Behind the scoop: Two Roosters ice cream is among best in the country

What started out in a turquoise blue ice cream truck has since grown into a multiple brick-and-mortar ice cream juggernaut.

Posted 10:00 a.m. Apr 19 — Updated 10:00 a.m. Apr 19

Kathy Hanrahan

, WRAL lifesytle editor

RALEIGH, N.C. — What started out in a turquoise blue ice cream truck has since grown into a multiple location ice cream juggernaut.

The reigning (and four-time) WRAL Voters' Choice Award winner for best ice cream, Two Roosters is gearing up for a hot summer filled with cool treats. In April, the shop is featuring flavors created and submitted by local children. Flavors include "Lincoln's Chocolate Potato Chip," which was dreamed up by a second grade student. It features a vanilla base with chocolate covered potato chips and caramel sauce.

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Two Roosters started with an ice cream truck parked at The Cookery in Durham in 2014. Its first brick-and-mortar location followed in north Raleigh at the Greystone Village Shopping Center.

In 2018, the shop opened a pop-up location at Person Street Plaza in downtown Raleigh. That location at 215 E. Franklin St. was so popular it became permanent.

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In 2020, Two Roosters expanded again – opening a third location in the Golden Belt Campus in Durham across from Hi-Wire Brewing. A fourth location followed the next year at 4025 Lake Boone Trail in Raleigh.

The shop's most recent location opened in Wake Forest last year in The Factory shopping area off of South Main Street.

The ice cream shop is also serving at PNC Arena in Raleigh. You can find them in sections 116 and 110.

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Two Roosters is known for its 10 "forever flavors" and a unique rotating list of monthly guest collaborations.

"The menu is very strategic," Plummer said in 2019 on the Out and About Podcast. "Using the food truck experience, there were a lot of flavors that I was able to vet during those years. Naturally, there's a few that popped up that were really popular, so going into the brick-and-mortar arena, I knew there were the regular flavors that were tried and true. People loved them and knew us for those flavors."

In 2019 and 2023, the shop was named one of America's best ice cream parlors by USA Today.

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