Ronnybrook Farm Dairy

Closed? New York’s richest milk, the fat police strike again.

Though the Chelsea location is under renovation, this is truly one of my favorite NYC delights! The drinkable yogurt is over the top! Not ever too sweet, it tastes like yogurt should. Was so excited to find it at a little café while I await the reopening of the Market location. The butter and ice creams are also worth the effort and calories

I used to date a guy named Ronny. They Ronnybrooke my heart, dumped me, and opened this place.
I have mixed feelings about the world famous milkshake which I sampled. I probably shouldn’t have got the coffee flavor because it was very very very very NYC.
In other words, it was bitter and extremely Starbucks-​tasting. It was like having an Espresso in shake form. That bothered me, because I don’t like that kind of coffee.
However, I feel like if you do, you will love this shake, and it’s no surprise that a lot of people do. On the other hand, I have major complaints about the size of the shake (it’s tinier than a very embarrassing man’s pee pee) and the price (it’s in Chelsea Market, which means like everything else in Chelsea Market, it’s heinously overpriced).
If you like strong coffee, then by all means try this shake. It’s very different to any other I’ve ever had.
I’d like to try another shake, such as the chocolate… or some ice cream… but at this insane price and with these tiny portions, I’m not sure when I will.
And I never thought I’d be into boys, but Cristiano Ronaldo changed all that. Certainly, Ronny-​broke me in.

Delicious ice cream you cannot miss and this is coming from a dairyland girl! Blueberry is my favorite ice cream flavor and I was pleasantly surprised to see they featured it as a staple flavor. Yummy!

Creamy, all natural, homemade ice cream. It does not get beyter than this! Expect a line but the wait its worth it. I always get a 2 scoops of one of chocolate and coffee ice cream.

Love this place!
The ice cream is old fashioned and made on a farm. It is super rich, creamy, and delicious! You can really taste the milk and the cream and one scoop is more than enough. I like the typical flavors — chocolate and vanilla, probably one of the best I’ve had. The staff is always friendly, and the store is always clean. They serve food in the back which I want to try one day but I always seem to forget about it since the menu is not well advertised.
I recommend this place to all ice cream lovers!

Another nice find inside Chelsea Market.
Delicious, creamy ice cream. You can tell the quality of the ingredients (including the heavy, rich cream) they use in their ice cream.
Again, the ice cream is very rich. If you really want to make the most use out of Chelsea Market (by eating it, in its entirety), I recommend you share a couple of scoops with someone whose saliva you could tolerate =D

I love ittttttt!!!
I came to eat Thai food in Chelsea market and I found this place. I have a thing for milk ice cream so I was excited to try after the Thai food (which was horrible)
I’ve been looking for a good milk soft serve/​milk ice cream place in New York and all I could find on Unilocal was momofuku milk bar. I tried there but didn’t like it since their milk soft serve didn’t taste like milk. But this «Simply Milk» ice cream ($ 4) was really good!!! Rich milk taste ice cream. Yes simply milk. That’s exactly what I needed.
I ordered it in a cone which is good but next time I’ll order it in a cup because I’m so in love with this ice cream and I just wanna focus on this delicious simply milk ice cream.
This place doesn’t come up even if I search «ice cream» on yep. Too bad lots of people might be missing out this place.

Chelsea Market can quickly become overwhelming, and my husband and I darted into the Ronnybrook Farm Dairy for a little peace and quiet. We were attracted by the classic, old timey vibe and made the excellent decision to order the chocolate milk. Wow! It was rich and creamy and one of the best chocolate milks that I have ever had. Next time, we need to try the ice cream!

I was really craving both ice cream and cookies. I was hoping this place would satisfy my craving, but it just made me want more. The ice cream sandwiches are enormous, as it should be since it costs $ 9. Get the two cookies n’ cream ice cream! It is a mixture of both Oreo and Biscoff. All cookies n’ cream flavors should be made with Biscoff.
They let me choose a both peanut butter and chocolate chip cookie. Chocolate chip was delicious. Huge, buttery with lots of chips. It doesn’t have a soft, gooey texture, but I think it’s much easier to eat with a harder texture. I don’t want my cookie melting along with the ice cream. The peanut butter cookie was just okay. It’s more crumbly and unmemorable. I would get both chocolate chip.
I tried their passion fruit ice cream too, but I think milky passion fruit tastes weird. I prefer passion fruit sorbet over ice cream. Their monster ice cream sandwiches are expensive, but definitely coming back to try more ice cream flavors at the very least.

1 Star for the Ambience, love the old carton boxes all over the wall
1 Star for delicious shakes
1 Star for Farm to People concept
1 Star for the best milk chocolate I ever had and the awesome bottle (forgive me for not returning the bottle, but next time I buy another one, I will return that one)
Minus 1 Star for slow service, for a place not too overly crowded service should not be this slow. It took approximately 10 minutes for a milk shake, when I order there was no one in front of me, nor anyone else waiting for an order. Seriously, a little faster please.

The ice cream is amazing and the service is as well… But if you want to have your mind blown try the chocolate milk. TRUST ME. This isn’t your standard chocolate milk… This is «oh my goodness my life is now changed forever» chocolate milk.
Seriously… It’s that good.

Really deliciously creamy Strawberry ice cream. I got a single scoop for $ 4. When I went, there were only the standard classic flavors (like cookies and cream etc.) and I kind of wish there was something more interesting because I was travelling from SF and wanted a NY ice cream spot to slap me in the face and scream that NY was better than SF ice cream. I didn’t quite get that experience here, but I still think it was great quality ice cream.

Great tasting ice cream. I got two scoops (butter pecan and cookies n cream) for $ 6. It’s a little pricey, yes, but expected from ice cream places like this.

Milk Ice cream. MILK ICE CREAM!!! DO IT!!!
Seriously though — best ice cream I have ever had the pleasure of eating. It was just spectacular. SO simple, but it just was everything I could ever want from ice cream.

Unilocaleople, let me tell you a story.
This has been a crappy week. Suffice it to say that a myriad of little things have colluded to create one large steaming heap of excrement. And when that happens, I turn to comfort food. My go-​to comfort food tends to be breakfast sandwiches, such that I will eat dubious food cart baconeggandcheese sandwiches rather than eat lunch when I’m in the dumps.
I’ve gone to Ronnybrook now & then over the last few years, but it wasn’t until I started working within walking distance of Chelsea Market that I discovered their breakfast sandwich. It’s a pretty great breakfast sandwich; the things that make it are the decent pimento cheese spread, eggs that are still slightly runny at the yolk but solid enough to get a good bite of yolk along with the rest, and bacon that rescues the egg white for me. (Not the biggest fan of egg whites.) As far as Chelsea-​area lunches go, it’s a good one for me– $ 7 gets you this reasonably-​sized delicious sandwich & a pile of nicely spiced potatoes. I’ve gotten it at all hours of the day, wading through the hellish mire that is Chelsea Market tourist flocks standing stock-​still in the hallway as if expecting traffic to revolve around (or walk straight through) them, in order to soothe my grumpy self.
So today, with a pretty solid b-​face on & the thought of bacon and pimento fixed in my head, I made a beeline through the market. I was glad to see that business was hopping at Ronnybrook, because it’s gotten a little emptier over the last couple of years and I’ve been a little worried that they’ll get lost in the turnover of Chelsea Market places. I was less glad to see that their awesome basil honey ice cream has been switched out in favor of a seasonal bread pudding ice cream, but at least it ain’t pumpkin spice BS. I was even less glad as the rush meant that my sandwich took about 20 minutes to come, but okay, the lunch rush is still good for them.
Sandwich acquired, I got back to my office & took off the top of the sandwich (it’s a bit too much bread per bite for me) and was hit with a stark reality: oh. oh great. Overdone egg. Whatever, the cook’s in a rush, don’t really mind a well-​done egg, but the real problem? NO BACON. Of all days & of all the sandwiches I’ve ever gotten from this place. F— it. I will haul my butt back to Chelsea Market if that’s what it takes because today, my soul requires bacon, and my sh– week means that every little injury that goes wrong seems to sting THAT much more. Well aware that I was being very melodramatic, I duly hauled myself back to Tourist Central.
And the staff, which are usually polite but pretty noncommittal, were absolute stars. Sensing my high dudgeon, though I didn’t raise a fuss and merely said «hey, my sandwich is missing the bacon» (though the b-​face was probably still in full effect), they swept my topless sandwich (I rushed out of the office without replacing the bun) back to the slow kitchen. While I was sulking, one of them cheerfully offered me some ice cream, and by the time the sandwich returned (with a new top, even, and extra bacon) the wind was out of my sails and I was feeling goodwill toward mankind again. And as I sit here typing this and eating the sandwich, even today being September 11 doesn’t feels as depressing.
…Long-​winded & theatrical story aside, Ronnybrook is a great little local NY staple that should always have a place in Manhattan for us overworked plebes in the city, and I’m glad it’s still here. The ice cream is solid, the milk is great, and the sandwich is also decent. I’ll dock a star for the fluctuating ice cream flavors & speed of the service (and inconsistency of kitchen; not the first time eggs have been overdone or potatoes have been a bit raw), because even when they’re almost empty around 3 pm and I’m much more level-​headed, they’re a bit slow on the sandwiches, but it happens. Aside from the missing basil, I also recommend their «white» chocolate roasted cocoa nib ice cream, which tastes like a richer version of the brewed chocolate from Mast Brothers, and doesn’t taste as cloying as regular chocolate ice cream does to me. Their cookies are also good.
Keep on keeping on, guys.

4.8 stars!
Excellent and delightful ice cream. I had the vanilla and sour cherry poppyseed. Super fresh and creamy texture. The waffle cone was super crunchy and delicious too! Goes very well with the fragrant vanilla.
I sampled the honey basil too which was a bit too out there for me but very impressed overall.

Basil ice cream is so refreshing
The milk comes in old school jars that just always makes it taste better
They have variety of cool flavours
Value: $ 4 for one scoop but was able to split the scoop with basil and ginger, so yummy ⁴⁄₅
Amenities: located in Chelsea market ⁵⁄₅
Service: friendly ⁵⁄₅
Quality: very high quality dairy ⁴⁄₅

Vacations are meant for indulgence, and I am sure most of you have done the same. But what about the tummy aches that follow? After a very indulgent lunch in Chelsea Market (lobster, chowder, bisque, osyters, grilled cheese) My tummy was screaming for help.
I purchased a yogurt drink from Ronnybrook and it was not only delicious, but seemed to help my stomach with its probiotics and whatever else goodness. I would have got icecream… but maybe next time. This happy yogurt drink helped me for the rest of the day and kept me from running to the bathroom while in NYC. For that, I am forever grateful!!!

I love Chelsea market. All that good food and so many cool things to buy… what’s not to love? The BFF and I stopped here for a late breakfast. Our server was funny and very attentive. We got croissant sandwiches with a side of fried potatoes. The food was delicious and not too heavy. My over medium eggs were cooked perfectly. I also tried my first egg cream here. Delicious! Loved every sip.

I slipped in here for a quick lunch, mostly because it had seats and i’d been on my feet all morning.
The sandwich I had was quite tasty and filling; I couldn’t finish it, yet also well priced.
Being a dairy, it’s more about the milk. Between lactose intolerance and diabetes I skipped having a milkshake or ice cream, but they looked delicious, and they sell their own brand of milk too, if you’re looking for some milk to take home. Straight from the dairy!

I love everything there is about Ronnybrook Farm. I visited the actual farm upstate in April 2012, and it completely changed my perspective on how awesome they are. They are even better then you could imagine.
Creamline unhomogenized milk. In some states this is completely unavailable, therefore if you are here, it is a must try.
The milk here is the freshest you can get in the area. This little gem inside Chelsea Market is cozy, cute spot. Amazing old world classic dairy milk feel. I love it.