Photo by David Carson (Post-Dispatch)
Clementine's Naughty & Nice Creamery
Since 2016, the STL 100 has celebrated the high-butterfat, low-overrun (translation: as decadent as can be) ice cream at Tamara Keefe’s Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery as the best in St. Louis. So if you love ice cream and haven’t made a pilgrimage to the original Lafayette Square location or its larger outpost in Clayton’s DeMun neighborhood, I question whether you actually even like, let alone love, ice cream. For the rest of us, the joy is returning to see which flavors Keefe has rotated onto the menu. Some recent favorites of mine have included rugelach (pieces of the eponymous pastry, made here with walnuts and raisins, folded into apricot ice cream) and, from the Naughty menu, the Tequila Chocolate Mole, rich and boozy with a pleasant lingering chile burn.
Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday
Last year's ranking: Rest of the Best
Opened: 2015