For anyone still in denial that summer in Boston is really, definitely, we're-not-even-joking completely totally over, there is this: Ariel's Ice Cream & Smoothies in Quincy's Marina Bay, having opened this past April, has now closed indefinitely. After several signs appeared announcing a temporary closure, the ice cream shop, as reported by Boston Restaurant Talk, posted on Facebook: "Due to unfortunate circumstances, Ariel's will be closed until further notice."
A later post hinted at a possible reopening this week, but an update yesterday indicated that the shop "remain[s] closed indefinitely" because of "unresolved contract issues." The six-month-old shop offers ice cream from Boston Ice Cream Factory, which is owned by Steve Cirame, who bought a former J.P Licks in Inman Square in 1984, turned it into Christina's, and sold it in 1993.
