Icream Cafe

Definitely catered more towards kids, but still neat to see and try as an adult. Lots of different varieties and possibilities. What I like about the mixins is they actually mix it in. It’s not just thrown on top like Braum’s. I opted for the white chocolate with almonds and my wife got vanilla with cookie dough. The show isn’t really a show. It just happens to be a piece of glass so you can watch them make it. Definitely agree the employees are high school kids who really don’t care, but they do a decent job.
My white chocolate with almonds was pretty good. Didn’t have a very strong white chocolate flavor, but you could still taste it. Not Haagen-​Dazs quality, but it’s not meant to be. The consistency reminded me of Crisco, which kind of grossed me out. My wife enjoyed her vanilla with cookie dough as well. Her only comment was that the ice cream is very very cold.

Awesome ice cream! This is such a cool concept. Ice cream has a lot of flavor and many flavor to choose from!

This place is so fun! Our kids loved watching them make their own custom ice cream.
The employees are young and customers service is about what you’d expect from that «first job» age group. Give them a break guys; they are still learning about customer service.
I’m excited to see that you can completely customize your ice cream which is fantastic if you have food allergies. First you select if you want ice cream, shake, hot pudding (I know, right? Yum, on a super cold day), or yogurt.
If you choose ice cream, then you select if you want milk, soy milk, coconut milk, or almond milk for the base. Next, you choose your sweetener like sugar, Splenda, agave, stevia, sweet and low, etc. Then you pick the flavor like, toasted marshmallow, pumpkin, chocolate, strawberry, etc. Finally you choose your mix-​ins (candies, fruits, cookies, etc).
After you have finished ordering and paid then you can watch your ice cream being made which is the fun part!
It may not rival Amy’s Ice Cream in Austin or Ben and Jerry’s. But if you have a group of friends, or children, with multiple variations of dietary restrictions and complications (which happens as we get older) this place is a dream and truly has something for everyone. :) Well done! Also, my kids LOVED it.
One last thing! They made everything correctly which was impressive considering all of the options.

We were dying to check this place out after reading the wonderful reviews on Unilocal.
Disappointed would be an understatement.
Service:
To start out, there were young high school kids working there. No sense of customer service to begin with. We waited at the counter for a couple of minutes before one of the guys broke away from their socializing huddle to help out.
Experience:
Secondly, we were hoping for an experience. Did it happen? –Negative.
I got the cake icecream –small. He took my order. I saw some gas/​steam at one of those icecream maker machines and they called us to the counter to get our icecream.
I think the concept and selling piece of this business is to make it an experience for the customer.
Quality:
The icecream it self tasted chalky. If you are used to blue bell, this icecream will leave you disappointed. My sister got the pistachio sugar free. Just FYI– they will allow you to choose your alt. sugar base. My sister choose sweet and low. She could literally taste the sweet and low in her icecream and it over took the pistachio flavor of the icecream.
Verdict:
I will probably stick to Dairy Queen, Baskin Robbins or one of the more common icecream joints.

So good. Kids love it. Pumpkin pie ice cream is soon good. Hedi the owner makes the ice cream herself.

The ice cream was good but the service was awful. We had questions about the toppings and sizes and every time we attempted to ask the two girls behind the counter would barely answer and then look at each other as if they were annoyed that they had to do something for work. It was not a pleasant time and in the end it was not worth it. The sizes were not worth what they were charging either.

UNREAL!!! If you haven’t been, Drop what you are doing and head there NOW!!! Such a cool place how the make the icecream with Nitrogen! Comes out mixed great. Very fresh, and taste amazing! CHECK IT OUT!

The concept is cool but the ice cream is rather tasteless. My Inner fat child didn’t get the warm fuzzies. It’s a cool place to take small children but other than that… Wait for Blue Bell to return.

I was so excited to try this place because of the cool concept! I got the vanilla bean mixed with cake and it was delicious! The texture threw me off at first, but after a couple bites I was sold! 4 stars because it is a bit pricey and it costs extra (almost a dollar) to add toppings? Not cool. Other than that, no complaints! So awesome watching them make the ice cream!

This place has been on my list to try for a while, but I’m generally not in the area. We were heading to Frisco, so decided to give it a try. If you don’t know, the premise is that the ice cream is made right in front of you using liquid nitrogen! You can pick your milk, flavors and mix-​ins. I tried the toasted marshmallow ice cream with graham cracker crust and chocolate chip mix-​ins, hoping for a s’mores type flavor. The bf tried a shake with vanilla bean ice cream and butterfinger mix-​in. There was about a 5 minute wait for the ice cream to come out because people were in front of us, but I didn’t find it to be inconvenient. I also didn’t find the price that off from a place like Cold Stone or Marble Slab.
My ice cream was amazing! It was super cold (watch out for ice cream headache!) and creamy, and had a toasted flavor just like s’mores made at a campfire! My bf did not like his shake, so I tried it. He was right, the vanilla bean ice cream tasted really watered down and did not have much flavor, as if a bunch of ice had been added and mixed in. Also, the shake was served in a styrofoam cup with a straw and a spoon, but was the same consistency as my ice cream and could not have made it through a straw unless you let it sit to melt for a long time. But all in all, I loved the ice cream and experience and will be back!

The WOW factor is there as the smoke from the liquid nitrogen swirls around your creation. The ice cream is delish, but for $ 5 for a small PBOMG, it’s definitely special occassion place for me!

Pros: Great concept and when they’re on their game the finished product is fantastic.
Cons: Very expensive. Only reason that’s an issue is they are rarely consistent with the finished product when they are busy. Also it takes FOREVER to get your ice cream. They always seem to be understaffed. Once again not an issue unless the product isn’t consistent and very expensive.
We like this place a lot but there is a ton of room for operational improvement. I’ve been sitting here 20 minutes waiting for two small cups of ice cream as I type this.

DELICIOUS! Perfect with for someone who has food allergies you can spy, rice, almond, or regular milk ice cream… add the favors and toppings and «Nitrogen» and your ice cream is frozen just for you!

I went here with a friend one night after work.
I had the cinnamon ice cream with coconut and chocolate chip mix-​ins. The «show» of watching your ice cream being prepared is interesting, but for $ 0.50 EACH mix in (for a small, $ 1.00 each mix in for larger sizes) it can get expensive.
The ice cream is good, but not as creamy as I thought. The flavor was delightful and the staff are quiet. They take your order, make it, and that’s that.

Very cool concept for ice cream. We were in the area and stopped by. Have a billion combinations of flavors you can get. They also have puddings, shakes and a few other things. Really neat to watch them make it in front of you. Ice cream was delicious.

I looooved the ice cream I got here. I didn’t love the price, but I find it hard to give anything but a good review to a place that will mix nutella and cookie dough into toasted marshmallow flavored ice cream. Just let that sink in.
So you can choose what type of base you want (fro yo, regular ice cream, sorbet, etc. etc.), then choose the ice cream flavor and whatever mix-​ins you want. They charge for every mix-​in you get (no «first one free» here), so try not to get too excited. The flavor combination I ordered (see above) was amazing. Honestly, as expensive as it was, I would definitely get that again.
Speaking of expensive, a small is $ 3.99 (yikes!) but is a decent size serving, so unless you’re planning on eating ice cream for dinner, the small is plenty. I don’t even remember the cost of each mix-​in, but for 3 small ice creams it cost around $ 16.
I was wrangling a 2 year old so I didn’t get to watch the «show,» but I imagine it would be pretty cool to watch your ice cream freeze before your eyes.
Great place to take the kids for a special treat once in a while. I’ll be back.

This place is worth the drive, just for the show. You can custom mix your choice of milk, flavors and mix ins. The options are endless.
The service is great and the ice cream is light and creamy. I held back to four stars due to the fact that I prefer more intense flavor.
All in all it is a great ice cream shop.

This place is great! Yes you are paying for the experience and the options, but it’s well worth it! You can get any kind of base (dairy and non dairy), a wealth of flavors, plus you can decide on making it a sorbet, froyo, or ice cream. Then they use liquid nitrogen to freeze it before your eyes! It captivated all my little nieces and my nephew. My only advice would be to have a kids size, as the small was a little too much for the youngest
Two of my crew. Next time I’ll have them split a small. Awesome place!

There are only four locations open: Kuwait, Dubai, Chicago & Dallas (Frisco) so my curiosity was piqued. This is a great place to bring the kiddos for a treat. I ventured in with my niece and nephew in an effort to remain on the «Cool» Squad. I don’t think I lost points.
«1. Choose ice cream, yogurt, sorbet, a shake, or hot pudding (with or without rice)
2. Select your dessert base: regular, light, organic, soy, regular or non-​fat yogurt
3. Pick one or two flavors and fruit or candy mix-​ins from our toppings section»
A small was $ 3.99 and the equivalent of about 2.5−3 scoops. There are over 25 flavors to choose from I believe — from curry and green tea to pistachio and hazelnut. The toppings are plentiful too — from raspberries and gum balls to cookie dough and granola. Toppings are an additional ballpark .50 additional I believe. After you’ve done your bidding, you can watch as they prepare your treat — complete with a full on view of the liquid nitrogen «smoke» spilling down for the kids to wave their hands in. They loved it. In no time flat your dish is ready and handed to you at the end of the counter for you to enjoy.
My niece’s creation: white chocolate & vanilla with gummy bears & jelly beans
My nephew: vanilla with oreos & snickers (I think)
My creation: vanilla and toasted marshmallow with pecans
Pricey, but all in all, good. They also do birthday parties.

So I read about the opening of this place in the paper and saw my friends post some pictures of the new ice cream shop that had just opened in town.
Great location and easy to find. We’re big fans of ice cream, but we are not ice cream mixologists so we opted to order from the recommended photos from their wall. We had the apple pie and the mango /​strawberry/​lemon with coconut flakes and bananas as toppings. Watching them make the ice cream using nitrogen is cool in itself. Everyone seemed to be amazed by it. I even tried to take a photo and record them making it but I suppose I’m still technologically challenged. :(
Anyway, it didn’t take too long for them to make our frozen treats, there was a bit of a hold up because of the sudden rush of patrons, but service was pretty speedy.
Now to the actually taste of the frozen concoctions… I’m giving it 2 stars (womp, womp). Mine didn’t even look like the photo… It looked like strawberry lemonade with specks of coconut flakes in it (See my photo I uploaded) and it tasted like a watered-​down strawberry lemonade. No trace of mango (my favorite fruit) in it whatsoever. My friend did not like his apple pie ice cream either. He actually wanted to trade for mine because he disliked his so much. It also had this odd color — like a funky green. We were not impressed and were starting to think maybe our other friends were right– Nobody does ice cream better than Blue bell.
Overall watching them make it is cool (5 stars), but that’s the only 5 stars this place deserves. For over $ 10 (the cost of both of our ice creams), we could’ve gotten 2 half gallons of Blue bell ice cream from market street and would have been much more satisfied. There are also a lot of other frozen treat places in town that is much, much cheaper than this place and tastier (Bahamas Bucks, Sno-​Cone Lady, TC Sno, etc). I say, if you’re here for the experience come and check it out, but if your an avid lover of ice cream or frozen treats, skip it because you’ll be sorely disappointed.