Sugar Mama’s

How anyone can give this place anything less than five stars is crazy! We found this small ice cream parlor a little over a year ago and have not gone anywhere else for ice cream locally since then. The ice cream flavors are fresh, unique and delicious. The service is always top notch and the owners are so friendly.
As previous reviews mentioned, the servings are huge and prices are reasonable. It’s the only ice cream parlor where I have ever been where they don’t charge for a waffle cone. Who does that these days???
I highly recommend trying sugar mamas and supporting a local fairfax business. Just found out that they are closed for the holidays (until Jan 7) — ugh, hope I can survive!

Not usually a big ice cream fan, but when I have my intense ice cream cravings, I expect it to be good.
Stopped by a couple of times and my favorite flavors so far are the coconut (with chocolate chip in it i believe) and the oreo. I get it in a waffle cone and I’m a happy camper.
Be sure to like them on Facebook or check in on Unilocal so you can redeem a discount :)

I had the chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream last week, and it was fabulous! It had large chunks of cookie dough, and the actual ice cream had a good flavor too. Sometimes chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream tastes like nothing with cookie dough in it. I will definitely be going back. I might wait until it’s warmer outside though…

Love taking ymy family here after a nice dinner to get our sugar rush on. They are sooooo generous with their scoops! Ice creams are fresh and really homemade. Love this place!!!

I rarely get the sweet tooth and when I did this ice cream spot satisfied every sweet tooth I ever got!
Service — The girl that helped me with making a decision on the flavors and gave me multiple samples of each one really did help me with my final decision on what to get! She was patient with me (because sometimes I can be VERY indecisive)! She was also very knowledgable about each flavor and was able to pinpoint what I would possibly like!
Food — I got the Coconut Chocolate Crunch and Espresso Chocolate Chip and both were amazingly delicious! Creamy with an abundant amount of ingredients in each scoop! And they do not skimp on their portions!
Price — For the price you’re paying compared to the baseball size scoop — it was totally worth it! And there’s a 10% off discount on first time checked in users! I practically paid nothing :)
Overall, I would totally come back without a doubt to try their other delightful flavors!

Ok, everyone has said it, but it must me said. This place is great! My wife and I went for dessert after lunch. We had the mini scoops for 50 cents apiece. This way we could each have 5 different flavors. I definitely love their Java Chip! So good. My wife loved their salted caramel and pumpkin. The coconut was very nice as well. Really, all the flavors were excellent, more so than any other ice cream place in the DMV that I can recall. The problem is the greatest flavors are so amazingly tasty, it makes the others pale in comparison. So go here, and eat some ice cream. We are all going to go to the big ice cream parlor in the sky one day. Make sure you visit here at least once so you know what to expect when you get up there.

I had a wonderful 1^st experience! I enjoyed my «tastings“‘while I chose a FINAL flavor selection for my cake cone. Since its been a while for me (I’m referring to my eating an ice cream cone), I decided to go all out! I definitely CAKED on the calories today and it was WELL WORTH IT! The nice lady behind the counter took great care of my dessert needs and in kind… I made a monetary donation. I will be coming back whenever I’m in the Fairfax area for sue! Oh and I almost forgot, you get 10% when you mention that you found them on Unilocal!!!#IcingOnTopOfTheCone #ThoughtIWaa GonnaSayCakeDidntYou

Had a late night ice cream craving and the bf and I came across Sugar mama’s. It had 4.5 stars on Unilocal so I trusted it’d be good. What a disappointment. Tasted the strawberry first and while the consistency was good, the flavor was so off. Might I also add that there were no strawberry chunks in the ice cream. Who doesn’t have strawberry chunks in their ice cream these days?! Isn’t that a standard? So onto cookies and cream. Better than the strawberry but by no means amazing. This however did have cookie chunks, but not enough. It might as well have been vanilla ice cream. The bf got pistachio and it was hands down the worst ice cream I’ve ever had. Everything from the consistency to flavor to even the color of it was so artificial. I almost wished I could untaste the 1 spoonful I had. Unfortunately, the pistachio was on top of the cookies and cream so I had to intentionally make an effort to eat around it, if that gives you any idea of how awful it was. Lastly, I must comment on the spoons. They are the cheap spoons that bend as soon as you insert it into the ice cream. This normally most likely would not have been an issue but because I was trying to avoid the horrendous pistachio, maybe it had to maneuver in a way that it’s not used to? Shrug.
I hate to leave such an awful review but it just really didn’t live up to its hype on Unilocal.Next time I’ll save myself a trip and go to the local safeway for a pint of Breyers.
The 2 stars goes for it being a mom/​pop shop and the generous portions.

My ice cream craving decided to hit me the second I walked out of the Vietnamese place a few doors down, so I decided to drop by Sugar Mama’s for a quick fix.
The inside is spacious, clean and quirky. The wall decals, posters, and chalk wall make for a very fun and cute atmosphere, and they have a candy section with sweets that will stir up some nostalgia.
I got the double scoop oreo ice cream to start with, until I saw just how humongous one scoop was. I stopped the guy scooping ice cream; one scoop would definitely be enough for me! My friend got the banana split with strawberries, oreo crumbles, and hot fudge. They don’t skimp on anything here; each bite of the split had a great ratio of all the ingredients. The ice cream is rich and creamy, although I will say not all the flavors work for me. But the easy solution is just to taste test until you land on your favorite!
The employees were friendly enough and were pleasant while they answered our questions about Sugar Mama’s and rang us up.

This place is so cute! My cousins took me here and the ice cream is fantastic. The service was great and everyone was friendly. It’s great to know that it’s locally owned and operated. The price is pretty good. The ice cream tastes amazing. I’d come back here again

Awesome!
Indoor and outdoor seating is available. The cashier was super sweet and very helpful. He made some recommendations, which were delicious. They offer a variety of handmade ice cream, bottled drinks, candy, ice cream sandwiches, and ice cream cakes. I think it’s so cool that they offer mini scoops, which are 50 cents each. Everything on their menu sounded so good and I’m glad that we were able to try a little bit of everything. Their ice cream is smooth, creamy, flavorful, and not too sweet. Some of my favorites were Cinnamon, Strawberry, Coconut Chocolate Crunch, and Banana Cream Pie.
They are always rotating their flavors around, so the flavors available can vary. I love that they offer pints and quarts of their ice cream in a freezer. If there is a particular flavor that you want and it’s not in the freezer, I believe you can ask an employee to custom pack one for you. Their ice cream cakes look delicious too. I can’t wait to surprise loved ones with a cake from here.
I’m so glad we found Sugar Mama’s. If you check in on Unilocal,you can get 10% off your total. Sweet: D

My cousins are frequent visitors of this ice cream shop and took me here twice in 1 week! I definitely was not complaining, as I progressively got more scoops each visit.
I was very surprised with how large the scoops were! Collectively I tried several flavors and my favorites were smores and raspberry white chocolate. The consistency of the ice cream is very smooth.
A great treat for the summer weather :)

Hello Fairfax friends,
Skip the Sweet Frogs, the Menchies, or any of the other local serve yourself yogurt places and get over to Sugar Mama’s! The ice cream is top notch and the staff are super friendly. Ice cream is made in house and their special favors like banana nut are delicious. If you live in Fairfax, this is the place to go for ice cream. Locally owned and operated makes the place even better.

I had the hat trick sandwhich and it was tastey. The shop makes home made ice cream. The crust on my sandwhich was really good and had a great crunch. I really enjoyed the caramel in the sandwhich as well. I would say though that overall concept of an ice cream sandwhich it didn’t blow me away but it was good.
Recommend because it’s a mom and pop and on part of what one would expect with an ice cream sandwhich.

About a 2 – 2.5: Sugar Mama’s is a small little ice cream shop in a small plaza off of Lee Highway (next to Phở Viet). They are a local family-​owned & operated and pride in themselves in offering handmade ice cream with no artificial ingredients. Ice cream flavors include Chocolate, Vanilla Bean, Strawberry, Mint Chocolate Chip, cookie Dough, S’mores, Butter Brickle, Espresso Chip, Apple Pie, Bittersweet, Rocky Road, Pistachio, Oreo, Caramel Praline, Banana Cream Pie, Coconut Chocolate Crunch, Peanut Butter Cup, Butter Pecan, Chocolate Brownie, Chocolate Chip, Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip, and White Chocolate Raspberry. Do not be afraid to ask for samples, and they update their flavors on their site all the time. If you had a flavor previously that is not listed, they can also create it for you. Besides ice cream, they also have sundaes, banana splits, ice cream cookie sandwiches, milkshakes, malts, root beer floats, coffee/​tea/​hot chocolate, old-​fashioned candy, and, most recently, an addition of ice cream cakes. I really enjoyed their Banana Cream Pie, as it had a nice banana flavor throughout — there were some pound cake bread within that was a little dry, though; I also tried their Raspberry Chocolate Chip that was highly recommended by one of the locals — it was actually pretty good, as the raspberry flavor was very pronounced in a creamy ice cream blend with some mini chocolate chips. I tried the Mint Chocolate Chip, and that was the most disappointing, as it had a slight mint flavor and not too refreshing (ended up tossing it); the hubs had Oreo, and that was also quite underwhelming, as it was mostly vanilla ice cream with a lack of Oreo chunks. The older lady that helped us was very nice and sweet; the younger one (I believe who was the daughter), was a little unfriendly T_​_​_​T There were some seating within, but there are some benches outside where you can enjoy your treat. With a Unilocal check-​in, you save 10%.
+10% discount with a Unilocal check-​in
+Banana Cream Pie ice cream
+uses real cream and sugar — artificial-​free
+inflated prices
+semi-​friendly staff

Sugar Mama’s is a place that serves homemade ice cream with big portions. I decided to get a two scoop sundae (screw my dairy intolerance) and was impressed by the size. I had a hard time deciding what flavors I wanted and finally ended up with S’more and coconut chocolate crunch. I could choose one topping (health bar) with a cherry on top. I did opted out on the whip cream and my stomach clearly was thankful. The s’more was just okay but the coconut chocolate crunch was on point and clearly I get why it was a best seller.
My husband ordered a caramel praline malt shake. He said it was good but would have wanted more malt added in.
Overall this place is a great place to get big size portions of delicious homemade icecream.

3.5 stars for the ice cream. It’s not the best old fashioned ice cream shop I’ve ever been to (Boston and nyc beat this one easily). The flavors are a bit artificial to me (example, the pistachio is a bright green), and the peppermint I sampled didn’t really have the right peppermint flavor in my opinion. I selected the banana cream pie– again the banana flavor tasted a bit artificial to me… I whip up frozen bananas at home myself and the ice cream didn’t taste like real bananas? My boyfriend got the praline caramel which was better than mine.
If you lived near here, sure, probably a good place to take the family on those hot summer days. I wouldn’t go out of my way though.
The big one scoop costs only $ 2.99, which is a great deal, and the ice cream was creamy and thick. I was just not wild about the artificial taste. I prefer ice cream jubilee, pitango gelato, and dolcezza in the DMV.

Pros
+ Generous serving size– 1 scoop is plenty of ice cream for one person, my gf and I even reached the conclusion that we could have split it and been satisfied
+ Wide array of flavors
+ Good pricing
+ 10% off if you check in with Unilocal
Cons
+ Limited amount of seating, only two tables (4 chairs each) and one bench inside
+ Lack of customer service, not greeted and staff were talking among themselves, pretty much ignored my gf and I
I tried the Mint chocolate chip and my gf got the coconut chocolate crunch. Their ice cream is just average but that’s probably because I got spoiled by an awesome ice cream shop in RVA called Bevs Ice-​cream. I haven’t had ice-​cream that compares to Bevs in this area yet. For those of you who are seeking to try this place out, I would still recommend to do so cause plenty of other Unilocaler’s seemed to enjoy it.

I liked it, but I didn’t love it.
Sugar Mama’s serves handmade ice cream and they have a large variety of flavors. Everything from your typical chocolate and vanilla to more specialty flavors like pistachio and banana cream pie. Servings sizes here are very generous. I got one scoop of Coconut Chocolate Crunch in a cup and I struggled to finish it all. Seriously one scoop of ice cream was the size of a baseball! Though I thought the ice cream’s flavor was on point, I wasn’t really a fan of the ice cream’s texture as it was a little too dense and thick for my liking.
I’ll have to give Sugar Mama’s a second chance one day. Their banana cream pie and butter brickle flavors sound super enticing. But until then, my review stands at a solid 3-​stars for now.
Oh, and if you check-​in on Unilocal,you get 10% off your purchase.

Ice cream… ice cream … ice cream… ohhhhh yummmmm
even better they do these great tiny cute mini scoops so. when you can’t decide get these tiny scoops of each.
Or get your fav but warning their regular scoop is HUGE!
So far I adore the espresso chip. Hubby a purist and still prefers his vanilla…
We always ask for a quart to be hand packed to go!