This holiday season, Gabriella Grant-Spangler and Ben Spangler will open the first suburban outpost of their ice cream empire. Born in Uptown during the pandemic, Bebe Zito started as a creative scoop shop offering small-batch, handcrafted flavors such as Cereal Killer and Thai Tea. Cooking burgers out of a trailer in the back parking lot, they soon expanded to a counter in Malcolm Yards Market, with an expanded hot and cold menu. Just last year the duo co-founded Eat Street Crossing food hall, where they launched separate ice cream and burger counters, adding a Brazilian pizza outpost known as Ouro. The newest location in the Woodbury Lakes development will be their biggest stand-alone yet, adding private event space and a lounge offering wine and beer.

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