Things are getting a little sweeter in the neighborhood! 

 The Store will Open September 26th with $1 Scoops from 11AM-1PM and Feature a Collaboration Flavor with Flour Bakery

BOSTON (September 18, 2024): Following the well-received opening of its first Boston area location in Chestnut Hill, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream will debut its first scoop shop in Boston’s Seaport on September 26th. The brand will continue its expansion this year with a location in Harvard Square (coming very soon).

Van Leeuwen has teamed up with local pastry legend Joanne Chang (James Beard Foundation Award winner for “Outstanding Baker”) and Flour Bakery to create a limited-edition Lemon Meringue Pie flavor. The Lemon Meringue Pie flavor features toasted meringue ice cream with chunks of white chocolate-covered homemade crunchy pie crust and swirls of house-made tart lemon curd. This exclusive flavor will launch at the Seaport location and be available at the Harvard Square location when it opens this Fall.

To celebrate opening day on September 26th, Van Leeuwen will offer $1 scoops (excluding tax) from 11 AM-1 PM. Guests can enjoy $1 scoops out on the courtyard and say hello to CEO and co-founder Ben Van Leeuwen. 

“We are excited to bring Van Leeuwen to Boston, and to collab with one of the city’s best local pastry chefs to celebrate the Seaport scoop shop,” says Ben Van Leeuwen. “It’s been so fun working with Joanne and the Flour team, who have welcomed us to the awesome Boston food scene. We can’t wait for everyone to try the collaboration flavor and all the goodness Van Leeuwen will be serving up.” 

“We were thrilled to be approached by Van Leeuwen for an ice cream collaboration. Ice cream is one of my all time favorite foods so when they reached out I was over the moon. We have taken one of our iconic pastries, our mile high lemon meringue pie and together turned it into a rich creamy ice cream,” says Joanne Chang of Flour Bakery. “We went through several tests before we hit the right balance of all of these flavors. It was super interesting to learn how the development of an ice cream flavor works!” 

The Seaport location, located in The Superette at 70 Pier 4 Blvd, Boston, MA 02210, will be open Sunday–Thursday: 11 AM–11 PM, Friday–Saturday: 11 AM–12 AM.

About Van Leeuwen Ice Cream

Van Leeuwen is known nationally for creative seasonal flavors with a genuine focus on good ingredients and no unnecessary stuff, and for out-of-the-box limited-edition collaboration flavors such as Hidden Valley Ranch, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, BIGFACE Coffee Affogato in partnership with NBA All-Star Jimmy Butler and Espresso ice cream in partnership with singer/songwriter Sabrina Carpenter. The Seaport scoop shop will feature more than 30 signature flavors including its award-winning Vanilla Bean (named best vanilla ice cream by The New York Times/Wirecutter), Honeycomb, Pistachio (made with Pistachios sourced from Mount Etna in Sicily), Marionberry Cheesecake (made with vine-ripened berries from Oregon farm partner Stahlbush Island Farms), Praline Butter Cake and Earl Grey Tea, in addition to sundaes, homemade waffle cones, ice cream sandwiches, root beer floats, milkshakes and pints to-go. Popular vegan flavors that will also be available include Banana Bread Pudding, Peanut Butter Brownie Honeycomb, Strawberry Shortcake and more.

Van Leeuwen began as a yellow scoop truck on the streets of NYC in 2008 by Ben Van Leeuwen, Pete Van Leeuwen and Laura O’Neill, who were on a mission to make good ice cream from good ingredients that makes you feel good. Their French-style ice cream (made with more than double the amount of egg yolks as standard ice cream) quickly gained a loyal following. Van Leeuwen has since expanded and has over 60 scoop shops in New York, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, DC, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Texas. Van Leeuwen also opened their first international scoop shop in Singapore. Pints, ice cream bars and ice cream sandwiches are available in grocery stores across the country and to order for nationwide shipping from their website. To keep up with everything Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, follow the brand on Instagram @vanleeuwenicecream or visit www.vanleeuwenicecream.com.

About Boston Seaport by WS Culture, industry and community converge making Boston’s Seaport district a dynamic and vibrant area that has quickly emerged as one of the most exciting neighborhoods and destinations in the country. Seaport is currently Boston’s single largest development project. WS Development is transforming 33 acres of waterfront land with a carefully selected mix of residential, hotel, office, retail, entertainment, civic and cultural uses, and public open space across the district. Combining the best of historic and modern-day Boston, Seaport is the destination for fashion, culture, arts, dining and entertainment, and technology and life sciences, expanding Boston’s position as one of the top cities in the world for innovation, science, and quality of life.  For more information visit www.bostonseaport.xyz, follow Boston Seaport on Facebook, and @SeaportBos on Instagram and Twitter.