Rita’s Italian Ice

Place was clean and employee’s very nice. Love it because they have dairy free options. Bubblegum flavor awesome. Will be back.

Wife is from Texas and always talks to me about good custard ice cream. Big deal I thought …
Went to Rita’s, was tasting the Italian Ice and LOVED it. Then I tasted the custard … Game over.
We both bought a large cup and took home ice cream sandwiches also. I think about that place late at night.
Do not go if you cannot handle addiction.

No good for me, the ice you can tell is color artificially flavor, doesn’t taste like real fruit I it, and it levels tongue color so that’s how I know they used food coloring not real fruit, it tastes just like color ice with lots and lots of sugar in it, best one by far is joes Italian ice in anaheim, this Rita’s doesn’t not compare at all. Also the Custer no good too sweet and leaves and after taste, I won’t be back

Rita’s! I am so excited every time another one opens out here on the west coast. I’ve been a fan since my days out east. Their custard is just, amazing. Highly recommend. This is a pretty great location. More ice options than others and more custard options than others. I enjoy having options :) Seating outside which is a plus, however the seating is right by the entrance to the shopping center. Made it a little loud at times. Other than that, loved it as usual! Friendly staff that enjoy their job. Flavors change regularly, so be sure to come back and try more! Or at least take a pint of your favorite flavor home (we did!).

My very first time coming to Rita’s. I didn’t know it opened here. The staff is very friendly. Rita’s offer free small (mini?) ice for first day of spring. I sampled the custard which is very good. I chose passion fruit ice. It’s a big too sweet for me but it’s pretty good. Next time I will come back just for custard.

I wasn’t a believer. Ice with syrup? Ew.
That’s what I thought going into this place. But wow was I wrong.
Girlfriend had been talking about this ‘Italian ice’ place for awhile and we had a great chance to try it after stopping at the AAA across the street.
The custard’s flavor still haunts my tongue… I loved it.
Without a doubt I will be back for more Italian ice and custard!

Joe’s or Rita’s? Rita’s or Joe’s? It’s a battle for oc’s cure to summer time heat.
Both are great. Both have a variety of flavors. While Rita’s has a better flavor average across their offerings, Joe’s has some better singular standouts. ie bada bing cherry.
There isn’t one fruit flavored offering that I’ve had at Rita’s that isn’t good. And, they even have fun flavors such as cotton candy and Swedish fish that are standouts when available.
Now when comparing Italian ice lattes, Rita’s does a better job with their ratios of soft serve custard to Italian ice ratio while Joe’s has the creamier tasting soft serve.
Do yourself a favor, visit Joe’s at least once since its maybe a drive for you to Anaheim, sample some flavor tasting’s and order a large with 2 flavors. This will wet your appetite for this type of dessert. When you want more, visit a Rita’s near you since they have expanded to many locations recently.
Tip: if you want your Italian ice as a «slurpee/​icee», Rita’s can make those for you too.

First off, I was really confused about the whole Italian Ice with Ice Cream on top. I don’t know why, but for some reason I thought this was a gellato place only. But it’s not, they are really good at making the Italian Ice!!! That’s right, skip the gallato/​ice cream. Just get the plain Italian Ice. I had with Ice Cream and it wasn’t all that great. The Italian Ice will hit the spot and no need to weigh it down with the Ice Cream.

My usual place to go for Italian ice is at Joe’s Italian ice in Anaheim. I’m so glad for Unilocal as a help me find this place. This place is just as good as Joe’s Italian ice but much closer to my house. Will definitely be back.

Staff really needs to do a better job at explaining what ritas is and what to order. I hate going somewhere and the staff is not interested in the customer. That is how it is here SOMETIMES… enthusiasm is a must at a place that provides frozen novelties. I got the oreo cookies and cream ice and it was so sweet and gross and I’ll never recommend it. The first time I came here I got just the chocolate frozen custard and it is SO SO GOOD!!! it’s probably one of my most FAVORITE deserts of all times!!! That’s why I give them 4 stars is because of how yummy it is.

Joe’s is 10x BETTER than this place. There were limited amounts of flavored Italian ice, none of which I was fond of. They got high schoolers working here which is a big no no. It’s an ez job, how bad can your service be?
My friend ordered a regular gelati and I ordered mine after hers. Since I wasn’t asked what size and what type of way I wanted my Italian ice, I assumed he knew I wanted the same as my friend. Towards the end, he gave me just a plain Italian ice and charged me. Of course I told him I wanted gelati and not just a plain Italian ice. He then said «oh» and scraped off the top part of the ice, put it back inside the container and added some custard on top. FIRST OFF, a gelati is suppose to have custard at the bottom of the cup too. Am I right? He didn’t even fix the actual order. He just dolloped the custard on top. Like, that was so unsanitary and wrong! Never coming back.

Ice ice baby… just get the ‘ice’… it’s in the name!
Now that I finally stopped trying to all the mixtures and custard and random stuff … I finally realized it is about the ‘ice’… and I love their ice!
Go here for the ice and you won’t be disappointed. Very flavorful and great to eat on a warm summer day.
My favorites: watermelon, fruit punch, mango, Swedish fish, pear.
Yum.

There’s an app for it — Apple or Google. Go to
for Flavors, nutrition and more. Plus, there are several locations.
This place is SO yummy! Delicious! The ice with the frozen custard — OMG!
Gelati — There’s some Italian Ice — frozen custard — and topped with more Italian Ice. I got the Cotton Candy Ice, with vanilla custard, and that combo — mmmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmm!
The last time I went, I saw they have a Misto! I thought the Gelati was yummy, this one is the Gelati on delicious steroids! (If steroids were delicious). It’s just the Gelati blended. Instead of using a spoon — to make sure you have some of each (ice & custard), you just need a straw. Convenient for driving.
I can’t forget to mention the scrumptious custard cookies. Frozen custard in between two large Oreo Cookies. Wow! So wow!!!
I wish I could put taste into words, but nothing can describe it. Just GO TRY! It’ll be worth it!

A Whole Lotta Gelata!
Rich creamy custard and very soft ice mix together to format a Gelati. Vanilla custard and black cherry ice is an amazing treat but for me nothing can beat orange cream custard and cherry ice.
A very refreshing dessert that likely packs a whopping amount of calories has me skipping ice cream and running for my Rita’s App. So many check I no and you get a freebee. There is easy parking and most of the times I’m parked right in front. Lines are typically small but once in awhile they are long and can take 15 minutes or so.
The cakes are pretty good!
I am liking Rita’s and I am a fan!
Ritas, Anaheim Hills… another reason the OC is the best place to live!

Love this place!
I’m going to keep this short. I love the staff, the product and the hours. What I do hate are the high school kids and moms that want to taste every damn flavor and never buy! Other than that, I’m a Rita’s fan 100% The ice is smooth so don’t expect crunchy snow cone type of ice. I haven’t tried ALLLLLLL of the flavors but the ice’s I did try, are true to its flavor. Swedish fish flavor, seriously tastes like eating Swedish fish. Alex’s lemonade, Black cherry and Blueberry are my favorite ices. Sadly Blueberry is barely on the menu. I should call ahead to see when I can get my hands on that flavor! My mom is addicted to Black cherry, I buy her a quart and seriously it’s the best value, their quarts are reasonable and last a long time as well.
The custards are smooth and creamy. In the beginning, I only thought they had vanilla, chocolate and swirl as an option, one day I see strawberry and they had that all along WTF. I must’ve been blind that day. My favorite is vanilla custard because I can add toppings to it and make my own custom flavor. The coffee flavored custard is divine! I add it with vanilla and crushed waffle cone, the best! I’d like to see a green tea flavor one day.
I have yet to order a Blendini or a Gelati. I’m sure I will but I’m so stuck on the straightforward ice’s! I wish they sold the ice cream sandwiches separate instead of a pack of 5 :(Overall I love Rita’s and the location hits the spot. I don’t have to drive ALLLLLLLLLL the way to Joe’s or Frostbites. Yes they have more variety but Rita’s hits the spot in such a close distance!

I heard about Rita’s because it had opened up in AZ & all my close friends were always eating it but I never was really interested in trying it until I received coupons in the mail recently.
I used a buy 1 treat get 1 free coupon & ordered 2 gelati’s.
Gelati is their flavored italian ice in a cup with your choice of custard on top! They offer two sizes, regular & large. The regular size is more than enough for me because my gelati started getting a little too sweet for me half way through and my boyfriend felt the same.
Make sure to sample before ordering! They have a lot more italian ice flavors than they do with the custard. For the italian ice flavors, we tried pumpkin cheesecake, mango, chocolate chip & banana. I didnt really like the chocolate chip ice but my boyfriend liked it so he ordered that and paired it with vanilla custard. I was actually surprised that there were chocolate chips with the italian ice! I had a hard time choosing between banana and mango… but finally went with mango and vanilla custard.
Honestly, I don’t know why people love this place so much. I didn’t think it was that memorable or «OMG amazing!!» in any way. It was just average. I mean, don’t get me wrong, the italian ice was good and refreshing. The vanilla custard was extremely creamy and thick — my boyfriend compared it to McDonalds soft serve but way thicker and sweeter. The two together evens it out a bit so it is a good combo but my boyfriend and I should definitely just shared one gelati because once we both got half way to ours, we both didn’t want it anymore. Probably too much all at once so it’s kind of overwhelming. But other than that, yeah, nothing really stood out about this place. no cool flavors or anything.
This place is similar to Confetti but Confetti offers a wider variety of flavors. I also think their size portions are more reasonable unless you have an extreme sweet tooth. Therefore, I will stick with Confetti.
P.S don’t come after it rains because there’s no place to sit inside to enjoy your treat. The tables and seats outside were drenched from the rain earlier today so we ate in the car during our drive back home :/

This place is so good! Heard from others that it was great. Locations are all over the east coast, but never tried it before.
It’s located in the corner in a plaza, so it’s easy to miss. Pretty small location. New and clean.
Had the regular Italian ice and tried a sample of the custard. So good! Maybe the best frozen desserts I’ve ever had in America. The custard especially was so creamy and soft.
Will be a regular here for sure.

The only place I have ever had frozen custard at is a place in Las Vegas. I fell in love with that custard and I dream of it often. A trip to Vegas means a stop there, every time.
When Rita’s opened I was super excited to have a frozen custard place near my house. Hopes were high that it would be just like the place in Vegas. We finally made it over there last night. My BF went in to get it, I stayed in the car since it was raining. I told him I just wanted chocolate custard.
He came back with two pretty small containers of custard. They were «large» size. He said they only had four flavors of custard but many flavors of Italian Ice, and they were all fruit flavored. I don’t care for fruity flavored things, so I guess custard would be my best bet here.
Got the custard home and tried it. Meh. It was alright. But it was not nearly as delicious as the custard in Vegas. It just seemed like fro-​yo to me, perhaps a bit creamier. I would rather go across the street to Yogurtland where there is a bigger selection of flavors.

I was really, really, really excited to see that a Rita’s had opened not too far from me, especially since I have a huge sweet tooth and once that craving hits. I have to satisfy it.
This Rita’s is located in the shopping plaza at Imperial and Santa Ana canyon right by the Rite Aids, you can’t miss it. It is a small place like typical Italian ice and custard places, I have heard a lot of good things about Rita’s so I was really excited to try it. I pretty much made it a Unilocal goal to try all the Italian ice and custard places in the OC. It is getting difficult to do so nowadays because so many of them are popping up all over but I will accomplish my goal!
Anyways, for all that excitement I was sadly a bit disappointed. Personally, I think Rita’s is just okay. I got the Italian ice and custard combo, regular size for $ 3.99. You can get either the Italian ice by itself, or the custard by itself or a combination of the both. I got the green apple and starburst cherry Italian ice with vanilla custard.
The custard is not bad, smooth with a good vanilla flavor but it is not as creamy as frostbite and had an odd artificial sugar taste that I was not quite used to. The green apple I have to say was way better than the Starbucks cherry. The Starbucks cherry reminded me of cherry flavor medicine and had the consistency and taste of an icee. I was not a fan and would not recommend getting cherry anything unless you are mixing it to either kill the medicinal cherry taste or enhancing another flavor with it.
The place was empty when I went so I did not have to deal with the throng of high school kids which I would imagine would frequent that place since there’s a high school up the street. The two workers there were pleasant, not quite as eager to help as other Italian ice places.
Would I come back? Yes, to try the Swedish Fish flavor that they apparently have here. I totally would have gotten that flavor but I did not recall seeing it. If the Swedish Fish is not as cracked up as I imagine it to be then I would probably save my sugar cravings for another Italian Ice place or maybe Rite Aids ice cream, but a true sweet tooth dessert person knows. Ice cream does not equal Italian ice/​custard, that’s like craving a cupcake and eating a muffin… not the same.

Out of all the frozen custards and ice creams I’ve ever had this one definitely tops everything! Alexis B. was stuck on Confetti but after trying Rita’s I don’t think they could come close! My sister came here 2x on a off time and I decided to come inside with her which was an epic fail!
This shopping center is already a CF and now that their is a new shop it makes it worse! I didn’t realize how small it was until we were inside filled with stinky obnoxious teenagers and uptight moms who were cutting the line to sample every flavor and not buy anything but say outside «I rather go to Rite Aid its cheaper» –_​_​_​– Seriously lady do you know what area this is?! Everything is expensive!
One thing about all the businesses out here is that they hire these young teenagers that are just looking for money and don’t really give two craps about their job, they can be so aloof and out to space! I did see the manager try to be friendly to everyone but he only rang people up while the two girls were doing everything and the line kept getting bigger, shouldn’t a manager be doing the dirty work as well instead of smoozing with these whack uppity people?!
It seemed there was a few people from corporate roaming around which made things more of a CF, it’s a tight spot and roaming inside a box doesn’t make things better. The girls did the best they could but they let their classmates/​friends take too many samples which made the line go sooo slow! We already knew what we wanted and wanted to go get in and out!
Now I can’t knock their product because its addicting and delicious, I can’t stop myself and can devour it in one sitting! It’s definitely a nice change of pace to have something like this out here since the people are so finicky and only flock to mainly chain places, usually you’d have to go into the heart of Anaheim by Disneyland to go to Joe’s but now we can avoid it and come here (only during an off time!)
I love Rita’s and hope they fix their kinks since its still new and have a true manager that just isn’t being chummy with the kids working there, and actually laying down the law.