Thorndike Creamery in Rockland - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Great place! Friendly - and funky - staff. They've always been awesome with my children. Pizza is some of the best in the area and the ice cream is good too.

The pizza totally blew away my expextations....and I live in NYC where pizza is a big deal. Very inexpensive.

The new owners are kicking up the pizza several notches and it was really good under previous management. I can honestly say, as a foodie and a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, wow, the special pizzas are out of this world. The flavors and care in preparation are more what you would expect as an appetizer at a world class restaurant or cocktail party but not over pretentious. The dough is made from scratch and the toppings are fantastic. For example, this evening it was a pizza with thinly sliced potato under the cheese (which was much more flavorful than the typical cheap mozzarella) along with minced kale and topped with luxurious caramelized onion. The other is perfectly roasted eggplant with roasted red pepper and thin sliced sausage. It was fantastic before the new management but now it is worth driving distances for.

Mostly Giffords so nothing special here. A single scoop was on the small side.

Great ice cream and inexpensive too. They serve many flavors of Gifford's ice cream and have a few home made flavors as well. If you like to people watch, sit by the window and enjoy your ice cream/food.

Go to Thorndike's Facebook page to see the who story, but in a nutshell, they not only have great food and delicious Gifford's ice cream (most especially the toasted coconut--my favorite and the only place that serves it around here) they are also very special, kind people who came to the rescue for a bunch of high school students. They are the kind of business you want to support.