Carvel Ice Cream Store #1891

My local carvel. The best mint chocolate chip ice cream around. All of their cakes are made in store. You can’t go wrong with a carvel ice cream cake

I’ve driven by this store a bunch of times but didn’t stop until the other day. It’s Carvel. Always reminds me of when I was a kid. They have a bunch of ice cream cakes and sandwiches that you can take home.
I’m not familiar with their new additions to the menu so I tried a Sunday Dasher with Riece’s Peanut Butter flavor. It was pretty good.
They share a parking lot with a few of the adjoining businesses. It can fill up pretty quickly when it gets busy. Plenty of street parking too.

I really liked carvel until Today when I came into this store. This is my second time coming to this location, I believe the first time was for a ice-​cream sundae. Which is what I think of when I see the big signs everywhere. I also loved their Ice-​cream cakes, which we had a lot of when we were younger.
But I guess over the years, I’ve moved on to more «adult» tasting (less sugary) Ice-​creams, that’s why I haven’t visited carvel for about 5 or more years.
So Today (on a hot July day) I came to my old favorite, for a milkshake and a cone for my mom. I opted for the strawberry milkshake, and my mom wanted the Reese’s cone (which is one of their newer flavor).
We were told that the Reese’s cone was unavailable, which was a huge disappointment cause it’s the ONLY flavor that looked appealing and interesting. We drove out of our way and passed coldstone creamery, which we should have gone to instead.
So anyway, she got the regular cone– which she said tasted just like the ones from the mr. Softee van. As per my milkshake, it was too sweet and bland.
But besides the disappointing products and unavailability of the advertised cones, the thing that really got me to never again come to this carvel, is the unfriendliness of the young woman that was serving the ice-​cream & her inability to produce a reciept to me. I’m hugely disappointed that a company as big as carvel cannot properly train their staff to handle a simple task of generating a receipt. First she asked an older gentleman how to get it from the register, and he didn’t know as well. Then she says to me «I’m sorry I can’t give you one» without any further explanation. This is no small mom and pop store in the 50s!!! It’s 2015 and you can’t give a customer a reciept?! That’s just unacceptable.
I’ve totally outgrown this kiddie ice-​cream store, unless they change something drastically about the ice-​cream or the have better people working there, I’m never coming here again.

If you’re looking for warm soft-​serve ice cream that melts and runs down your arm two seconds after it hits your hand, you’ve come to the right place. They also specialize in thin, flavorless shakes from putting a full half-​gallon of milk in them.
The girls who work there all give you an attitude because your ice cream is interrupting their conversation, and God forbid you don’t tip them when they’re done giving you your stupid ice cream.
Not that it matters much, but the owner/​store manager is pretty weird, too. Every time I’ve gone in there, he’s either smoking a cigarette right outside the store, or creeping around in the back behind the ice cream machines. Always with a scowl on his face like he hates everything and everyone.

I love this carvel store and let me explain why :) first off I live in Arverne on the peninsula of Rockaway Beach and the only Carvel we have is the dirty one on 116^th street and I do mean dirty last time I checked they had a health inspection grade of a C! So I travel across the bridge to get my mother cherry vanilla ice cream and my vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles from this carvel. Also my wife loves the mint chocolate chip with brownie bites :) we call this old folks ice cream because Carvel been around for years but the flavor never changed and it’s better than these ice cream patriots popping up everywhere. The staff is super friendly! The ice cream is delicious! The store is always clean! They have a A for their health inspection grade. They have a large selection of ice cream cakes and frozen treats to take home. Try this Carvel today!

This carvel has been in the same spot for over 20 years. The ice cream never changes, and this is probably why I keep coming back. The kids who work there are always nice and service is always quick. The store is kept very clean and they always have a nice selection of specials going on.

This place is great… if you like overpriced freezerburn ice cream. On top of that the kids who work here have an attitude and are clueless.

This carvel has been around for over 20 years, and has all the goodies. Cookie Puss, thick shakes and the best soft served ice cream.