can’t get my daily caffeine intake there! The baristas are swell too.

I used to go for the lunch special: personal pizza & salad for about $7… I loved the chicken potato pizza so much that I couldn’t bear to order anything else. They drizzle it with a balsamic glaze that’s ou of this world! Also they put roasted pumpkin seeds in the salad – hooray!

There are actually 3 used bookstores on this block in downtown Bellingham. Michael’s is a labyrinth of shelves, stacked to the ceiling with used books in just about every subject. A great place to go for browsing, especially fiction. They don’t keep an inventory, but the staff really know their stock.