Ample Hills Creamery has been named No. 1 for ice cream in Zagat's just published 2012/13 guide.

The annual dark red guide, which rates eateries through thousands of customer surveys, gave the Vanderbilt Avenue made-from-scratch ice cream shop a 28 out of 30 for food, a 22 for display and a 23 for service.

With the rating, the one-year-old shop unseats Coolhaus Ice Cream, which received a 26 in food, 20 in decor and 24 in service in the 2011/12 guide.

Zagat called the ice cream "divine," the flavors "unexpected and salted crack caramel "addictive." They also noted the shop's welcoming, kid-friendly atmosphere, calling it a "gem of a neighborhood hangout."

The cheerful ice cream parlor has been a even before it opened due to owner Brian Smith's instead of using a pre-pasturized "dairy mix." 

But Smith, who  with wife Jackie Cuscuna, said the Zagat rating is special.

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"it's a huge, customer-rated survey, not just a single editor making a decision," he said.

He added that he's particularly honored to get the No. 1 spot his very first time in the guide.

"To leap to No. 1, considering it's our first year in business is extremely exciting."

Meanwhile, more news on : The shop will be somewhere in Brooklyn, but Smith has not found a spot yet. Plans are to make the production area much larger, which would allow the shop to explore expanding into wholesale.

The larger productiona area will also allow Smith to offer ice cream-making classes, he said.

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