Twistee Treat

This place is adorable. It looks like a big ice cream cone! The kids that work there are friendly. They offer an amazing variety of flavors. The German chocolate flavored ice cream was incredible! Nice waffle cone too.
The tip jar sign was creative and made us laugh. It said: «Every time you don’t tip, a unicorn dies…» and it had a picture of a crying unicorn.

Over priced, poor service, and bad tasting homemade ice cream. First the sign pricing was ²⁄₃ the price they charged me. The sign pricing is misleading. Of course they do not tell you the price until they make the sundaes and put them in your hands. Then the taste was awful. The chocolate peanut butter ice cream had globs of peanut butter that tasted like it was made from 50 year old peanuts. Stale and nasty. Told the person working there and there response was to tell me it was freshly made. Two glasses of water and still can’t get that flavor out of my mouth. Will never go back.

We stopped for a quick bite to eat and an ice cream, and it was great as always!
The hot dogs were very good and served on a fresh bun with just the right condiments. Our french fries were excellent too!
The topper was a seasonal pumpkin soft-​serve ice cream on an oreo cone. It’s great to be a kid again and lap up every drop of excellent ice cream on a warm day!

Horrible customer service! won’t go back!!! Not worth any stars. Most important this is customer service and they don’t have it.

My family and I are visiting from Texas, I did a Google search for places to eat near our rental home and Twisted Treat came up… we’ve driven by several times and seen a lot of people at their establishment and had good reviews online, so before heading to the beach we stopped by for a late lunch/​early dinner. BIG mistake! My sister ordered a burger well done, the guy says «that’s all I cook is well done» Great cause that’s what I want, was my sister’s response. He then asks if we’re all ordering food (there was 3 of us) my sister says, yes, do people not order a lot of food here? He stated, no were not equip for food orders, «that’s the owners fault» he added so I’ll be sweating in the back and leaving this poor guy up here alone (the other employee). My son ordered a pepperoni pizza and we were advised «we actually don’t sell pizza here» my son ordered a corn dog and I ordered a plain burger and an order of cheese sticks. My total was $ 15 and some change. We didn’t wait extremely long for our food and our order was handed individually not in a bag. We decided to come back to the house to eat rather than sit outside … SOOOOO glad we did. The burgers were completely red in the middle and the cheese sticks weren’t cooked all the way so we had to finish cooking our meals!!! Our intention was to go back for dessert after the beach but needless to say we will not be returning for anything here.

Simply amaZing little ice cream shoppe right off the beach. If you like hot food and cold treats this is the place for you! Bring the family and sit under the umbrellas and enjoy! Just on the north side of the beach close to Wings you can walk there and find your bliss.

This ice cream shop gets an award for being the best looking shop on Gulf Blvd. The building itself is in the shape of an enormous ice cream cone. It’s tacky! It’s gaudy! It’s exactly perfect!
Their ice cream is OK. They specialize in custard style ice cream and throw in one of 66 flavors. If you ask me I’m fine with just 10 flavors. I don’t see why a place needs 66 flavors. Why not 67?

Twistee Treat isn’t cheap, but the offerings are tasty and the ambiance of outdoor dining next to an ice cream shop shaped like a cone can’t be beat. It’s a tradition. They have lots of flavors now, waffle cones, soft-​serve, chocolate dipped, sprinkles, traditional ice cream and shakes with all sorts of mix-​ins. There’s no limit to how much you can spend or how big you can go. So go BIG!!!

Love this place! They have an overwhelming amount of flavors and yes, the menu is a little confusing. The staff was very helpful and friendly.
I had the hard ice cream — chocolate and peanut butter with a wafflecone (dumped in a cup because I cannot be trusted with ice cream cones in the heat!). It was delicious. My husband had the butterscotch soft serve and that was also really good.
Prices are a bit high but it was worth it for a little splurge on vacation. We’ve been a few times — and we’ll go back again!

Garbage, I asked for a cheesecake flavor cone and it taser quite similar to vanilla flavor, ¡what a disappointment!

Best ice cream around!!! They stay open later than most ice cream shops, and their prices are reasonable. My son loved the building being shaped as an ice cream cone. Their typhoons are great, but their dipped cones are superb! The chocolate coating was so thick that the melted ice cream didn’t even leak out!

You gotta love a place shaped like an ice cream cone. The ice cream is very good. Our son who doesn’t like anything insists on Twistee Treat for dessert every night. Always service with a smile and don’t forget to leave a tip our some poor unicorn gets it. This was the last business we visited before flying back to NYC. Thanks for making our son happy.

This place is a blast. How can you not like a place shaped like a giant ice cream cone? It is just very campy. The soft serve ice cream is pretty good, but not really much different than Dairy Queen. We stop by from time to time. It is a nice treat after being out on the beach.

Place has been around for a very long time; I remember going as a kid. In any case, not a whole lot to it; it’s a giant ice cream cone selling ice cream. What amazes me is how many ice cream places there are in the few miles that make up St Pete Beach and they all seem to remain in business. I come here for the sake of nostalgia but it’s never disappointed from a taste perspective either. They’re open a little later than most beach businesses too so great for late night sweet tooth cravings.

Great treat just blocks from the beach. Many, many options but you must get your home made ice cream in a pretzel cone. Outside seating serves hot dogs and ice cream treats only. The building looks like a giant soft serve in a cone. Every bite is worth it — enjoy! Oh yeah it takes cash and all cards too.

This is our home away from home ice cream destination. If you like blizzards this place will make anything you like. They also have countless flavors for their soft serve. Their service isn’t the best, but as far as the ice cream goes, this place cannot be beat!

This is a hot spot for all on St Pete Beach. The service is wonderful, but I think it is overpriced. However, we are a destination vacation location so all prices are a bit more. Great taste and the cones were fresh. What more could you ask for. Grab your dessert here!

On a mission to indulge the cravings…
I haven’t seen a Twistee Treat in a long while. I love their soft ice cream.
This time I tried the Pistachio yogurt on a cake cone.
As expected — totally deeeelish!

I’d just like to comment on the service etc.
According to the Unilocal page, this location closes at 11 pm, but when we arrived at 10:36, the employees were already closing up. They were obviously annoyed by our large group, and were not at all accommodating. I understand that 14 people asking a million questions about ice cream can get annoying, but paying customers are paying customers. At 10:50 the employees put up the CLOSED sign, rolled down the blinds and started spraying the ground and tables (where we were all sitting!!). If they wanted to communicate their immaturity and their desire to get the heck out of there, they definitely got the point across.
On another note, there are a ton of signs in the windows featuring different flavors, toppings, cones etc; BUT this was more confusing than helpful. They don’t update the signs based on what’s in stock.

It looks like ice cream, and it SELLS ice cream! How cool is that? And it’s goood ice cream. But its pricey ice cream– and the teeny-​boppers that staff it don’t deliver on what the menu promises. Cherries, wet nuts, whipped topping– all things promised via menu on our one or more of our sundaes, yet sadly missing when we ate them.
The sundaes we had were quite yummy, with quality toppings– but when you pay 7 buck+ for a sundae, you want all that’s promised!
Docked 2 stars for that.