Treatbot

Creamy ice cream w/​interesting flavors. Ended up getting the waffle cone ice cream. Creamy and not overly sweet. Cool concept and that it is served through a truck, which is located inside a building. Would come back to try some of their other flavors!

The earl grey ice cream was OK. I found nothing special about it.

I’ve had really good ice cream and gelato over the years, and this doesn’t cut it. Somewhere above baskin Robbins but not even as good as cold stone.

I got the Eastside Horchata and loved every bite! It was so creamy and I got a really nice size portion for a single scoop! The guy working was also super awesome. A+ for customer service.
Next time I have to plan ahead so I can take a pint home.

From out of town, first time here and was excited to check out local places like San Pedro square market. Saw reviews for this place and ended up getting a pint of Ube and Eastside Horchata. Both were good! Only 4 stars cause sever behind the counter could’ve been a bit more friendlier, service with smiles are welcomed :)

Didn’t realize there were 2 pages for Treatbot until I checked in on this one… so here’s a copy/​paste of my other review!
Always great! There is never a lack of selection and the quality of their ice cream is top notch. The 408, what I would consider their signature flavor even though all of their other offerings are super unique, is my standby when I’m feeling lazy and don’t want to choose.
The staff is super friendly too! Sometimes you’ll wait in a long line for your treats, but it’s so worth it… I can also say from experience that their karaōke is really fun if you are in the mood for some weeknight embarrassment.
Pro tip: They validate parking if you make a purchase over $ 6!

Not your typical ice cream shop ordeal. Treatbot has the whole ice cream truck appeal going on with a touch of modern sass, – you won’t find your basic display of flavors here. Though their ice cream selection runs shy, the taste, unique flavors, large portions, and overall presentation makes coming back an easy steal!
I ended up trying the 408 and thai tea. The 408 tasted more like coffee than it did chocolate, but who can complain about that? (coffee lovers unite!!!). It was just the right amount of sweetness despite there being caramel in it. As for the thai tea… as good as it gets! I’ll definitely be back to try their other flavors!
BTW, I stopped by on a Saturday night promptly ten minutes before their closing time at 11pm… and the server was still gladly happy to serve me ^_​^
PROS:
–affordable ice cream (score!)
–3.50 for one scoop, 5 for two scoops
–INDOORS!
–plenty of tables, seats, and restaurants surrounding Treatbot
CONS
–little ice cream selection)=

I really wanted ice cream and Jimbos was closed down the way, next best thing… Treatbot!
The ice cream was quite tasty, our favorites were the 408 and The Mountain (chromatic coffee flavor) both of which were creamy and flavored quite subtly. I personally was not a fan of the horchata flavor however. It left a slickness on the tongue like milk I really disliked.
The service during the visit fantastic and friendly and I would probably come back even though Treatbot wouldn’t be one of my top three (Bi-​Rite, Willow Glen Creamery, Jimbos) for the Bay Area.
I will say I’ve been to San Pedro Square quite a bit and while I’m not an ice cream girl the Treatbot section is a bit… cluttered? It really does look like an alley, or a messy street with the boxes not all the way under the truck. It’s never beckoned me to try their ice cream even a smidge because it just looks a bit unprofessional.
Not bad for a late night ice cream run, but I think I prefer Jimbos

San Pedro Market is very hip and the place to be. Apparently famous Youtubers go here. Treatbot has delicious ice cream and cookies. The horchata ice cream was delicious and not super sweet. Since it was my first time having horchata ice cream, it’s become one of my favorite ice cream flavors overall. It’s a novelty you won’t find in supermarkets. I would take home a year of this stuff if I could. I would come back to try their ice cream sandwiches next time.

Small selection, but they’re gourmet flavors at a reasonable price with a decent amount in each scoop. I’ve been back multiple times, trying the Thai tea flavor, the horchata ice cream with waffle bits, and the lady Godiva flavor, which is cherry flavored with Nutella swirls. Great employees, great concept. I plan to come here whenever I’m at San Pedro square.

I love love love their different flavors!
Horchata and this Lavender Honey are my favorite
Horchata– If you do not know what horchata is then you live under a rock and I do not wish to explain
Lavender Honey– I will compare this flavor to green tea ice cream :)) Fave!!!

I’m feeling pretty mehhh about this place. My husband and I were in town for the night and wanted a tasty treat after dinner. Cue: Treatbot. super cool little truck INSIDE the market?! We’re there! Unfortunately it was underwhelming.
There were two guys ahead of us in line so that gave us time to figure out what we wanted. The guys walked away and the girl taking orders was literally just staring off into space. She’d occasionally look around but never down at where customers might be standing. Eventually my husband got her attention and we ordered. He got the vanilla (whatever name it had, I can’t recall) with chocolate chip cookies as a sandwich and I got one scoop of the Mexican chocolate. His he said was pretty good and the cookies were chewy and tasty. Mine tasted good enough but it looked like it had been scooped hours before and just left to sit in the freezer. It had a tiny bit of freezer burn on it and did not have the most appealing texture. I got about ²⁄₃ of the way through it before I gave up on it.
If I find myself back in San Jose, I will try out any other ice cream before coming back to this one.

The ice cream it’s good but the service was awful! The last two times I went the same guy was working. He hardly greets you as a customer. Is not friendly and ultimately has turned me off to the establishment entirely. It’s too bad. When they had banana cream pie ices cream it was amazing, but haven’t seen it since. The first time I came here the woman who helped me was very pleasant. But the last two times it was this guy who wears a black beanie. The first time he let me state my order all the way through and only then told me the freezer had an issue that day and the ice cream wasn’t frozen. It would have been nice to know before I got my entire order out, our better yet closer if you aren’t serving. The second time just now, I wanted a flavor they no longer had and instead of saying something like ‘sorry sir we don’t have that one can I make a suggestion for you’ he just said we only have what’s on the board and looked like he had an attitude that came across like it was an overwhelming burden to speak that much to me. There are plenty of other places to get sweats in that building, don’t bother with this place unless you like being treated like crap.

Reverting my review back since Treatbot got rid of that stupid ticket system. Thank you San Pedro for addressing this.
Awesome ice cream, unique flavors. My only complaint, make the 408 more readily available!!! My friends and I always want this, but it often sells out. This has got to be my favorite ice cream in the Bay Area, the texture is smooth and creamy, not too firm either, the way ice cream should be. Even if you take home a pint, it’s still soft right out of the freezer. I actually haven’t had too many of their flavors, but my favorites are the jackfruit and the 408 (chocolate ice cream with fudge and oreo cookies I believe?). Anyways be aware that no matter where you find this truck, the flavors change around, but despite this minor inconvenience, their ice cream can’t be beat!

Pretty tasty flavors.
408: The ice cream itself was pretty mild but nice n creamy and smooth. The flavors relied heavily on the little bits mixed in which was yum.
Eastside Horchata: This went surprisingly well with the 408 above. Tasted just like a frozen horchata. This was my favorite. I love when an ice cream tastes just like a frozen version of something else. This is it! Very very good! I’ll come back just for this! Wonder how the horchata is on the westside? Hmm…

Love the 408! Reference picture! It was my first time here and I was originally looking for a malt at this place but it’s only ice cream! The 408 exceeded my expectations and made me forget about my malt. Portion looked small but was definitely the right size! A perfect way to end a meal with a dessert like the 408!

Unique flavors that change daily. $ 3.50 gets you a generous scoop (a.k.a. a Treat scoop).
My boyfriend and I tried Ube (purple Japanese yam) and Eastside Horchata. The Ube flavor taste was spot-​on and the Eastside Horchata was cinnamony goodness.
Can’t wait to come back and see what other flavors they have on display.
Located inside the San Pedro Public Market building.

Love their horchata ice cream. It’s better to get the ice cream here compared to their trucks because the scoops at this location are actually cold. The food trucks just don’t keep the ice cream cold enough and the ice cream melts super fast. It was nice to actually enjoy a frozen scoop of ice cream to enjoy the flavor of the creamy horchata.
Overall, great ice cream (when it’s cold). I love my ice cream cold, not mushy, and I hate it when my ice cream melts before I can eat it all. I like the 408 as well but I always recommend the horchata. It is on the pricier side but their flavors are worth it.

The dairy free ones always surprise me, I love the strawberry basil and the rose ones! It’s a go-​to place whenever I’m in San Pedro.

Oh, yes, TREATBOT, you’re SOOOOOO good.
You make me happy, even though you make me fat.
I love you, I want you, I think about you all of the time. I like your 408, your horchata, the cookie monster, the german chocolate cake, ump. it’s all so very nice.
Call me.

AMAZING ICE CREAM! Would recommend to anyone in the area!
This little ice cream truck/​stand is located in San Pedro’s Square Market in downtown San Jose and you can park across the street for I believe $ 5, but if you make a purchase of $ 6 or more at Treatbot you get parking validation. A single scoop is $ 3.50 and double scoop is $ 5 if I recall correctly.
Came here with my cousins and a cousin’s friend on a Saturday night after visiting Carmel. We got 2 scoops of the 408 (caramel ice cream, fudge, and oreo cookies), a scoop of Strawberry Fields, and a scoop of the Coffee ice cream. believe it was Vietnamese coffee flavored. The Strawberry Fields and Coffee scoops tasted like fancy ice cream. the 408 is unique and a must get when you visit! The consistency and creaminess of the ice cream was unparalleled. Excellent texture, taste, and intense flavors. I’m a fan!
For the amount of ice cream, it does seem a little pricey but what do you expect in the East Bay area.

Although, I’m lactose. I still wanted to try this place out. I never been to this part of San Pedro Square. So after I went to a Unilocal elite event, I decided to check the place out with a few people from the elite event. I tried the Eastside Horchata single scoop. It was pretty tasty. I would come back, or tell other people about this place. Decent pricing for a single scoop.

Came here after a Unilocal elite event and thought the ice cream was just ok. Cute concept with the make shift ice cream truck. Would i come back? Sure, ice cream is ice cream.
What i had…
408 (vanilla, carmel, fudge): (³⁄₅)
Milk chocolate (⁴⁄₅)
Overall too creamy for me.

Double scoop for $ 5? Hell yeah. The prices here are good, but the flavors are even better.
I’ve consistently been coming here getting the eastside horchata and the 408, which is a caramel ice cream with fudge and oreo cookie pieces. So friggin good. Sometimes I find myself coming to the San Pedro Square Market just to come here.
Anyway, the establishments at the market are now validating parking passes and not some machine. Therefore, it’s up to the worker’s discretion to give you validation. For validation from Treatbot you need to spend over $ 6… but double scoop is $ 5.44 w/​tax, weeeeeh. Buy a cookie or something.

The Eastside Horchata tastes exactly like what horchata would be as an ice cream. It’s also very soft and silky looking. The texture reminds me of the nitrogen ice cream. The mango is good but the horchata steals the show.
The vanilla is always my go-​to when I can’t decide on anything else. It’s rich and creamy.
It’s $ 5 for two scoops. It’s about average pricing for ice cream but you’ll have trouble finishing it anyway. The scoops are generous and are gorgeous.

5÷15÷15: Decent ice cream, ordinary cookies. Definitely over hyped. I would say there’s some of the Diddy Riese syndrome going on, if you’re familiar with the famous ice cream parlor in SoCal – fun ice cream for not too much dough, though in this case not as cheap as Diddy. Apparently the flavors are hit and miss too…
1. Doublescoop $ 5…
1a. Ube (ooh-​bay) purple yam: I would say this is a milkier, creamier, smoother version of Asian taro ice cream. I liked it. I’m not a huge fan of taro ice cream, but I do prefer this flavor to it. ⁷⁄₁₀.
2a. Stonefruit Sorbet 21+: Fail. Surprised they even put this up. The 21+ is because it supposedly contains North Coast Gran Cru beer – and though I don’t taste the beer, I think this ultimately made the sorbet suck. I tried making a few grand marnier ice creams before and when I try to put in too much alcohol the ice cream turned out less creamy and smooth, and just didn’t have an appetizing texture. That’s what this one is like – chunky, icy, and just not good. You get some peach, citrus, and… rind. Yeah, no good. ³⁄₁₀.
2. Cookies (Chocolate Chip) $ 1.25: Got 2 cookies for the price. The cookies are very ordinary. Maybe even slightly stale. Absolutely nothing special about these cookies. ⁵⁄₁₀.
So, really, one failed flavor. Worse-​than-​costco cookies. Like Diddy, the ultra-​high rating of 4.5 is probably just for the fun, and not much else. Well, Diddy’s cookies are better too.
³⁄₅.
#icecream #sorbet

This place has delicious ice cream and it’s relatively cheap too. I had the Horchata snickerdoodle ice cream sandwich /​double scoop of sriracha chocolate caramel and it came out to about $ 7 – 8 total for huge servings that I wasn’t able to finish. The horchata snickerdoodle ice cream sandwich was a gem but definitely a little too sweet so I couldn’t eat the entire thing without suffering from a diabetic attack. I’ll be back to try the ube the next time I’m in San Jose.
Parking is a pain and it’s in this shady food plaza smack dab in Downtown SJ.

The 408, Horchata, and Ube
makes me want to come here because I’m a foodie
The flavors are great, and the price is not bad
Think this place is here to stay, it’s not a trendy fad
The ambiance is legit, cool and hip people here
They be consuming large amounts of food, ice cream and beer
Really liked this spot. The ice cream is tasty and I really liked the ube. The waffle cone is «good», and the ice cream solid, but in terms of the 3-​star review, if it only tasted a bit better, a little more «awesome» for the price, then I’d give it more stars. The 408, though good, tasted like any kind of ice cream you’d get elsewhere, sort of like a mocha almond fudge. Though again, the ube was good, but not good enough to push it to the 4^th star.

This place is yummy! And it’s in the perfect location, with a decent price, courteous service, and the flavors are unique.
My favorite flavors are the horchata, honey lavender, and thai tea. A far cry from the quintessential strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla, but it works and it’s perfect!
The cones are ok, I go with the sugar cone. It’d be nice if they offered a waffle cone… *hint hint*

Short and simple:
1) Service is always awesome and quick!
2) 408 and Irish Dream are an excellent combination
3) Treatbot offers that small amount of sweetness that you want after a delicious meal.
If you are in San Pedro Market, you must get ice cream here!

Treatbot, the perfect ice cream truck that is located INSIDE of a building???
After following Google maps, I finally located Treatbot! I was one of the rookies who kept looking up and down the street for an ice cream truck, but couldn’t find it. After reading the address for the last time, I figured it had to be inside of the building I kept circling.
Anyway…
I’ve been to Treatbot a couple times, and I’ve had «Milk and Cookies» ice cream, and «408» ice cream in a cup. «408» is my favorite thus far, as it has a unique taste that I haven’t had before, while «Milk and Cookies» is basically cookies and cream, which you can find anywhere.
Due to Treatbot being located inside of San Pedro Square Market, you get a great view of other eateries that are reasonably priced.

Once I saw the mouthwatering Thai Tea, Horchata, & Lavender Ice Cream photos on Unilocal,I immediately «Bookmarked» and knew I just had to try this place out. My BF took me here for my BDAY weekend even though he wanted boba (thanks babe!), and I’m so glad that he did because the ice cream was so creamy and just full of deliciousness!
I decided to try the Graham Cracker+Cream & Pumpkin Spice Ice Cream (2 huge, generous scoops for $ 5). It was totally worth the long walk from the parking garage! Prior to coming here, I didn’t know that their flavors vary daily so I was kinda disappointed they didn’t have the flavors I was looking forward to trying in the first place. My BF wanted to try the Coconut ice cream but the employee kindly told us that it was too frozen and would’ve taken longer to thaw. At least she tried to scoop it to begin with, and was being honest.
They also serve their ice creams in waffle cones or cookies (3 diff. types of cookies: Snickerdoodle, Choc. chip, forgot the 3^rd one). I tried my BF’s «408» ice cream sandwich and it wasn’t bad, but the cookie wasn’t as soft & chewy as expected. Maybe it would’ve tasted better with a different cookie?
My only recommendation is that they post on social media what their flavors of the day are. Other than that, I would definitely come back and try other flavors here!