Swirls & Scoops

Ice-​cream is great and it’s very convenient for us being in town. Only downside is service. Some of the girls are borderline rude. Other than that it’s great!

Their Soft serve ice cream is tasteless and the hard serve is just so so… cap that off with unfriendly slow service why bother? I can drive Just a few minutes up to the town common and have ice cream over at the Country Store where you can find tastier ice cream, happy people scooping your ice cream and eat on the Gazebo on the common instead of the dreaded parking lot at Swirls and Scoops. I grew up going to the Dairy Freeze which had the best ice cream in town! Swirls and Scoops doesn’t hold a candle to the old Dairy Freeze.

My grandparents Eleanor Ruth and Harold Somerville started the Dairy Freeze which is now Swirls & Scoops! Glad to see the land is still in good use. My grandfather’s garage is still being used, and the house they built back in the 1930’s at 4 Carrol Road is now Perrault’s Nursery!

Yum yum yum! As everyone else says, the small is TRULY HUGE. But the ice cream was so amazing that I ate the entire thing. Probably three full scoops for the small. I ordered Oreo cookie ice cream and it tasted like it had been freshly crumbled into healthy chunks and folded into the creamy vanilla base. I wish there was more seating outside, but people mostly just ate in their cars in the parking lot. There are two picnic tables on the side of the building, and two more next to the road flanking the store sign, so it’s nice to sit there and look out over the pond.

The ice cream was overall pretty good. The lines were long so either they’re doing something right or the people of Grafton don’t know any better. Biggest issue I had was that I ordered an ice cram cone and they literally just threw the ice cream on top of it. They didn’t put any ice cream inside of the cone. Is this even America? I mean seriously, who doesn’t put ice cream inside the cone??? Definitely not at the top of my list when Meola’s and Rota Springs are about equidistant from me.

good ice cream right near my uncles nursery. buy some plants!
pros:they give a good amount of food and have a variety of option
cons: long lines and a tad pricy
I definitely recommend for those summer days.

Been here only once, but I like to go back to see if I can give a place 5 stars.
The ice cream quality seems slightly above average; it doesn’t taste like Bliss ice cream and can’t quite tell if it’s Richardson’s.
The portions are big, and that’s a great thing in my book. The service was fast and friendly and the prices were very reasonable.
I was a little disappointed in the flavor selection, but that’s my own fault for being kind of picky. I certainly wouldn’t dock them for that.
Next time I’ll try a flurry or a sundae and see how it goes.

I’ll start with the good. I’ve gotten ice cream here many times and it is without fail delicious. There is an excellent selection of hard ice cream flavors. It’s a little lacking in the soft serve department and you should never go unless you’re willing to stand in line for a minimum of 15 minutes because the service is sloooooow. The people working are always friendly and serve up generous portions, but I’ve waited for 10+ minutes behind two people just getting ice cream cones. The ambiance leaves a little to be desired, but when it comes down to it, it’s all about the ice cream anyway and Swirls & Scoops is the best around.

This is a great little place for icecream! They have some really unique flavors sometimes and the scoop size is big. And it is delicious!

Best ice cream place I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to a lot. A small ice cream for $ 3.50 is the size of a large at most other places. You won’t be disappointed if you go here.

I’m an ice cream addict, and this place isn’t bad. I could see how this could get pretty busy on a summer day/​night. I ordered a «small» oreo ice cream, which could feed a family of four. I exaggerate. It was a very large «small» ice cream, more than I expected. Loved the oreo ice cream, my standard for all ice cream shops. Loved the huge hunks of oreo in every bite. Not as good as JP Licks or Uhlmans, but it satisfied my craving. My only complaint was the limited options of flavors– — I expected more!

Being from North Grafton, I grew up with Swirls and Scoops. I remember them when they used to be known as The Dairy Freeze! But Swirls and Scoops have definitely been around longer in my memory, and it’s always been a great place to go if you’re in the mood for ice cream. They run the gamut in types of ice cream, from soft serve to flurries to hard ice cream, and from there you have a wide variety of flavors within each type. You can also get a doggy ice cream for your dog! It really is a fun place to go… it’s a shame they are only open from April to October, but it’s understandable since it’s really a warm-​weather stop. The lines can long, especially on warm summer nights, but I believe it’s part of the appeal and your patience is always rewarded there as it is a local favorite. Enjoy!

Certainly not Uhlman’s or Dairy Queen, but for a local soft serve spot, they have it all. Super nice kids working there, high school kids I’m sure. Went here a lot growing up, so it’s a little nostalgic for me :)
In a pretty good parking lot, so it’s not too hard to park most of the time. High summer after soccer lets out, I’m sure it’s not a dream, but I have never had a problem with the line or the parking.

Flurries are so good. I was there the other night. The lines can be long. They open April 1^st and have a countown sign in the window. I think last year it was snowing on April 1^st and I went there and the whole town of Grafton was there! We were all getting ice cream in the snow.

We’ve heard good things about the pistachio frozen yogurt from friends here so decided to take the longer drive to try them out instead of the other froyo shops we frequent. the shop is in a shack where you order outside (just like gibby’s in worcester or meola’s in west boylston). we were the only customers there and we came to try the pistachio but they didn’t have it on the menu for the day. So i ended up ordering a small ‘purple cow froyo’. asked what was in it, the girl replied dark chocolate and white chocolate chunks with black raspberry froyo! the small was $ 3.50 and boy was it big! we jumped back into the car and headed back home. i took my first bite and was blownnn away! it was delicious! every bite was filled with chocolate or white chocolate chunks. I ended up not finishing the whole thing but boy was it delicious. I will try to make an effort to stop by here again!

Live right down the street but now go out of my way to get ice cream instead of going here. The workers are very nice but the lines are long and the wait is slow, very slow. We are talking 20 minutes to order a small ice cream cone for 4.00. The soft serve and hard ice cream both have a chemical taste. The cones were stale as well as the toppings.
It is located in a very busy parking lot/​retail center. You just sit in a crowded parking lot. There is a lake across the street but not really a place to sit and enjoy.
There are not alot of choices in the area so they definitely have that going for them.

From opening until fall there is always a long line of fat sloths waiting for their treat. I should know because I was regularly one of them. It’s worth the wait.

I just moved right down the street from this place this winter. I couldn’t wait for it to open so I could check it out. My husband and I finally got around to it last night. Well, it wasn’t worth the hype we built. The ice cream was good, but it was not mixed AT ALL. I ordered a bananas foster sundae which was $ 5. The top was a mess of whipped cream, way more than I like. Some cinnamon was sprinkled on top and some bananas placed around the edge. The ice cream was good except that I had to bite several large chunks of ice throughout it. The entire bottom was caramel. If I wanted to just pile ice cream with some toppings, I’d make it at home for ¹⁄₁₀ of that price. For a $ 5 sundae, I’ll drive to a Cold Stone Creamery where I know they’ll mix it up really well and hold the ice.
They wouldn’t make my husband a flurry from the flavor ice cream he wanted. They only make flurries with soft serve. Another thing that makes them not as good as Cold Stone or even Dairy Queen. I’m guessing that means they don’t make shakes from all of the flavors either, just soft serve. I’m not sure. His birthday cake sundae was hard as a rock. Broke the plastic spoon. He has sensitive teeth so he couldn’t really eat it until it warmed up a bit because it was so solid he had to bite it and his teeth couldn’t take it. I expected more from a mom-​and-​pop type of place. I hate it when the big chains prove to be better.

This place always seems to be packed and finally stopped in. Got a sundae and threw most of it away. The nuts tasted stale and left a bitter after taste. Ice cream was average at best. I expected much better especially after seeing everyone’s reviews.

Love me some Swirls & Scoops. This is what an ice cream place should be like — friendly, young staff preparing treats inside a small takeout shack in a lovely New England town.
I’m a huge fan of the fluffernutter offering, combining marshmallow with peanut butter. It’s addictive and I cannot wait to go back now that the weather is getting warmer.