Taggarts Ice Cream Parlor

Ah, Taggarts. It’s been so long! Where have I been?
Oh, that’s right, I live 370 miles SE and am only here about 4x per year. Well, we’ve got to remedy that b/​c your banana split is AMAZING. I mean, I ate ONE. ALL. BY. MYSELF.
Yes, I know I’m a terrible human being. I’ll be back, soon. I promise. Muah!

The wife and I shared the kitchen sink! Wonderful and worth every penny. The amount of nuts alone probably cost more than our entire dish. Great local place and the locals inside make it even better. Great place for families or a first date.

If you are in canton and want great ice cream you have got to try taggarts. Their ice cream is the best around. Great place to stop and have a quick meal and desert. The diner has a hometown feel to it, along with great service and wonderful management. If your coming into town or live here it is an icon of canton, oh. They also have another location in magnolia and it is a great small town to visit.

Taggarts has been a local favorite since 1926! The food is excellent, service and ice cream outstanding. The BITTNER is why we come here. If your visiting or a local, it is hard to beat this place.

A Canton staple… Great place to go in the summer for a burger, fries and a Bitner. Don’t know what a Bitner is? Go there and order one and I guarantee you will have another. Service is decent, prices are good, and the food is like that old school ice cream shop. Good atmosphere and long waits.

Pecan lovers this is the place for the very best ice cream in Canton. The Bittner is chocolate shake with pecans is so thick it has to be eaten with a spoon. The large turtle sundae is so gigantic it can easily be shared by two people. Tons of pecans and a whopping four big scoops make up this decadent frozen delight.
Casual, family oriented, old style ice cream parlor with old wooden booths. Menu includes sandwiches in addition to ice cream.

Olé classic place love the atmosphere brings me back. Would rate 5 star but years ago had the kitchen sink with my bro and dad we all got sick still enjoy going every blue moon or so. I enjoy it the prices are fair the service is good. Went there after high school graduation had a good time. Stop in and enjoy their good selection of burgers or ice creams! Overall good place to go keep it up guys!

Best ice cream in town! Homemade and hand dipped, visiting Taggarts is the epitome of supporting local business. I was lucky enough to grow up just a few streets away I rode my bike there as a child, worked at Taggarts through high school and college and get to take my nieces and nephews there now. Fresh ingredients, locally owned and in a wonderful neighborhood with so much history– a canton staple for anyone visiting!

Truly the best ice cream in Canton is served at Taggarts. Some reviewers didn’t like their bittners. If you heed those reviews just order some of the other 90 choices on the menu.
Old fashioned ice cream parlor in every way — atmosphere, furnishings, boys at the counter. Visit for ice cream if you don’t like fried diner food but always. always try the ice cream while in town.
Close to downtown and about halfway between there and the Hall of Fame. Quiet, tree-​lined residential street on the corner of Fulton and 14^th Street.
I was challenged by a soda jerk to finish one of their Kitchen Sink servings and he would pay for it. It was almost impossible but I forced the last few spoonsful just so he would have to pay for it. Order a Kitchen Sink and see if you can beat me!

The good: the ice cream
The bad: about everything else
We ate here twice in the last six months and both times were the same — unorganized, dysfunctional seating (basically people just come in and decide themselves who is next to get a table) and really poor service. Both times we waited over 15 minutes just to get the check! The food is awful, fried food or overcooked burgers are the options.
Just go here and get ice cream to go. You will be satisfied. Sit down and eat and you will be disappointed.

The magnolia location doesn’t have a page so I will review here. The bittner is basically a glorified Wendy’s frosty with salted pecans. Could easily be recreated for a buck. The ice cream in the bittner is the consistency of a milkshake and turns into being chocolate with the syrup mixed. The description on the menu doesn’t really match it in reality (makes it sound like its vanilla ice cream drizzled with chocolate syrup not completely blended). It’s good but not that great. I suppose when you’re spoiled by Graeter’s and Jeni’s, it’s hard to hold a match to their flame.

Ice cream: AMAZING! Very very generous with the toppings. If you get a pecan special sundae you get a lovely mound of salted roasted pecans on top. I never order desserts with nuts in them, I generally hate nuts in my desserts but this blew me away! Takes sweet and salty to the next level.
Food: kind of lacking in the food department (lunch/​dinner items) aside from some key menu items. Their sandwiches are very small with scant toppings. But the Taggarts Salad sandwich is different from the other sandwiches, it is a generous size, yummy and fun to eat! Also their fried sides are good with the homemade peppercorn dipping sauce.
Overall GREAT for ice cream and snacks, open late and very family friendly. Not my first choice for a sit down dinner however we live a block away so it is very convenient to get a bite to eat when I am feeling lazy about making dinner… Which is often now that we have a baby!

Totally great. We enjoyed some ice cream treats and fried cauliflower. My husband had a lime phosphate he’d never had one and loved it. Next time we are in Canton, we will eat a full lunch here.

Im from Chicago, so going to Taggerts was like a trip back in time. Old fashioned ice cream parlor, with a good dining menu. Food was excellent, and the server was so patient answering all our questions.
Oh, and we had a bitner. I wish I could have taken 10 of them to go… absolutely amazing. Some of the best ice cream Ive ever had (and trust me, Ive had a lot of ice cream)

There are not enough good things that I can say about Taggart’s! This has become a staple for my husband and I because it is dangerously close to where we live. It is cute, quaint, and still has that ‘mom and pop’ soda shop kind of feel that so many places try to have, but just don’t achieve.
I can’t speak to the food, but I can speak to the ice cream. We always split the brownie hot fudge sundae with cookies ‘n cream ice cream instead of vanilla. It is always overflowing with hot fudge, the brownie is warm and gooey, and it is just sinfully delicious. We’ll be moving from Canton, soon, and will definitely miss this place when we are gone! It’s great year round, but especially fun in the summer.

Classic Ice Cream and café like experience without any pretension just pure 50’s/60’s style food with good ice cream including their classic, Bittner.

Iconic, family, owned and a classic… YES! Venture outside of their ice cream, desserts, and shakes and everything else just seems average.
Had their ‘Wimpy” burger for five bucks. It looked like a 6 oz. patty that tasted just average. A few slices of cheese, some pickles and an fairly dry patty.
Also ordered the Mozzarella sticks for about six bucks. Four skinny little sticks with some bland marinara.
I guess all the rave reviews about this place is the nostalgic feel and great ice cream and shakes.
I saw them hand scoop ice cream into the shakes which impressed me. The chocolate Malt I had was great and my friends enjoy their hot dog and flounder (i think) sandwich.
Good feeling place, but it didn’t impress me. 3.5 for overall which includes the value, diner style food, and atmosphere.

One of my favorites in town. Locally owned and operated by a former factory worker and his wife. They’ve done a great job preserving the old ice cream parlor’s ambiance while still delivering excellent service and food. Great place for a date!

When I was little, my mom used to take us here after the last day of school every year for ice cream as a celebration. Man, it’s been a long time, but this place is just as delicious, and amazing.
First off, the phosphates. I got a raspberry phosphate and it was SO GOOD. You would think living in Atlanta I could find stuff like this easily, but this is the only place I can think of that still carries phosphates.
Secondly, being a vegetarian, I am no stranger to veggie burgers, but their veggie burger is hands down one of the best I’ve had in memory. A lot of people don’t seem to know what to put in a veggie burger to keep it from falling apart. I’ve had faaaar too many veggie burgers that are tasty but fall apart because they seem to forget that you need some sort of binding ingredient. This is not the case here — no incident of crumbling burger that makes a mess all over the place. Hallelujah!
Last but certainly not least, the ice cream. Oh, the ice cream. It is so incredibly delicious words cannot describe. After a veggie burger and fries I knew I couldn’t handle much, but I had a mini-​bittner. The combination of the freshly roasted salty pecans with the delicious sweet and smooth vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce is pure heaven.
My boyfriend got a strawberry malt shake out of curiosity, as apparently they don’t have malt shakes in France. He ordered a large, and they are not kidding about the sizes here. He couldn’t believe how huge it was. He ended up having to take the rest to go, as we were in a bit of a time crunch.
It’s so nice when a place that holds as much nostalgia as Taggart’s does for me truly stands up to the test of time. Now bittners are haunting my dreams in the most delicious of ways.

I like local places like this one, which has been around since the 1920s. Taggarts has a nice vintage ice cream parlor vibe, so it was a fun stop.
We’d eaten earlier at Kennedy’s BBQ (now owned by the same people who own Taggarts), so we just stopped by dessert.
Several locals told us the Bittner was the must-​have dessert here. The Bittner, with its homemade ice cream with chocolate sauce mixed into it and a generous layer of salty pecans atop it all, was definitely worth the stop.