Meet Clem, Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery‘s new ice cream truck. It won’t be blaring music and making neighborhood stops, but owner Tamara Keefe will park the refabbed 1984 postal truck at events around town. Clem made its debut at Strange Folk Festival last weekend, and it will post up at Grove Fest this Saturday, Oct. 1.
Why take on a truck? “Because we needed one,” Keefe said. “People were calling and asking, and we wanted to participate in events like Food Truck Friday.”
While the truck won’t be out for daily lunch rushes around town, Keefe said it can be rented out for holiday parties, corporate events and weddings. Clem has already attended a birthday party and bat mitzvah. “We can do anything out of the truck,” Keefe said from a scoop of honey-whiskey ice cream to a whole sundae bar.
This isn’t Keefe’s only Clementine’s project in the works; she’s still pushing ahead with her plans to open a second location of the boutique ice cream shop at 4715 Macklind Ave. She opened her first location in Lafayette Square in May 2015.
This article appears in September 2016.