Vanilla Bean
Classic vanilla ice cream made with premium Ugandan vanilla beans.
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Small-batch scoops made by hand by a former schoolteacher with a wildly good imagination. Come down and find your people.
Small-batch, made by hand, with no artificial flavors or colors. The classics are here all the time — the rest rotate, so don’t get too attached.
Classic vanilla ice cream made with premium Ugandan vanilla beans.
Silky chocolate ice cream that tastes like the best chocolate milk you've ever had.
Oreo ice cream with Oreo and chocolate chip cookie crumbles.
Our take on a southern classic — the caramel nuttiness of brown butter and glazed pecan bits.
Extra creamy, super nostalgic orange ice cream with a swirl of our vanilla bean.
Blue cotton candy ice cream with clouds of marshmallow ice cream and sprinkles.
Sweet cream ice cream with a bright, natural sweetness from honey.
Mint ice cream with fine, crunchy dark chocolate freckled throughout.
Exotic and tropical sorbet that's so creamy you won't believe it's dairy free.
An oat milk ice cream that's half chocolate, half peanut butter, and all dairy-free goodness.
A collaboration with the Gaston Community Foundation — brown sugar vanilla ice cream loaded with cookie dough and swirled with rich salty caramel.
Creamy and smooth cold brew coffee ice cream with just the right amount of pure vanilla (and no caffeine).
Cranberry, orange, and grape juice sorbet with splashes of pomegranate and all-natural ginger ale.
An Italian classic made with our double chocolate swirled into pistachio and cherry ice creams.
Fall-spiced pumpkin ice cream swirled with rich cheesecake ice cream and Biscoff cookie crumbles.
Cranberry and apple cider sorbet spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg.
All ice creams are churned in house and may come in contact with common allergens, such as eggs, wheat, soybeans, tree nuts or peanuts. If you have any allergy concerns, please alert your scooper.
Downstairs started where the best ideas do — a little out of nowhere. Before the shop on Main Ave, it was a farmers-market trailer called Screaming Cold Treats, complete with a yeti who took the cold very personally.
These days it's run by a former schoolteacher, which is exactly why it feels the way it does: intentional, a little silly, and dialed up to recess energy. Every batch is made by hand, in small numbers, with the kind of care that used to go into a really good lesson plan.
Polished, never childish. Whimsical, never cheap. A Sunday-after-church scoop with a third-grade imagination — that's the whole idea.
“Life is Cooler! Downstairs”
We're right on East Main Ave in downtown Gastonia — look for the dripping cone and the cream lattice in the window.
111 E Main Ave
Gastonia, NC 28052
| Sunday | 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM |
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| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Wednesday | 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Thursday | 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Friday | 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Saturday | 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
Free street parking right out front on Main Ave, plus the public lot a block over.
Life is Cooler! Downstairs