Cj's Big Dipper - Bar Harbor

Took my partner here while on our hiking trip. It was nice to see how many options they had, we almost couldn't decide. Everything was ordered was delicious; we would have gone there every day if we could have. Do note that this place gets unbelievably busy at night. I would go before 3pm, if you can.

Adorable ice cream shop! They have a dedicated Soft Serve machine with Almond Milk Chocolate and Vanilla Swirl available! They also have a dedicated vegan cooler filled with 6 vegan Ice cream flavors with both almond milk and soy milk based ice cream along with 3 sorbet flavors. The Ice cream was smooth and delicious! The best in Bar Harbor!

Staff was a little less organized than the other two ice cream shoppes nearby and store is cash only. However, their vegan milkshake (vegan soft serve and soy milk) was generously sized (enough for two to split) and they had several interesting flavors of sorbets AND non dairy ice cream at the very far end. I only tried the maple walnut, which was very good. It was creamy like ice cream but not quite as flavorful as I thought the maple should be. I will definitely return to try their other flavors of scoopable non dairy ice cream. I’m not a fan of soft serve but they do have vanilla, chocolate and swirl if that is your thing. Updated from previous review on 2021-07-13

They had some amazing vegan flavors in the case this weekend from cappuccino Oreo, raspberry swirl, mocha fudge plus their usual almond milk soft serve. We got their vanilla chocolate swirl soft serve it was very good! Their hard ice cream vegan options sounded so divine!

Vegan gelato, soy and almond based. Also vanilla and chocolate soft serve (almond) and sorbets. Gelato made in house. They no longer make dairy gelato as of this year! It's delicious. Approximately 6 flavors offered.