Asheville – Hilltop Ice Cream Shop has opened a new store at 235 Weaverville Road in Woodfin. They have been serving their homemade ice cream at 520 Old US 74 in Fairview since 2010.
Owner Spencer Hilgeman purchased the business from Barbara Borgersen in 2021. He had worked at the Village Hotel on the Biltmore Estate as an executive chef for five years and as a sous chef for five years before that.
He became familiar with the ice cream because the Village served it. “She was a wholesaler, and I got to know her, and I loved her ice cream,” he recalled. “I talked with her a couple of times about expanding the business, but she wasn’t interested.” Then, in 2021, it was Borgersen who approached Hilgeman; she was ready to retire…