Bruster's Real Ice Cream

Bruster's features 150 flavors of handcrafted ice cream, Italian ice & sorbet. At least 24 are handcrafted daily to be enjoyed in fresh waffle cones and premium desserts.

Bruster's Real Ice Cream is an ice cream shop in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is listed at 4414 S 17th St, Wilmington, NC 28412, which places it among the local businesses of Wilmington that residents and visitors turn to when they need this kind of service close by. Besides its main category, the business also describes itself as cake shop, dessert restaurant, dessert shop, so it may cover more than the name suggests.

In Wilmington, the best-known bakeries and bagel shops have lines on weekend mornings, so arrive early or order ahead where the shop offers it. Across North Carolina, immigrant bakeries add Mexican pan dulce, Vietnamese banh mi bread, Chinese buns, Middle Eastern sweets and European rye to the mix, and many gluten-free and vegan bakeries have opened in larger cities. Check the listing for hours, whether the shop accepts custom cake orders and its Google rating before you go, and call about allergens, since small kitchens often share equipment. Day-old bread and end-of-day discounts are common if you ask.

The business lists hours on 7 days of the week. The most common schedule is 12–9 pm. As with most places, expect changes around holidays; the phone number below is the fastest way to confirm. The listed phone number is (910) 794-1222. Many businesses also reply to text messages on the same number if it is a cell phone. More information is available on its website, brusters.com.

On Google it holds a rating of 4.3 out of 5 from 592 reviews, which is a strong result for an ice cream shop in Wilmington and suggests consistent service.

Wilmington is in North Carolina, in the Southeast, where summers are long, hot and humid, winters are mild, and afternoon thunderstorms and the hurricane season from June to November can change plans at short notice. Traffic in Wilmington peaks on weekday mornings and afternoons, so allow extra time then. Addresses read from the street number up to the city, state abbreviation and five-digit ZIP code; the map link on this page shows the exact spot.

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