Sebastian’s Homemade Ice Cream and Sorbets

I am confused. Does this place exist? I thought it was just an old tyme sign on the Café on the Common window that didn’t actually mean anything. I’ve been to Café on the Common (which is fantastic) at least 50 times and I have never seen actual ice cream.

This is a top-​notch homemade ice cream place. The consistency is thick with good cream flavor. The flavorings are mild and subtle. My mango ice cream really let the layers of flavor of mango show through.

I really wish this place was more of a *real* ice cream shop. The fact that the ice cream counter is never staffed (you have to get the coffee shop workers on the other side of the wall to assist you), is Big Clue #1 that something is awry.
Big Clue #2 that they’re not a *real* ice cream shop: I think their ice cream has been sitting around in those freezer chests for a long, long time. My scoop of pumpkin very well might have been left over from last year (it was both chewy and crunchy), and the consistency of my chocolate chip scoop was not much better. Plus, it literally (and I mean literally) only had two chocolate chips in it. Two! In an entire scoop!
The last time I had ice cream here (probably a year ago), the quality was fine. Perhaps it’s the same batch – just a year later? Who knows.
Big Clue #3: Coffee shops and ice cream shops really are catering to different clientele – who’d like to patronize said businesses at different hours. Who ever heard of an ice cream shop that closed at 6pm?
I really, really, really wanted to fall madly in love with Sebastian’s when this place first opened nearly two years ago. I totally envisioned myself hunkered in at one of their tables, a bowl of artisinal ice cream laid out in front of me while penning my very own heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Oh well…
I’m not going to blame Sebastian for my writer’s drought, but I do take his name in vain each and every time I find myself succumbing to Friendly’s. Grrr.

I love LOVE love their coffee chip and strawberry ice creams! Their flavors are so good I haven’t ever needed toppings :)

Extension of Café on the Common. Phenomenal Non-​fat Strawberry Yogurt!!! I had it in a cone with two scoops for $ 3.75 and had to pay next door at Café on the Common since the register wasn’t working which wasn’t a problem since the two spaces are connected and I was going over to the other side to enjoy some free wifi anyway. Actually, I’m sitting in Café on the Common right now and the ac is crisp and cold and the jazz music music is filtering in at just the right volume. Great new place and looks closed from the outside (due to the dark tint) but is a beautiful space of dark wicker chairs and granite tables with local art featured on the birch paneled walls.
All the ice cream is churned out by hand and homemade. They use fresh fruit (and offer more fresh fruit toppings than Lizzy’s albeit less dry toppings like KitKats, Oreos, coconut, etc.).