IV Drip

Ripoff of CREAM up north but shit, it’s delicious and pretty reasonably priced. You can’t go wrong with the classic cookies & ice cream combos, cookiewiches are dope. Haven’t tried much more on the menu but it all looks good. Service is always nice and effective, just chill college students. Glad to have it here.

I’m a sucker for ice cream, coffee, cookies and anything sweet. Located in the middle of the college town, Iv drip is home to my satisfaction. Whether it’s raining and I need a hot coffee and fresh baked cookie or its 80 degrees and 30% humidity and I need a Ice cream to cool off, iv drip is the place to be. Their ice cream comes from my favorite ice cream shop in McConnells in Santa Barbara home to fresh local grown fruit found in the ice cream. The staff is super kind and always there with a smile. On final or midterms week it’s .99 cent coffee days and that’s awesome ! Thank you iv drip for saving my life as a student at UCSB.

Wow let me tell you I’ve been to IV drip a few times and this was by far the best experience!
This one girl understood and expanded my parks and recs reference which meant a lot.
Then I explained what I wanted and totally made it amazing and made it beautiful and that was just about the most amazing thing I’ve ever tasted.
Thanks being so amazing you’re a rockstar.
I hope you get promoted and all of your dreams come true!

Late night gather with my new American friends! This place is awesome!

I am not a fan of their cookiewiches. The cookies are like dome-​shaped, so it’s hard to fit in your mouth. Trying to force it into your mouth makes you squeeze out the ice cream. Even if you manage to get everything in one bite, the cookie is so big that the flavor of it completely overpowers the ice cream. The other thing about the cookie is that it is very chunky – which I never thought could be a problem because hello it’s a cookie, but it felt like I was eating a candy bar. I had the cookie with chocolate and toffee. The chocolate stuck to my fingers and the toffee flavor was absent. I paired the cookies with Turkish coffee ice cream. No wonder the shop is called IV Drip – the ice cream dripped everywhere. It was later in the day and the ice cream was freshly scooped, it should not have dripped as much as it did. I ate the last chunk of ice cream that I had sans cookie and it was really good. It’s a shame that it got lost in the cookiewich. All in all, it was good-​ish for the price, but I’ve had better. No complaints about service either.

Cute little shop with not only awesome coffee/​ice cream, buy super friendly and helpful baristas. One even went out of her way to mail a lost phone home. Ya gotta check out IV Drip!

I don’t give many five star reviews but I love this place. The employees are always super sweet and helpful, and most importantly, the food is amazing. The cookies and ice cream are made in house and locally, and they’re as fantastic as the smoothies (yummy fresh fruit). I especially love the made to order sandwiches! They’re inexpensive and fresh and perfect for a quick lunch (they don’t even pre chop cucumbers).
And if you get 10 chipwiches you get one free! Indulge your sweet tooth!

The cookies are SO GOOD. The ice cream is silky, smooth, and delicious. A great afternoon snack on a hot summer day, or a late night dessert after a long day of exploring, IV Drip is a staple of the Isla Vista community and one I plan to support for years to come.

Honestly, I cannot stop raving about this place.
I absolutely love their chai frappes. It is my number one favorite edible item in all of Santa Barbara. All my money goes towards here so I try to frequent less often (which is really hard!) Their chai lattes are pretty good too, waaaay better than Starbucks. Their ice cream is creamy and decadent. I’m not much of a cookie/​brownie/​pastry person so I don’t go out of my way to buy those. However, they gave out free samples of their cookie one time and it was really good! Not overly sweet, which is a big turn off for me. When I come with my friend, she always gets the brownies! She got me a brookie (brownie/​cookie) and it was super good!
I feel like any place can have good food. What really makes me come back is their customer service. All the workers are sweet and friendly. In fact, they look happy to be working here! I’m not going to lie, my order has been messed up twice (with a minor difference but it really changes the drink around.) The first time this happened, the girl realized the mistake and apologized. She remade the drink and the manager (or owner) gave me a voucher for a free cookiewich. (They let me keep the original which I gave to my friend because I couldn’t drink it.) The second time, I offered to pay for a remake but the guy behind the counter insisted on remaking it free of charge. (I tipped because I felt bad about wasting ingredients.)
Either way, I left smiling. I’ve never been disappointed in IV Drip. I love their employees and their service!
(They also occasionally have buck-​a-​cup ($ 1 tea/​coffee) and frappy hour ($ 3 any size frappé.)
However, one time I ordered my drink late at night and the girl asked if it was «for here or to go.» I was confused, but she told me there was a sitting fee for «for here.» (My friend and I were the only one in the restaurant.) I didn’t mind paying a few more cents because of their outstanding service the other times I’ve been here.

At the beginning of the summer when all of the J1 Irish students landed in, they did a deal where we could get a free cookie every day if you were Irish. They also sold Barry’s Tea here– and if anyone is Irish, you’ll understand what this means. This was amazing and really brought in so much business– some people continued to take advantage for as long as the deal went on but others like myself started to buy things each time and eventually just came on our own terms. The cookie sandwiches are heaven and it’s open pretty late which is amazing. Small enough place but there are seats outside.

I love this place. I don’t even know how many times I’ve been seeing as I often go and forget to check in. They’re open pretty late into the night, so if you get late night ice cream or cookiewich cravings like I do, this is where you must go.
I also happen to be lactose intolerant, but I can’t stop myself from coming here. Let me also say that they are so liberal with their scoops. A single scoop is actually two scoops of ice cream, which for me is more than enough. You can even get two different flavors in one scoop! So great, right? Also their ice cream happens to be McConnell’s ice cream, which is delicious, and makes it so much better that I don’t have to go all the way downtown to get it.
The one drawback is that it’s pretty small. They don’t have a lot of sitting space inside. There are chairs and tables outside, though, so do not fret.
You can probably already tell that I’ll be back. YAY FOR ICE CREAM AND COOKIES!

A really cool combination coffee shop and ice cream shop! I got iced coffee and a cookiewich and both were great. The girl working behind the counter was really patient and helpful about letting us try like five different flavors. The outdoor seating was really nice.

IV drip is by far my favorite place in IV and enough can’t be said about the customer service. The coffee is great, and the sweets are righteously good, but it’s the service that always bring me back. When people are nice and friendly to you every time you come in, and can work with a smile all the time, it makes you want to stop in there for your morning cup or afternoon sweet tooth, oh and not to mention that if you bring your own cup refills a $ 1. I would try out there espresso and a cookiewich if it was your first time

What a treat to have McConnell’s ice cream so close to campus (the scant selection at the Arbor doesn’t count). I love the freebies, and their baked goodies are off the chain too. Who doesn’t want an ice cream sandwich with delectable ice cream AND homemade cookies or brownies? Shit is off the chain!

I visited IV Drip more often than any other eateries while studying at UCSB. The reason being they serve ice cream cookie sandwiches, or «cookiewiches.» And they switched from Dreyer’s ice cream to McConnell’s ice cream in 2013.
The cookies are all made on site daily, but most of them taste lower than average on their own.
The first time I tried IV Drip was when my professor brought a bag of the cookies into class on a rainy day to reward the students who actually showed up. Only two of us came to class, so he said we could take the extra cookies. They were so bland, too salty, and a little on the dry side though that I didn’t even want to finish my first one. For this reason, I held off on going here for months.
Fortunately, the cookies combined with the ice cream make for a really good treat if you don’t want to make the cookiewich yourself. Eventually I just went here to order ice cream because it’s really the best part.
The caramel and s’more cookies are the best in taste and texture. Both my house mate and best friend agreed.
Nothing else is very good here and the acai bowl is a rip-​off, though they make it sound like a great deal. It’s tiny and has no good toppings.
This place has great hours but very limited seating.

yay for being open late and for serving great ice cream! I’m definitely a fan of the salted caramel ice cream. I’ve had a few cookiewiches here before too. It satisfies the sweet tooth craving, that’s for sure, but the cookies are just overwhelmingly too sweet for me.
Though I’ve yet to try all the flavors offered (one day, eventually), the price for a scoop of ice cream is pretty pricy; same goes for the cookiewich. It seems like they’ve hiked up their prices a little, but that little bit makes all the difference to me. I’d rather buy myself a pint of ice cream, but I won’t mind dropping by for a scoop if my friends and I decide to have a sweet treat here.

Slightly remodeled now. Added a nice touch to the ambiance of the place. Always got friendly service here. Ordered an Americano half caffeine. Not bad, had a little bit of a smokey flavor. Got a free cookie piece from a cookie that crumbled. My lucky day!
Had an ice cream sandwich here once — chocolate chip cookie with vanilla ice cream and some caramel I think. It was pretty good but a bit too sweet.
Pros:
— open late until 12 am or later on weekends
— takes card as long as purchase is over $ 1

This place gets 5 stars for being open late at night! (And yes, I realize this is a college town, which is why things are open late, but I’m old…)
Stopped by for a cookiewich around 11pm on a Saturday night, and loved that you can mix and match your cookies. The cookie wasn’t as great as I expected, but this was late at night so I can’t blame them for not having super fresh cookies. There is a plethora of cookies available, so trust me that you’ll spend more time deciding what kind of cookies to get rather than actually eating it.
The ice cream selection is McConnell’s (which if you’ve been to State Street lately, you’ll know there’s a ridiculously long wait out the door there), which makes the cookiewich that much sweeter (no pun intended). Each cookiewich was around $ 3.95, but I believe it’s two for $ 6.50.
All in all, totally worth stopping by for a late night ice cream treat!
P. s. You get your cookiewich in a small styrofoam bowl, which you’ll come to appreciate as the ice cream and cookie dust get all over your hands. What. just me?

If you are in IV, you must come try this place!
They are known for their cookiewich, and they give you so much ice cream, it makes you full. I used to go here for ice cream and their cookiewich, but now I mostly go there for breakfast.
You can choose your breakfast sandwhich from crossiants, bagels, english muffin and add the meat, cheese, and condiments!

Recently went to the new and improved IV Drip. While I was at UCSB (alum ’09), cookiewiches were the shit! Fresh baked cookies plus Dreyer’s ice cream.
Well now, it’s DOUBLY the shit because they have fancy cookies (flavors like red velvet and s’mores) and HOMEMADE ice cream!!! They had pumpkin ice cream for the fall season. Can you say O.M.G?!