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the bent spoon

nationally recognized & award winning farm to spoon ice cream shop! since 2004 we've been crafting seasonal flavors using local & organic ingredients! thanks!
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open for walk up customers for scoops, shakes, floats, banana whips (limited!) & more! we’re more active on IG & hours on our website are up to date.

05/24/2026

☔️🐅☀️☔️🇺🇸memorial day and princeton reunions weekend continues! ☀️☔️🐅☔️🇺🇸☀️
and no matter the weather, the Class of 2026 at Princeton is graduating & the senior class officers collaborated with the class to concoct a special “CLASS of 2026 GRADUATION FLAVOR’ (that’s what it’s called!)
✨Their final flavor has a little bit of everything and a whole lot of heart!
it’s a BROWN BUTTER VANILLA BEAN ICE CREAM swirled with spoon-made sea salt caramel, organic Newman O’s cookies & naturally colored orange sprinkles! So festive!
Available only for scooped starting today at open until it runs out.
🧡🎓CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2026!🎓🧡
Join them and us!
12-9 SUNDAY
12-5🇺🇸 memorial day MONDAY
12-5 graduation day TUESDAY

05/23/2026

🍋✨💜LEMON LILAC!!!
SUPER DUPER EPHEMERAL MICRO BATCH!
oo la la!! we were able to grab this year’s fragrant and beautiful lilac flowers (from matt’s bush!) just after it was too hot (then too cold), but after it was really hot enough to remind the flowers to bloom! And, if you want to get technical, also just before all this rain. WHEW! Are we all the luckiest people or what?
🍋just like years past with fresh squeezed lemon and a bit of butterfly pea flowers as well for color - this TOTALLY RARE ice cream will be in the case until it’s not! No pints available, but if you’re nearby and there’s still some left, consider yourself invited to taste what drinking a nice cool lemonade (while your sniffing around a lilac bush) tastes like! ✨
☔️SOME NOTES: even though it’s raining, these are all still happening!
🐅Princeton University’s “Reunions” is in FULL EFFECT! WELCOME BACK TIGERS!!!
🎓P-rade at 2PM (so fun to see the classes and their outfits parade down Nassau!)
AND AND!
🇺🇸the SPIRIT of PRINCETON Memorial Day parade is starting at Nassau/Princeton Avenue down to Memorial Hall at 10AM today & the festivities continue at Monument Hall ! Saturday, May 23th! 🎺🎷🪗🥁
Open 12-10 SAT
12-9 SUN
🇺🇸12-5 MONDAY, Memorial Day (Class Day)
🧡12-5 Tuesday (Princeton University Graduation)

#🇺🇸 #🐅 (to remember)

05/22/2026

🐅🐯WELCOME BACK TIGERS FOR REUNIONS 2026 & joy to anyone else who happens upon Princeton and gets to see some of the best class outfits around!! It’s the bee’s knees to see customers old and new enjoying ice cream and our wonderful university town...THANK YOU FOR VISITING! 🐅🐯

✨I don’t really want to even tell you all the flavors we’ll be having in all weekend because WHO KNOWS how long they will last? We’ll have so many old favorites and lots of super RARE and special ones all weekend long.
🚨PRO TIP:THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS TO SUPER-DUPER EMBRACE THE SYNCHRONICITY OF LIFE!! (what flavors will be there and which two will choose YOU!?? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?)

✨but because I want to tell you a little, here’s a sneak peek of just SOME of what’s on deck this weekend: we’ve been hand-pressing so much espresso (thank you, ...yum, tiramisu!), hulling pounds and pounds and pounds of NJ strawberries (love you ), chopping also pounds and pounds and pounds of organic rhubarb (!), hand-plucking delicate little flowers (ohhh! lemon lilac!), and specialty whirling up locally milled matcha and houjicha (thank you, .co !) just never a dull moment for your friends over at the spoon.✨

✨Anyway, all the glee to welcome back all of our dear university loves and here’s hoping for a safe and gorgeously balanced weekend right through graduations next week!🎓🎓🐅🐯🎓

05/14/2026

🚨RARE ALRET! LIMITED EDITION!🚨
🐝🍯HONEY-LAVENDER 🐝🍯ice cream made with own honey!
✨To celebrate their 45th anniversary, Isles gave us some of their OWN honey to make two versions of a special ice cream! Isles honey with local and organic lavender AND that same ice cream with fair trade chocolate bits swirled in (you have to love chocolate bits swirled in....it’s just DELICIOUS).
✨check out their website to see if tickets are still available for thier Spring Gala which will include their special ice cream TONIGHT, May 14th! You can otherwise taste it in the store starting at open today until it runs out!
Thank you for 45 years of incredible work in our community!

From Isles:
Our mission is to help people build not just solutions to today’s challenges, but pathways to lasting change
Founded in 1981, Isles, Inc. is a community development organization based in Trenton, New Jersey. We believe everyone deserves a healthy community where they can grow and thrive. Our mission is to create the environment necessary for individuals and families to build and enjoy healthy, sustainable lives. We design and develop interconnected services that work together toward this goal, and we share what we learn with others who can make a difference.

05/12/2026

🐅🐯ORANGE TIGER COOKIES AND CREAM!🐯🐅.
A special creamsicle-esque cookies and cream (with organic Newman O’s cookies and organic orange) to celebrate Princeton Alumni Association’s TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY!
✨HOLY MOLY, 200!✨
🧡🖤This wonderful organization has 100,000+ members found in 155 countries and in all 50 states, & it helps to organize Princeton’s most nostalgic and community-connecting event, Princeton Reunions!🧡🖤 We’re happy to partner with them to offer this Alumni special flavor all month long!
🐅🐯WELCOME BACK TIGERS!🐅🐯
🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡

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05/10/2026

🌙🌟✨
ALL THE FLOWERY & MOTHERLY,
CARETAKING & NURTURING,
INTUITIVE & LIFE-Y flavors to start this foggy day! 🌙🌟✨

especially:
💖💐 ”basket-of-rose-hibiscus-and-other-local-and-organic-edible-flowers-under-a-lemon-tree” ice cream! (fresh squeezed lemon & organic edible flower ice cream with flowers!)

💜💐”viola chip” (with local blue moon acre’s organic purply-blue violets!) & swirled w/ fair-trade chocolate bits!

🌹“pink rose” and VEGAN “pink rose”!

💜“lavender mascarpone” with local and organic lavender! (spicebush farm)

🌙to name just a few!🌙

🍦We’ve got all of all of these for scooped and packed in pints at the start of the day... perfect for walking around town or bringing home for a flowery kind of eating!
🧁🍪And, of course, we are all booked out for orders today, but we made extra cookies, extra cupcakes & packed extra pints!
🎁PRO GIFTING TIP: grab an adorable pint cooler (keeps 1 pint frozen/ready to eat for quite a long time!) & fill it will one of our limited edition flower-infused pints!!!
🎁EXTRA PRO TIP: fill the pint cooler with a “pint” gift card for your special someone to choose their own later! - !!!

💕Here’s to all the loving and maternal figures in your life and the ones who are with you in all their glorious spirit wherever they are ... WE ARE THANKFUL FOR YOU! 💕

💕open 12-9

05/04/2026

✨MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!

⭐️CARBONITE CHIP!⭐️

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a charcoal-colored mascarpone ice cream with 64% chocolate chunks!!
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(you’ll love it, “I KNOW”! 🙄 oh.....iconic love scenes!) 
💕we won’t tell you the odds, but it’s here scooped from the case & in super-limited 1/2 pints until it’s not!💕

✨“eat, you must.” ✨
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04/01/2026

‼️ RARE ALERT!‼️

💙the ”NOT-AT-ALL-KOSHER-SO-DELICIOUS CHAROSET ICE CREAM!💙

✨the wildly popular Charoset ice cream is back with organic apples, organic pears, cinnamon, organic raisins, candied pecans and red WINE starting TODAY!!

✨for scooped & in pints til it’s not! as usual sorry no savesies!

✨we also have vanilla with matza toffee & a bunch of easter flavors : 🥕carrot “cake”, 🥜peanut butter with milk chocolate bits, vegan vanilla with peanut butter chunks, toasted 🥥🥥coconut bit & MORE!

’CHAIM! # carrotcake

03/28/2026

👓
📸: Our wonderful neighbor 👓WARBY PARKER 👓 (Palmer Square) now has a new sibling in Princeton Marketfair! It is opening today, so we are bringing back our special collaboration!
🥨🍫🔹Warby’s team loves chocolate-covered pretzels in their ice cream and their brand color is blue. WE ALSO LOVE CHOCOLATE-COVERED PRETZELS IN ICE CREAM and we got extremely lucky AGAIN to find NATURALLY COLORED BLUE SPRINKLES in just the right tone of blue!
Hence the return of: WARBY PARKER’S SPRINKLED SPECTACLE! 🔹🍫🥨
✨If you make a purchase at their store this weekend you get a voucher for our one-size cup to use here at the spoon through April 4th. You can use it to taste and enjoy Warby’s special flavor or any flavor you’d like! The special collaboration flavor will be around starting today (for as long as it lasts) for anyone to order…yum!✨

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03/26/2026

PLAY BALL!⚾️
🏟️IN honor of opening day of baseball season we are bringing back the LIMITED EDITION flavor that reminds us of one of our favorite philly lunchbox treats growing up - the TASTYKAKE!

⚾️“GO PHILS!” WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR A GAME!!!!❤️⚾️❤️

✨Woo!
✨Phillies!!

**Remember! this ice cream takes our own spoon-made “kandykake”-inspired cake….from the version of the tastykake we both loved best (ours is: yellow cake with a layer of the most peanuttiest PB *NATURAL!!* and covered in fair-trade milk chocolate) all chopped up & swirled into PEANUT BUTTER ICE CREAM, OHHHHHHHH YUM!

⚾️❤️.
available in pints too until it’s gone!
as usual, sorry no savesies!
do da do doot da do.......C H A R G E!

Address

35 Palmer Square W
Princeton, NJ
08542

Opening Hours

Monday	1pm - 5pm
Tuesday	1pm - 5pm
Wednesday	1pm - 8pm
Thursday	1pm - 8pm
Friday	12pm - 10pm
Saturday	12pm - 10pm
Sunday	12pm - 8pm

Website

http://www.thebentspoon.com/

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