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Sunday’s Scoops & Treats now open in Concord

A new ice cream shop now open in downtown Concord is inviting you to indulge your inner child, with treats that are infused with all kinds of sugary cereals, as well as dozens of candies, cookies, fruits and drizzles.

Sunday’s Scoops & Treats opened June 5 on North Main Street, but according to Sarah Thayer, who runs the shop with her partner, Cole Glaude, its concept has been roughly a year and a half in the making. The couple was inspired after visiting another ice cream shop that infuses sugary cereals in New York City, where they lived for about a year.

“We just thought it was a really cool concept that was different,” Thayer said. “You don’t really think about putting cereal in your ice cream, but … the flavors come together so well.”

Shortly after they moved to Concord late last year, Thayer said, she and Glaude ended up finding their current spot while on a walk and realized it was perfect for them.

The menu at Sunday’s is simple. Customers choose either vanilla or chocolate ice cream for their base (dairy-free vanilla and chocolate ice creams are also available), and also whether their ice cream is blended in a cup, on a cone or as a milkshake.

Then you choose your mix-ins and a drizzle — two mix-ins and one drizzle are included in the cost, and each additional topping is 50 cents more. Cereals include everything from Cap’n Crunch and Lucky Charms to Froot Loops, Fruity Pebbles and Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

But even if you’d rather skip the cereal, you can completely customize your ice cream infusion with brownie bites, chocolate chips, Reese’s peanut butter cups, Kit Kat candies, crushed Oreo cookies, toasted marshmallows and more. Thayer said there are more than 40 toppings available, yielding hundreds of possible flavor combinations.

There are three self-cleaning machines in the shop — one of which is dedicated solely to dairy-free ice creams — that mix your ingredients together in seconds. While hard ice cream is used, Thayer said the machines change it into a soft-serve consistency.

Thayer and Glaude also created a menu of specialty swirls called “Hometown Heroes,” all of which are based on flavor combinations the couple has experimented with at home. One such option, called “The Wifey,” features vanilla ice cream blended with cookie dough, brownie bites and Cheerios.

“Cole and I were creating the business plan, and I told him a couple of things I wanted in the ice cream. He ended up putting it all together in a blender, and it was the best ice cream I’ve ever had, hands down,” Thayer said. “That was how ‘The Wifey’ came to fruition.”
Sunday’s has about 30 seats inside, with an additional 16 out on Main Street during nice weather. Part of the shop’s opening preparations included the addition of a cereal box wall that customers can take pictures in front of and share on social media.

The shop also has its own mascot — a cartoon ice cream character named “Sunny.”

“Cole actually works as a graphic designer, and he designed Sunny,” Thayer said. “He’s just a happy-go-lucky character that wants to bring joy to people. We just thought that it would be cute to have, especially where we may have more of a kid-friendly culture here.”

Sunday’s Scoops & Treats
Where: 138 N. Main St., Concord
Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1 to 9 p.m. (hours may be subject to change)
More info: Visit sundaysscoops.com, find them on Facebook and Instagram @sundaysscoops or call 333-2111

Feautred photo: Sunday Brunch. Courtesy photo.

Flight Coffee Co. introduces new flagship location in Bedford

When Claudia Barrett of Bedford started Flight Coffee Co. 12 years ago, she had a small commercial coffee roaster in her home garage. Since then, her company has expanded — now offering everything from specialty coffees and espresso drinks to bagels and pastries — and has experienced recognition at the national level, winning multiple coffee competition awards and being featured in the coffee industry trade magazine Roast several times.

Now, Barrett and her team are expanding even further, on track to open a new flagship space for Flight Coffee Co. on June 17 that will include a bakery, cafe and roasting facility all under one roof. The space takes up a portion of the former Harvest Market store on the corner of Wallace Road and Route 101 in Bedford, which closed last year.

Barrett, who launched a coffee roastery across town on Harvey Road in 2013, eventually turned an adjacent space into what she called a “satellite cafe.” Her last day at that location was May 29.

In 2016, prior to expanding her Bedford roastery, she also operated a cafe in Dover under the Flight Coffee Co. name for a short time before selling it to new local owners.

“Harvey Road was a great place to start because it was out of the way and we were really focused on roasting,” Barrett said. “We did outgrow it in many ways … and in my heart I knew it was time to bring a community coffeehouse to Bedford, just like I did in Dover.”

Flight Coffee Co.’s single-origin coffees are sourced from all over the Coffee Belt, and the new space will include a view into the roasting area. Opportunities will also be available for tasting “flights” of different coffees and learning about their variations and origins, in an environment not unlike how you might experience flights of beer or wine.

Last year Flight Coffee Co. introduced fresh baked bagels, cake doughnuts and stuffed pastries called “stuffies” that Barrett said have been hugely popular. All of those will be available out of the new space in a wide array of flavors, along with vegan and gluten-free doughnuts and some new savory items like bagel sandwiches and creative toasts.

“We’ve won a lot of people over with the doughnuts, which I never expected to happen,” she said. “I was so focused on coffee, but it’s a really great thing to pair with coffee, and it’s been a lot of fun because it’s kept people very excited through the pandemic.”

Other plans include coffee roasting classes and demonstrations, open mic nights, poetry slams, trivia and game nights, book clubs and other community events and gatherings.

“It’s going to be a very fun and engaging place,” Barrett said. “Coffee is a stairway to heaven. It’s our passion and something we want to share.”

Flight Coffee Co.
An opening date of June 17 is expected. Visit their website or follow them on social media for updates.
Where: 209 Route 101, Bedford
Anticipated hours: Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (hours may be subject to change)
More info: Visit flightcoffeeco.com, find them on Facebook and Instagram or call 836-6228

Feautred photo: The Residence at Salem Woods. Courtesy photo.