JP Licks

JP Licks is an ice cream maker in Boston that was founded in 1981 by Vincent Petryk and Michael Herbert. It started out with one location in Jamaica Plain, and there are nine locations in the Greater Boston Area. Its name is taken from its original location. The cow paintings are done by Kim Goldstein. Each month there are several special ice cream, hard yogurt, sorbet, and lactose free, and no sugar added flavors. JP Licks is also a coffee roasting company and roasts all coffee and espresso beans in the flagship Jamaica Plain location. All ice creams, yogurts, cakes and hot fudge are also homemade in the Jamaica Plain location.
Recognition
In April 2009, JP Licks won the "Best of Boston" Reader Award for best Ice-Cream Parlor, and was featured in the April Issue of the newspaper.
Locations
*Jamaica Plain: The first shop was near the corner of Centre Street and Boylston Street, where Acapulco now stands, but in the early 1990s it moved to the corner of Centre and Seaverns Ave, where Purple Cactus is now. Around 2000 it moved across the street to its current, much larger location, which used to be occupied by Bruegger's Bagels.
*Coolidge Corner: This is the second location of J.P. Licks. It was opened in 1988, on Coolidge Corner in Brookline, Massachusetts.
*Newbury Street: The third store, opened in 1993 in the Back Bay section of Boston.
*Newton Centre: The fourth location, opened in 1997.
*West Roxbury: The fifth store, opened in 2001.
*Davis Square and Arlington Center: The sixth current and seventh original locations, opened in 2003. The stores were formerly Denise's Ice Cream Shops. The Arlington Center store has since been closed and reopened as a Chilly Cow.
*Mission Hill: The seventh location, opened in 2005.
*Harvard Square: The eighth location, located on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It opened in 2008.
*Legacy Place: The ninth location in Dedham, Massachusetts, which opened in early 2010.

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