Charly Temmel

Perfect cookie ice cream during the summer!
Step out of the shop and you find yourself with a beautiful sunset.
thanks for making my days sweeter! =)

$ 3 ice cream sandwich and my son was a happy camper.
In fact so full I didn’t hear a word out of him the rest of the walk along the boardwalk.
Service was great and they had a huge selection of ice cream and about 6 cookies to chose from, he chose m&m and reese’s with a scoop of strawberry cheesecake and loved it.
I had a bite and it was pretty good, tasty fresh cookies (reheated for a few seconds) and good ice cream.
Nice stop while in the area, cash only!

We live really close to the boardwalk and have tried the frozen bananas at many of the vendors. Charley Temmel’s has extra large bananas with double thick chocolate. Bananas are perfectly frozen so they don’t melt but are easy enough to bite. For $ 3, they are the best deal in Venice!

quality Ice cream. You can definitely taste the richness! Don’t think about it. Just get a scoop or two.

Small little hole in the wall ice cream shop right in front of muscle beach. The prices are reasonable and the ice cream was fresh.
**cash only***
Which I hate. Loose one star.

Soooooo good! True flavors and good sized servings. And great cookie sandwiches that you can custom order. They’ll make them. WILD! We’ll be back.

Have you ever been to Venice Beach? Pot doctors line the boardwalk; clans of homeless people in communes, complete with shopping cart rickshaws; panhandlers selling goods from hand-​painted sculptures to trash crafted into pinwheels; a guy holding a sign reading «Kick me in the nuts for $ 20» (true story!). My friend and I were wandering the beach and realized we were really, REALLY hungry. In the crispy-​warm California sun, we began to crave a cool treat. Charlie’s caught our eye and we headed in to find a glorious surprise: ice cream sandwiches. But not just ANY ice cream sandwich – pick your own cookie, and ice cream, and they will assemble it for you. Best part — $ 3 !!! WHAT?
A friend of ours from home had told us of this majestic wonder, so it was a stroke of destiny that we happened to wander in. Our enthusiasm definitely startled the elderly gentleman running the store. Don’t worry, he definitely liked it after a few minutes. I chose a chocolate chunk cookie with Italian chocolate chip ice cream; she had a cookie dough with chocolate chunk cookie sandwich. Both were gone in moments, a true testament to how damn tasty this was. The ice cream is all made in-​house and was delicious. The cookies were warmed up and made the sandwich STICK together. It was pretty messy and the cookies were a bit thick to eat as a sandwich, but the idea was simple yet genius. Love!

After swimming at the beach, I was able to take the chance to take a walk at the Venice Beach boardwalk when I got hungry and noticed a cookie and ice cream parlor named Charly Temmel. I have to say that this is the best ice cream and cookie place I have tasted in Venice Beach. The owners are so nice! I enjoyed the warm Reese’s pieces and m& m cookie sandwiched with cookies and ice cream, and it was so delicious!

We saw this ice cream shop located on the busy and entertaining Venice Beach Boardwalk after relaxing on the beach!
They have many different flavors of ice cream to choose from! After having a heavy lunch & snacking on some fresh fruits earlier, I decided to stay away from the fruity flavors and try their cappuccino crunch! They have different sizes of cups and cones to choose from as well! I got the smallest cup they have which was about $ 2! (Let me remind you, heavy lunch + fresh fruits = little room for dessert!)
I was satisfied with the cappuccino flavor! My friends decided to get the fruity flavored ice cream, and enjoyed their cones as well!
I was glad to have seen this inexpensive ice cream shop before we left!

I saw that this place got good reviews for it’s cookie ice cream sandwich, so I gave it a try. The ice cream isn’t bad, but the cookie was a bit on the hard side. Either way, it was pretty cheap — I believe $ 3 for an ice cream sandwich, so if that’s what you’re looking for then I’d say stop in to fulfill your sweet tooth.

Awesome ice cream. Not much else to say. Just do it.

Good ice cream. The cookie sandwich is to die for. Love that they’re making their own crepes.
Rankings 1 — 10 with 10 being the best.
Location — 10 It doesn’t get any better than being right on the boardwalk of the most famous beach in the world.
Ambiance — 7 It’s a nice little ice cream shack.
Selection — 7 Plenty of choices.
Service — 7 Friendly and helpful.
Food — 8 The best ice cream cookie sandwich I’ve ever had.
Overall — 7 Good place to cool down, on a hot summer day at the beach.

Very tasty ice cream. Smooth and creamy. Definitely recommend.

After enjoying a day walking up and down Venice beach, my friend and I stopped into Charly Temmel’s to cool down with some ice cream. This is an example of when I think the Unilocalers are wrong… I’m glad I didn’t check the reviews before stopping in.
I loved the ice cream here and what we got was definitely homemade. We had a delicious banana ice cream that tasted like banana bread and a rocky road that was filled with chunks of delicious almonds! I’d definitely return for more of their flavors and might be tempted to try the ice cream sandwich next time.
See ya there!

Here is the tragic story as it unfolded:
I get a craving for my favorite homemade ice cream
I grab a $ 10 and my sweetheart, then we make our way through the crowds down the boardwalk
We arrive at Charlie Temmel and find that my favorite flovors are missing from the case
I see an employee scooping Thrifty Ice Cream straight from the bucket into the metal pan in the display case
I say, «what the hell is going on here… he points to the woman and says, «terrible right?
I make my way over to this woman and inquire… how is it possible that Thrifty Ice Cream is being blatantly served at Charlie Temmel, my favorite local homemade ice cream shop???
All seriousness… false advertising, lying, misleading the public, illegal… and where am I to go for ice cream now
With a straight face she explains she sometimes has a hard time paying the rent and can’t afford to serve the Charlie Temmel… brand name of the store front!

Note: This is the smaller Charlie Temmel’s, further down the ocean front walk.
Short version: Their coffee is absolute watery, muddy SHIT and they don’t give refunds if they don’t feel like it, much less hear you out or offer you another product.
Longer version: Went to Venice beach and stopped in with a friend. She got a Mocha w/​chocolate, I got a Mocha w/​foam. We both burned our tongues on the initial sip, and ended up waiting until we walked out onto the beach to go for another sip. This took about 15 minutes what with checking out more of the shops and then making the trek to the water. We tried our drinks and agreed mine was the worst, but they both were the worst Mochas or anything supposedly with espresso we had ever had, and we see our share of coffee drinks. They were sooo watery, and there didn’t seem to be a trace of espresso, but instead, there was a weird unpleasant synthetic taste. possibly soap? I have no idea, but it was undrinkable).
We decided to go back later and get something else or a refund for mine, since we’d attempted to share her’s. So we only wanted a refund for the one, which I barely drank. I was a little worried that there would be a problem with the time that’d passed (about 1 – 1 ½ hours), but we’d just walked for about 15 minutes and didn’t want to turn right back around.
So, we show up later and his assistant wasn’t any help; we’d first explained the situation to him, and he tried saying that Lattes only had a little coffee. Uh, no. Lattes have espresso, and 1 shot is enough. and easy to taste. So we end up talking to the owner, who’d sold us the shitty mochas, and explain politely what had happened (I barely ever complain, yet alone ask for a refund, but this was baaad), and he laughed at us and accused us of putting water in the one we were trying to return. He said all of this without even hearing me out entirely, but didn’t care once I’d mentioned the walk back we’d wanted to avoid. Finally I just said that this was poor customer service, and that I’m in the coffee business, and we’ve refunded people who’ve come back later, regardless of whether it seemed sketchy, since the customer is always right, and it’s just plain old good business. He got angry and mocked us at the drop of a hat, what an asshole. So I said I was going to tell others about this experience, as it was all there was left to do.
Spread the word.

omg, the banana gelato is so refreshing after walking down the venice strip! ‘nuf said. do it.

(See pics)
So I have been promptly corrected gelato is really just an Italian term for ice cream. And my understanding of the lower fat content and no air were both true but they were more for the marketing scheme to promote Italian ice cream.
Walking along Venice Beach and seeing how the ice cream is laid out I immediately thought it’s gelato. Doh!
Can’t help but walked in. The sensational smell of the crepes was alluring. But the ice cream is meant to be ravished alone and in pure form. Charly Temmel, as Dormand L. pointed out, was actually at the store, which was a bit shocking as you normally would not expect a multi-​million business owner standing there serving the drooling dessert in a lazy Sunday afternoon. He never tried to tell who he was but people who have read about him can easily recognize him…
He was super nice and friendly and his fluent German brings home especially to those who are from Austria. He immediately joked only Europeans know his place and what to order such as hazelnut. I had hazelnut and tiramisu, both are subtle tastes on their own and can only be brought out with the salivary hype of sensation by really good ice cream. It’s firm but also soft and smooth on the tongue. It’s cold but firing in your mouth. The taste is subtle that you have to indulge slowly to know its existence and crave for more.
Temmel has made it right, made it heaven, made it all natural. The fact that Temmel now enjoys the more relaxing lifestyle instead of spending the crazy restaurant hours made his shop a perfect compliment to the almost hippie beachfront!
So treat yourself when you stroll along Venice Beach, instead of gobbling down those greasy hot dogs, come and take a peek at the Charly’s world.

I thought it was interesting that this store had there own ice cream. It is nicely packaged and four dollars a pint. I waited patiently in the store. The person there? Charlie Temmel… an older man acted too busy to serve me. No one else was in the store. I guess he and Arnold are friends because they are both Austrian or something. I had high expectations but thought the ice cream just tasted normal like any other brand. It was not distinctive at all. I’m going to notify Wolfgang Puck just to cause problems.

For those Pinkberry haters, you can’t go wrong with Charly Temmel… best ‘gourmet’ ice cream on the boardwalk. Great place to stop by for a cold treat while working up a sweat strolling along the boardwark. Charly’s the same guy who is a partner with Arnold Schwarzenegger on their Austrian restaurant Schatzi. If it’s good enough for Arnie, it’s good enough for me!