There are two ice cream parlor's in downtown Bar Harbor that rank neck and neck for title of best ice cream, Den & Bill's Chocolate Emporium located at the intersection of Main and Cottage Street (look for the large wooden lobster by the front door) where you will always find large crowds of people waiting to get ice cream, and Mount Desert Island (MDI) Ice Cream located across from the Bar Harbor Village green (look for sign with hand holding a spoon), this is where Obama went for ice cream while on vacation here.
I can not recommend C J's Big Dipper, also located across from the Village green, because of a bad experience with a milk shake there one day. The girl operating the machine clearly was new at the job and I ended up with a cup of liquid milk and the owner refused to do anything about it. Bad service equals bad press.
