Christina's Homemade Ice Cream
Ice Cream · Inman Square · Since 1983
Chef-owner: Raymond Ford · Opened 1983
Originally opened in 1983 as J.P. Licks's second location; an employee bought it in 1984 and renamed it after his daughter Christina. Later sold to Raymond Ford, a social theory academic with a serious spice collection who still runs it.
Under $15 per person
Inman Square ice cream institution since 1983. Extremely broad house-made flavor rotation — adzuki bean, burnt sugar, grape sorbet, carrot cake, honey lavender, green tea, ginger — from owner Raymond Ford.
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1255 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Sun-Thu: 12PM-10PM, Fri-Sat: 12PM-11PM
10 min walk from Central
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