Jordan's Ice Creamery sits at 894 Laconia Rd in Belmont, New Hampshire — right in the heart of the Lakes Region. The spot operates seasonally, open each ice cream season from 2:30 PM on weekdays and from 11:30 AM on weekends. Out front you'll find picnic tables in the seating area and a few benches tucked into the grass to the left of the parking lot, making it a natural stop for families, groups of friends, and anyone cruising through on a summer afternoon. Indoor seating is limited, so most visitors settle in outside — or, as one regular put it, just sit on their car.
The anchor of the menu is the hard ice cream lineup: small-batch flavors made in-house and rotated periodically so there's nearly always something new to try. The Peanut Butter with Peanut Butter Cups is exactly what it sounds like — dense peanut butter ice cream loaded with peanut butter cups throughout. The Coffee and Donuts flavor layers coffee ice cream with chocolate donut pieces baked right in. Apple Pie arrives tasting like apple crisp blanketed in vanilla ice cream. These aren't concept flavors — they're specific, recognizable, and exactly what the name promises.
Butter Crunch is the flavor that comes up again and again across reviews, season after season. Mocha Chip — coffee and chocolate chip in one scoop — draws its own loyal following, and Brownie Cheesecake appears on the special menu when available, reliably pulling people back for another visit. Mint Chip rounds out the signature hard-serve roster, while Black Raspberry is offered in both hard and soft-serve formats. When fall arrives, the menu shifts to include Pumpkin, Eggnog, and Apple Pie seasonal flavors, as well as a Maple soft serve that comes and goes with the season.
Soft serve runs as a full alternative to hard ice cream and shares the same reputation for smooth, dense, creamy texture with very little air in the mix — a point guests bring up repeatedly. The homemade waffle cones are made fresh in-house and carry their own fan base. Multiple reviewers specifically single them out as worth the extra cost. Sundaes round out the menu: build your own with toppings and sauces. One standout combination mentioned across reviews is the Butter Crunch sundae with butterscotch sauce and walnuts.
Portions at Jordan's run generous. A regular-sized hard ice cream comes in under $4 and, by multiple accounts, is large enough for two people to share. The average per-person spend lands around $6.00. Those numbers show up in reviews not as a surprise, but as something regulars count on and mention when bringing out-of-town visitors for the first time.
The people who come to Jordan's span a wide range: families stopping in for a dessert run, solo visitors picking up a single scoop on the way home, groups heading over after a NASCAR race at the nearby track, and longtime regulars who have been making the trip since childhood. One reviewer described it simply as 'THE summer staple' — a visit pattern that repeats year after year. Guests who have moved away or who only pass through the Lakes Region during vacation still plan their visits around Jordan's being open.
Jordan's is open Monday through Friday from 2:30 to 8:00 PM, and Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM during the season. You can reach the shop at (603) 267-1900. Whether it's your first visit or your fiftieth, the menu, the portions, and the price point are the same as they've always been.