Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen

Stopped in for a piece of pie, and I disagree with John G — there is such a thing as bad pie.
The pies looked pretty in the case. I opted for the dutch apple. When I got to the table and took a bite I realized the crust was stringy dough that had not been cooked. And the topping covering it was just ok. If I am going to waste the calories on a piece of pie, it better be a good one.
My consensus with this place and I seem to be in the minority here, is that they do too many things and too many flavors. I would rather see a business have less options but really execute on what they do have. For me, this place is a miss.

In the area for the annual Cherokee Triangle art fair and ice cream sounded heavenly. Back in the day, before kids, my husband and I used to visit Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen a lot. Ice cream and frozen yogurt didn’t have as big of a presence then so this was a popular hangout.
The four of us got ice cream cones — cookie dough, chocolate chip and superman. Not one bite went uneaten. Saying that, I didn’t leave thinking «how soon can we get back?» My chocolate chip was semi-​flavorful and tasted more like cheaper ice milk than ice cream.
If you aren’t big on ice cream (or wasn’t wild about what you got), you will find other offerings here, including pie, cookies, milkshakes, cakes, cupcakes, brownies, etc.
I’m also a little surprised to see that very little has changed with the shop and it’s décor. It makes it feel old and outdated, rather than familiar and comfortable. Poorly painted concrete tables outside (no umbrellas) and wooden benches and tables inside. Nothing very bright, unique or fun inside. Maybe I’m jaded after visiting so many other local ice cream shops? Even so, this place needs to kick it up a notch if they want to stay first in the hearts of Louisville.

All I can say, it was the best. I will recommend anyone coming to Louisville to try.

Oh my goodness. Yum!
Had the Oreo ice cream which was nice and creamy. It could have stood to have more Oreo pieces in it.
My pie was the star here. I had the caramel apple pie. It was like eating a caramel apple in pie form. Sooooo good.
This is a great little dessert stop. They let you sample the ice cream before you buy it. They pie is just awesome. The people were fairly friendly.

Doesn’t get much better than this.
The service is excellent. We had no idea what we wanted when we went in there but the staff was very patient with our indecisiveness. (I used to work at a Baskin Robbins many years ago and people who hem and haw can drive you crazy. Especially when they are in line in front of a bunch of hungry people who know exactly what they want. That can get ugly!)
Everything looked very tempting. The place was clean and all of the products were displayed in an organized manner. (You’d be surprised at how many desert places don’t get that.)
I had the chocolate cheesecake. It was creamy and flavorful. It had that «tang» that you only get with cheesecake. There was some chocolate syrup drizzled on top. It was enough to add a pleasant flavor without overwhelming everything. Ditto for the mini-​chips sprinkled on top.
Would I go back? In a heartbeat!

Delicious rhubarb and strawberry pie. Same for the white cake with buttercream frosting. Cannot go there too often because my waste line cannot afford it.

We were looking for a desert stop and found this location. Excellent pies and ice cream! Very busy Saturday night — service was great and so was the food.

Great place to bring the kids. Their key lime pie is out of this world. Do be careful not to go when they are having dance classes above, though. It can get so noisy that you can’t have a conversation without raising your voice to be heard.
Seriously, though, key the key lime pie.

This is a perfect place to stop in quickly off the interstate, pick up a Pie (or Ice Cream) and head back on your way again. It’s close enough to 264 that you can pull this off pretty easily. Especially if you are transitioning from I-​71 to I-​65
They have a great selection that will likely leave you standing there for more than a moment trying to figure out what you want.

For a late lunch while in Louisville, our family stopped at Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen. While we liked the nice sandwich selection, ordering was confusing, as the gal in the deli area waved us over there to take our orders, rather than the person at the cash register. Our order consisted of a BLT, two bacon chicken ranch sandwiches, a Mediterranean salad, and a ham & Swiss sandwich. For dessert, we ordered five quick-​sale (aka discounted 30%) pieces of pie: pecan, chess, lemon, and chocolate chess. With five drinks and three bags of chips, our total bill was just under $ 50. Since we ordered at the deli, that also meant that we did not pay until after our food arrived (which with just one person working the deli line, it took some time), and I only paid then because I walked up to the register and asked if I could pay now as I was afraid I would otherwise forget.
We really liked the homey-​kitchen feel of the dining area, and our kids loved sitting on the swivel stools at the bar in front of the window. Once our food arrived (which again, took some time), everything was declared to be good, except for the bacon chicken ranch sandwiches, which were very good. We also felt that all of the pies were very good, with the chocolate chess and pecan being excellent.
While we liked both the food and the ambiance, the confusing setup for ordering and paying, as well as the long wait for our food detracted from our experience at the restaurant. Overall we rate Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen as being Good, and would return.

Can’t go wrong here, they have a huge selection of fresh, tasty pies as well as other baked goods and ice cream. The chocolate chess pie and peach pie both rock. I think they have other stuff too but have never even looked beyond the pies.

Whaaaaat! Pie, cake and ice cream. uhhh duh! Everything looked amazing and the customer service was great! I had the resees pie and the carrot cake. I’m very picky with carrot cake and there’s was ok, I would have preferred it a little bit chunkier.
I didn’t try any ice cream this time, next trip in! Also, gotta have the Dutch Apple with caramel glaze…

This is one of my favorite sweets shops I’ve been, definitely my favorite in the city. It’s almost overwhelming how many choices you have when you walk in, but there’s no way to pick a bad one. Their pies are wonderful– I love the strawberry rhubarb (the first one I tried here). The ice cream is good, too, especially along side a slice of cake or pie. The cakes all look good, although I’ve only had one (I enjoyed it thoroughly). Their chess pies are some of the best I’ve had.
Their customer service is great and everyone has served me with a smile. I was shocked when I came here one weekend and people were smoking hookah, but I suppose that’s something they do at this location.

This is not my favorite ice cream in town, but I love the variety of choices. They even have ice cream cake by the slice. I just recently had their chocolate cheesecake. At first I thought it was too rich, but after I got used to it, I would definitely get it again.

I was stopping in Louisville on my way back to Indy and they had an assortment of treats for my and my somewhat picky friends! I had the snicker doodle cookie and it was delicious. You can also tell that the ingredients are great and the pastries are amazing. My friend had a Carmel cupcake, also delicious, and we also had key lime pie. All and all we had a great experience and I would recommend this so anyone with a sweet tooth. There is a lot of variety and after the three desserts we tried all were a 10! Also the staff is very nice which is also a reason we stopped because we were indecisive and they were very patient!

Update: I went back and tried the Chocolate Chess pie! It was absolutely amazing! I couldn’t possibly decided between it and the Chocolate Chip Chess Pie. They are both absolutely perfect! The Chocolate Chess Pie has the consistency of a gelatinous brownie batter, but the rich flavor of pure melted chocolate.
I also had a scoop of Birthday Party because it had chunks of vanilla cake and lots of sprinkles! :)

These guys have it all. Great ice cream flavors and every pie ever invented! Mince? Yup. Rhubarb? Indeed. Italian Cream Cake? Of course…
If you are in Louisville, check this place out!

How anyone could patronize this business and write a positive review, I will never understand. I gave this place a second try, ordered a basic chocolate cake. My friend ordered a cheesecake and a second style of chocolate cake. All three were inedible. I realize the name suggests «homemade» and they insist no mixes are used. I would believe that, because these cakes are not even as good as store bought mixes! As for homemade, wow, very awful pastries. Being an excellent baker myself at home, making true homemade deserts, I’m able to discern problems here. Nothing in the cake tastes real. The frosting surely has no butter, the cake tastes like artificial crap. Sara Lee frozen cakes from the grocery offer better cheesecake. Cakes sit unrefrigerated on the counter, apparently because there just isn’t any butter involved here.
Certainly Louisville just doesn’t get it if this business expands to multiple locations if/​when customers patronize it. Cloyingly sweet (not good sweet either) crap doesn’t even qualify for the Southern culture excuse of accepting overly sweet stuff. What the hell is wrong with people!!! Can you taste this??? Maybe not… ZERO for THREE at $ 15 on my visit, that’s three strikes! Didn’t want to bother asking for a refund and wasting my time trying to explain why these «deserts» taste not only worse than store mixes, but are truly the worst excuses for cake I have ever tasted. Sickening at best, I felt ill for hours after trying a few bites just to be judicious.
ZERO STARS would be the most honest rating. AS for the tourists or natives here who rave on this place, I cannot imagine why other than for their ignorance. Nothing new there. Ice creams looked so nauseating I can’t imagine trying them either after such awful cakes.
YUK!!!

Delicious pie and ice cream. I got blueberry with butter pecan ice cream. It was so good i probable ate it withing 5 minutes. Lots blueberries and not too much goo (most of fruit pies i’ve tried have some fruit and lots cornstarch goo). The crust was excellent sprinkled with sugar and the filling itself was not overly sweet. I would highly recommend getting dessert from here instead of a restaurant, in fact skip dinner and get two slices of pie instead.

Whoooaa-​ly cow!!! I had thought that I had already reviewed this place because of how often I have been raving about it to random people!
This shop is out-​of-​this-​world fantastic. It is home to one of the items that makes the list of my Top 3 BEST THINGS I EVER ATE. Drum-​roll please… make way for their PECAN CHOCOLATE CHIP PIE!!! Without a doubt, the absolute best slice of pie of my life. While I was eating it, I could not focus on anything besides its utter deliciousness. I had honestly never tasted anything quite like it before and was astounded by how happily my taste-​buds danced around in response to each bite.
Prior to my consuming this divine concoction, I was so much more so a cake person. But those days are LONG gone! I have been converted into a true pie lover because of how absolutely fantastic Homemade’s Pecan Chocolate Chip Pie is. Whoever has yet to try this godly creation must immediately drive on over and order up a big ol’ slice of this sweet southern love ;)
But hold on there because my praise for this place surely does not end with that particular pie! Another magical piece of pie that we tried out was their Dutch Apple with caramel topping, which was ALMOST equally delicious to their Pecan masterpiece… to each his own!
Another smart choice we made in the shop was to box up one of their Snickers Cupcakes! Despite its monstrous size, it was absolutely devoured by my brother, so much so that I just barely was able to try some of it before it disappeared. So THAT was a huge hit too!
And I haven’t even gotten to their house-​made ICE CREAM!!! Soooo fantastic: the portions were oh so great and the ice cream itself was oh so flavorful, fresh, and ultra-​creamy. They had so many wonderful options to choose from too! After much deliberation, I went with the peace, love, & chocolate flavor :) that was quite phenomenal.
The fantastic-​ness of this cute shop extends to their service as well because each worker was SUPER attentive and very nice and friendly. love the accents :)haha. I’m such a northerner.
If I haven’t already conveyed this… I highly, highly, highly recommend Homemade Ice Cream and Pie Kitchen!!!
Oh how I wish I lived in Louisville, just so that I would have this exceptional place within reach… though that would be quite dangerous, as far as my waistline is concerned…
THEY SHIP!!! OMG-​OMG-​OMG