Both geeks and gourmands can enjoy their downtime at one of the multiple restaurants, the ice cream bar or the wine tasting lounge.

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Then backstroke back to the Plaza Garden Restaurant at the inn to use your included discount for dinner, followed by dessert at the ice cream bar.

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The idea is that consumers will be able to zoom into an ad and unveil a new world that boasts a game, user-generated videos and a freezer filled with different kinds of the ice cream bar.

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That's followed by Chili's pepperoni pizza meal with homestyle fries and chocolate milk, which packs 1, 120 calories, and Dairy Queen's fried chicken strip meal with fries, a slushy drink and an ice cream bar, with 1, 030 calories.

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The winner of my informal poll on where to get the best ice cream was nearly unanimously Juice Bar (12 Broad Street, 508-228-5799), a small corner shop in Nantucket town that deservedly has a line snaking out its door and around the corner during high season.

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Fiodor shows us his favourite statues before taking a break from the Milanese evening heat at Bar Chocolat - a gelateria boasting over ten different types of chocolate ice cream.

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Onsite cafes and seafood bars are open all hours for a late-night snack between purchases stop for a bite at the Deep Seafood Cafe and Oyster Bar, located between Poulos Bros Seafood and All Seas Wholesale, before having dessert at Scoop Ice-Cream and Coffee.

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