Pink Spot

I found this place a few yrs ago. I was needing a coffee for a pick me up. I was hooked from the very first cup. EXCELLENT! This became the only place I would go for coffee for the next 3 yrs.
Im sorry to see that it is now closed. I want to thank D and the others for all the yrs of excellent service and great coffee.

NOOOOOOOO!!! WHY???
I’m obsessing about cappuccino crunch milkshake with 2 shots espresso!
Why did you close??? My boyfriend and I loved your spot!

LOVE this place!!! Every time I come (which isn’t as frequent as I’d like due to proximity) everyone is super helpful and nice. I’ve only had their ice cream and WOW! Delish! Chocolate Peanutbutter — yumm! I look forward to exploring their menu.
Great vibe, urban setting & comfortable atmosphere. We’ve done the Z’s pizza next door (they’re joined) and that too was a great experience.
At first glance Parking looks to be an issue — however there is parking down the side and around back.

The place is awesome! Very chill environment, and all desserts are presentable! I love cheesecake and dipped in chocolate had me at first sight! It tasted incredible! The peach smoothie I had as well was perfect! It was a last minute run but it just hit up! Very happy!

The location is perfect. It’s in downtown Phoenix and connected to Z Pizza! They offer a variety of items to choose from: breakfast food, ice cream, baked delicacies, etc.
The downside is that it’s dark in there. It feels kind of depressing. There is not very much parking.

The short: Pink Spot’s ice cream has my favorite texture – dense, almost chewy, and smooth. The flavors are spot on. Parking can seem tricky, but there’s more along the side and in back, and inside, there’s ample seating but with a cozy feel. Service is good, and so are the cookies we’ve tried.
The long: Parking out front can be tricky, especially since all the spots slant southeast, but there’s more parking around the side and behind the building. Then you might have to duck under or around some patio umbrellas to get to the front door. Once you’re inside and home free, though, you have a clean, open interior with couches, tables, and chairs, bookshelves with games and books along the side, and the counter lining the back wall. There’s a doorway into the pizza joint next door, too.
The counter help is friendly, quick, and efficient, and I’m glad they aren’t stingy with the sample tastes because I always want to try everything I haven’t already tried, and sometimes I just want a taste of something I already know I like. We liked the ice cream so much the first time, we went back twice in one week. We’ve tried Callebaut chocolate, mint chip, chocolate peanut butter, salted caramel, and pistachio, and they all have good, pure flavors. The texture is perfect – better than any other ice cream I’ve ever had. I don’t know what little mom and pop creamery Pink Spot is coming from (last I read, it was Karen’s Kreamery), but whoever they are, they’re doing wonderful things.
The baked goods are made in-​house, and they’re also excellent. I can’t get enough big, soft, chewy cookies, and this has been a dependable place to get them. I haven’t tried anything off their savory or coffee menus, but I plan to next time I visit.

Just had «the clucker» for breakfast! Awesome, I recommend this place… Great ambiance, great food, great service… and on top of all of that, breakfast is served whole day and they deliver!

A solid ice cream store built into a pizza place. A decent selection of ice cram, with a few nice flavors.
I ordered a traditional ice cream soda (told they could do it). Well they didn’t quite know what they were doing. They had the ingridents right — sure. Yet the important step of syrup first, adding soda water, and creating a slurry was skipped. Instead they just topped ice cream with syrup and put the soda water in.
It took a decent amount of work to get the syrup and the soda water mixed up together.
So maybe ice cream soda isn’t their strong part. That is fine. They had a solid selection of ice cream and some really uniquely sounding desserts (chocolate dipped bacon anyone?).
I think I would go back for another try at a four-​star.. .just not getting the ice cream soda next time.

Omg horchata ice cream!!! This is probably the best ice cream joint in the Phoenix area… I have been to churn and many others and the taste and quality just seems to stand out here at Pink Spot. I love the pink spot (pun intendo) They also have wonderful blended shakes, banana splits, and dipped bacon or cheesecake. It’s everything you could ever want in an ice cream shop and I love it. I would certainly recommend this to all of my Unilocal friends as well as IRL friends.

Delicious homemade ice cream! This is one of those magical places where the ice cream just bursts with the actual flavor — like the chocolate coconut tastes like real coconut and amazing dark chocolate. The waffle cones are yummy, the atmosphere is super cute, and you get tons of bang for the buck. And if you have a hankering for some savory with your sweet, it’s attached to ZPizza.

The best ice cream sandwich in town and (for future reference) they deliver. What’s not to like?
Plenty of adventurous flavors if you’re into that sort of thing and if you want the usual suspects (I’m a mint chip aficionado) you’ll be pleased. I’m going to be back. A lot.

This place hits the spot! Get it!
Awesome seating with couches and high tops!
Crazy selection of homemade treats like ice cream tacos made with any flavor wrapped in a waffle cone shaped like a taco shell.
Love the choco covered bacon!
We tried pear Gorgonzola with real
Cheese! Chocolate grand mariner with real grand mariner. Indonesian coconut, peanut butter and jelly, which tasted like the real
Sandwich!
Love this place and def recommend it to all ice cream nuts!

I really want to like this place a lot more than I actually do.
The ice cream is good (not the best in town.)
The coffee is good (not even close to the best in town.)
The room is comfortable — but nothing that stands out as a draw for me.
The novelties (ice cream sandwiches, chocolate bananas, several flavors of chocolate covered bacon, etc.) are pretty cool.
I’ve been in a few times (mostly surrounding the plans of a dear friend’s now ten year old daughter who loves the place) — and am sure I will be back in the future, but I don’t see Pink Spot being a part of the heavy rotation list.

Pink Spot is a cute ice cream shop with good ambiance. The clerk was friendly and let sample everything I wanted. The shop has a limited flavor selection but all the flavors I tried were good. It’s good ice cream. It’s a place I’d stop if I wanted ice cream and I was in the neighborhood but I wouldn’t go out of my way to go there.

Holy Amazing.
I just tried this place for the first time… and I live about 2 blocks away… I feel a larger pants size coming in the near future.
The 2 girls working were very friendly and attentive, and actually offered some suggestions, samples, and info about their frequent customer deal.
We ended up getting chocolate covered bananas, cheesecake, and bacon! Yes, it was a splurge day. All were good, but frozen bananas will always be my favorite. I can’t wait to try their coffee, I am a coffee fiend so I’m excited to have a local place so nearby. The sample of the coffee ice cream was dangerously good. I’m smiling just thinking about going there again.
Thank you for opening such a cool place.

I hit the Pink Spot (LOL) once, but I don’t see a relationship forming out of this.
Sure, she’s open late, has lots of unsual treats to be bought (chocolate covered bacon? Red Hot flavored ice cream? chocolate covered pringles?) but the price gouge seems a little unfair. I bought a Pink Classic Sundae Double Scoop ($ 5.40) and just wasn’t that impressed. The size was a little smaller than your standard red solo cup and it could have been Dreyer’s ice cream for all I knew.
I’m digging the comfy couches, the patio seating, the general ambience of the establishment… but… I think it’s a one-​time gig for me.
It’s like dating a stuck-​up girl just because she lives close to you and doesn’t care if you stop by at 9:00PM because all the other girls weren’t answering their phones. You might hit it once, but you’ll find a nice girl (or ice cream shoppe) who you don’t mind driving a little further for that makes you feel good and doesn’t drain your wallet.
This relationship and ice cream advice brought you you by the one and only Dr. Lindsay. That’ll be 5 cents.

This business is a combination restaurant, ice cream parlor and coffee shop that is in a shared space with a pizza parlor, which illustrates pretty well that they’ve covered all the bases. It’s a clean, spacious place that’s stylish and functional. They have a flatscreen on the wall with ESPN on at low volume, tables, couches and bookshelves and bulletin boards that always have interesting events and business posted.
They are across the street from St. Joseph’s hospital and you’ll often see hospital workers show up for coffee or lunch in their scrubs. Which is why I appreciate that their chairs are hard plastic and couches are vinyl/​pleather that clean easy and the workers do keep it immaculately clean here. Sorry nurses, but your scrubs are a germ factory.
The ice cream here is the most well-​presented part of their menu and when you walk in you’re instantly drawn to the bright colors and sprinkles. Frozen display cases show off chocolate covered popsicle concoctions including: chocolate covered frozen bacon on a stick, chocolate covered cheesecake wedges on a stick, chocolate covered frozen bananas, chocolate covered peanut butter lollipops, and mix-​n-​match ice cream sandwiches. They have a good selection of scoopable ice cream too, mixed with experimental flavors (pear gorgonzola, blue moon, guiness stout, pineapple habanero) as well as traditional flavors.
The coffee they use (a local roaster called «Passport») is the best coffee I’ve tasted in my life. I love black coffee, so I’m partial to bold dark roasts or blends that are just flavorful, and their iced americano has hints of toffee that make for a great tasting drink.
I’ve tried a few of their breakfast and lunch dishes too and have been happy each time. Their breakfast burrito is hearty and their wraps are outstanding. I like their lox’n’bagel dish better than einstein’s and I also like that one of the side dish options they give with your lunch is a greek yogurt & fresh fruit side.
The staff is very friendly and creative with their dishes, and it’s a great place for breakfast, lunch, coffee or dessert.

This place is a cute little gem. Excellent service!!! Just needs a little cleaning in between customers. Table was a little bit sticky.
Red Velvet Ice Cream was da bomb… It was cream, yummy, and just chocolaty. Very good.

Chocolate cover bacon… on a stick? yes please! Not only that but they have varieties of chocolate/​bacon covered goodness!
Then there is also, Ice cream tacos; chocolate covered cherries… UGH what am I doing here reviewing this place?! I should be there… NOW!

Where Pinkie Danced…
It’s 10:30 P.M. on Friday, October 1. We got an ice cream cone at Pink Spot, open ’til 10 P.M.
Those are important words in central Phoenix on Friday night. Not only did we get ice cream, but I walked past people sitting out front at the café tables, sitting inside on the sofas, and sitting at the big table. Friends, lovers, mates, maybe neighbors. All talking, enjoying each other’s company, the ambiance, and the treats. A fine fall evening in central Phoenix. The Pink Spot can’t be mentioned without a word on it’s tomato sauce and cheese slathered siamese twin, Z Pizza. The Z was open, the lights bright, and if I wanted pizza, I could have some. There’s plenty of tables in the Z for overflow from the Pink.
Most of central Phoenix shuts down after work, rolls up the sidewalks, driving home to Gilbert, Buckeye or Anthem. It’s a great thing to have a cozy, chatty evening spot with great ice cream and ice cream treats, and former Starbucks baristos steaming up all they bring to the coffee arts. Pink Spot’s a people magnet.
Did I mention way-​to-​work breakfast meals, and again, coffee? They open at 7 A.M. Give yourself a little wait time and the Pink Spot will take care of your hunger and caffeine needs, sending you happily energized and your fast broken down the road of life.
Phoenix is trying to coax its central core into a more vibrant, attractive, alive-​at-​night city. The Pink Spot is one of the places that’s starting to happen. About 9:50, the last trash bag hits the dumpster and by 10 you’ll have to go somewhere else, like going home and Unilocal*ing. Maybe Pink Spot would consider staying open until 11 P.M. on Friday and Saturday nights — in the Fall, Winter and Spring. Then I might bring Sweet D by on a date.