During the summer, ice cream is the perfect choice to overcome the heat and, fortunately, there's plenty of great places around South Carolina that serve up the cold, sweet treat.
To help narrow down the search for your next cup or cone, Food & Wine compiled a list of the best ice cream in each state. To qualify, each shop had to be in "uninterrupted production" for at least one or two years.
"Even with this kind of guidance in place, the decisions in some places ended up being almost too difficult. Hopefully this list, which didn't necessarily favor old or new, but rather asked the question, fifty times, what feels the most essential, depicts as well as it can, the diversity and depth of our national ice cream culture."
So which spot serves up the best ice cream in the state?
Off Track Ice Cream
Marc and Alissa Zera turned their hobby into a business when they opened Off Track Ice Cream in Charleston in 2019. Made from scratch in-house, Off Track has plenty of dairy and vegan options so anyone can find a flavor they love.
Here's what Food & Wine had to say about South Carolina's best ice cream:
"Ingredients tend toward the obsessively local, starting with the milk of course, alongside orange blossom honey from Charleston favorite Apis Mercantile, flaky sea salt harvested just minutes from town at Bulls Bay, and much more."
Check out the full list here to find the best ice cream in each state.