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    3.0 (31 reviews)
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    Elizabeth X.

    My birthday request this year was an ice cream cake - we got a recommendation for this place from a friend. We had a good experience - they had cakes readily available the day of, and it doesn't take long for them to decorate to your liking. Everyone at the party enjoyed the ice cream cake as well - it was nostalgic of childhood. Would recommend.

    Strawberry on left and hot fudge on the right. Whipped cream and cherry please!
    Anna L.

    Solid experience at Carvel! Came in for the Wednesday sundae special (buy one get one free) and got two fairly good looking sundaes at the end. Employee also topped both off with some whipped cream and cherry cause you have to. Will most likely come back to try the other weekday specials.

    Chocolate Vanilla Twist in a sugar cone with rainbow sprinkles
    Mike C.

    Using National Soft Serve Day as the flimsiest excuse ever to go for some ice cream, I was very glad to discover a Carvel in the otherwise dessert-poor Financial District. Attached to a Subway sandwich shop in one of those really bright but somehow still depressing combo stores (more frequently seen as a Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins pair), the Carvel portion occupies the much smaller portion in the back. Though small, they still seem to have most of the great stuff you expect at a carvel, like the soft serve, some ice cream flavors including the excellent Nutella, and the incredibly sweet and tasty Sundae Dashers. In the spirit of the fake holiday, I just got a Chocolate/Vanilla Soft Serve Twist in a sugar cone with some sprinkles. The guy moonlighting as a Subway sandwich artist definitely must have been more adept at crafting subs, as he made a somewhat lazy cone, but it still tasted good of course. It's good to know this option is here when you want something lighter like the classic soft serve or a much heavier sundae or other sweet treat.

    TERRIBLE fudgie cake! This is not what it's supposed to look like.
    Joseph R.

    Worst carvel ever! I've spent hundreds of dollars ordering cakes, flying saucers and chipsters for delivery on two occasions during the last year and all of them were incorrectly made and terrible. I have been to carvel locations all across the country and they are mostly consistent. However this location "takes the cake" as being run by employees that do not care or take any pride in their work. The franchisee blames the employees but it all rests on his shoulder. If they can't make the product correctly he should be doing it himself. They have no idea what they are doing and use old products (the crunchies every time are soft and stale). I don't know how they step in business. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

    Check out these ice cream sundaes please don't be too jealous.
    April C.

    I I've been living in this neighborhood for about two-and-a-half years and this is the first time I've ever gone to the Carvel's. So I decided to take advantage of the buy one get one free Wednesday deal for Sundaes. The 'Sundaes' consisted of a cup of soft serve and one topping and they only had a few toppings to choose from. If so I'm giving this store two stars be solely on the texture of the soft serve. But the fact that this sale (FYI, a cup of soft serve with one topping out of the three toppings offered was $6.50)is a bate & switch deserves one star.

    Oreo cookie shake. Happy hour is from 2-6 MON-FRI for 1.99 #deals
    Daisha N.

    Well that was a tasty shake. Less milk dude! But totally worth 2 bucks on their happy house until 6pm... YUMM! (This was my first time eating here)

    Beautiful ice cream cake delivered at exactly the time we discussed. Way to go Carvel on John street!
    Carol M.

    Best cake delivery NYC! My daughter goes to college in NYC and I live in Florida. I wanted to do something special for her 21st birthday. After looking at ridiculous delivery fees I called Carvel on John Street. They made a beautiful picture cake and delivered it at exactly the time we discussed. The whole process was so easy and they only charged me $10 for delivery versus $40 fees at other places that I checked.

    George C.

    DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN FREE CONE DAY (hence they appended 'Cake', I guess, even though they sell other things and were nasty even to the folks who tried to pay money for their product).

    Carvelanche! I suggest cookie dough mixed with m&m's, like an m&m cookie!
    Anna F.

    This is a classic Carvel inside a Subway so clearly it smells amazing like Subway naturally does. The ice cream selection is somewhat limited as its a small location, but they had everything that my crew and I wanted so we were happy. We ordered a soft serve vanilla cone, mint chip bowl, and the carvelanche (similar to a Blizzard). The carvelanche with m&m's and cookie dough was tasty but wasn't as well made as Dairy Queen's Blizzard is known to be. My boyfriend got to the end of his cone after removing the paper cover, and it was sticky toward the bottom as if there was a lot of glue left behind from the wrapper. Clearly this is the best part of the cone, so that was a little disappointing. We'll be back probably because the location is convenient for us, but it won't be my first choice by far in the city!

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    The Evercake

    The Evercake

    4.5
    (164 reviews)
    4.9 mi
    Locally owned & operated
    Women-owned & operated

    I was buying a special cake for a very special occasion - my Mom's 95th birthday luncheon. The…read morecake was beautiful. It was delivered to me in midtown exactly as instructed but I then had to carry it to Westchester by train. I was very nervous but got it there still looking beautiful. It was a big hit and a central point in photos we took to send to other friends and family. Once we cut into it, it tasted just as good as it looked! Mom loved it, which was most important. I had a picture in my head of how I wanted the day to go and this cake absolutely helped fulfill it!

    I feel bad to write this review because I want to support a woman owned small business but...I wish…read moreI had not ordered my birthday cake from here. I was initially lured in by the good Yelp reviews. I liked that I could do everything online, I had a particular vision for what I wanted my birthday cake to look like and they communicated with me via email that could make my vision come true. I had a birthday celebration at a restaurant, which I asked The Evercake to have delivered directly to the restaurant. The delivery was smooth and the restaurant had the cake before I even got there. The cake was very cute and did look like what I had pictured. But...what I majorly disliked was the actual taste of the cake and being misled about what the contents of the cake would be. I selected the strawberry shortcake option for my cake and what I got was not what I thought it would be. I think it's quite normal for a strawberry shortcake to have like...real strawberries in between the layers. My cake didn't really have that, and if it did it was hidden in all the strawberry jam that there instead. I was not a fan of the cake texture too and the cream outside of the cake. Overall I felt so sad that I was feeding this to my friends and I told them that they didn't have to finish it because I wasn't going to either. So embarrassing :( Would you believe that this flop of a cake was nearly $200? And that's after the 10% coupon. I'm giving 2 stars instead of 1 because it wasn't completely bad, but the cake not tasting good was the biggest thing for me. I would have preferred it the other way around at least, like if the service was so bad but the cake tasted amazing, but unfortunately that was not the case for me. After digging through the reviews some more, I found that this happened to another customer as well. I wish I had seen their review before ordering a "strawberry" shortcake from here lol dang

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    Chocolate Frida Cake
    Chocolate Frida Cake
    7" Clouds & Posies cake in strawberry shortcake.
    7" Clouds & Posies cake in strawberry shortcake.
    7" Geo Prism cake in blue velvet and rock candy gems.

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    7" Geo Prism cake in blue velvet and rock candy gems.
    AnnTremet Cake

    AnnTremet Cake

    4.3
    (172 reviews)
    2.1 mi

    I'd been meaning to come here for years but for some reason just never made it over. Well, when I…read morehappened to be in the area for work I made a point to stop by and finally check it out. What a cute shop! Everything in there looked amazing honestly, a great selection of fancy pastries and croissants / normal cafe fair. I love that little Cheesecake Rabbit and I've had it before and it's particularly lovely. But this time I went for a buncha different stuff, like chestnut, mango and lychee-apricot pastries, plus a jasmine passionfruit cream croissant. ALL of it was AMAZING omg and the attention to detail! Everything is edible, everything is beautiful. The flower slightly fell off of one while the employee was putting it in the box and she insisted on giving me a new one -- nice! I appreciate that, everything costs enough it should feel special. But it's also so delicious that I don't care what it costs. I'll be back!

    I got a couple croissants to go. The interior is smaller than I expected, there's a few tables in…read morethe back and the display in the front. I had previously saw that they do afternoon tea sets but looking at the environment, I'm not sure if it's really giving that type of vibe. It's more of a casual cafe vibe to me. I got the almond croissant, pistachio, and the raspberry cream cheese one shaped into a bow. I also ended up consuming these the next day instead of fresh. My favorite was the pistachio cream croissant. I ate it cold from the fridge and the pistachio cream was so good. Not too sweet, subtle pistachio flavor, not very strong at all. It was really good tasting that I couldn't stop after one bite. The raspberry cream one was not bad but nothing too amazing. I did also consume this one cold from the fridge, I think it might've been better fresh. I do enjoy the raspberry jam bits and the cream cheese wasn't too sweet. The almond croissant was my least favorite, it was just ok. I had better almond croissants before. I did bake this one before consuming. Overall: I think the croissants were huge and fairly priced for their size.

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    View of the afternoon tea
    View of the afternoon tea
    Holiday Afternoon Tea
    Holiday Afternoon Tea
    Anntremet afternoon tea tiered stand and mousse cakes

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    Anntremet afternoon tea tiered stand and mousse cakes
    Taste Crème

    Taste Crème

    4.6
    (251 reviews)
    3.9 mi
    $$$

    I'm officially a new big fan of Taste Creme! I hosted a potluck night with my friends and was…read morelooking for a cute dessert to share. I got the cube cakes here, and despite being very distinct flavor profiles, they were all delicious. My friends and I's favorites were earl grey with yuzu glaze and the lemon olive oil with strawberry glaze. They also had vegan options which tasted just as good (and as moist) as the non-vegan. Like I wouldn't have been able to tell by tasting it. I also have had cakes from here (various friends' parties), which is how I first heard about it. My favorite cake is the Blueberry Earl Grey cake. The earl grey flavored pastries here are amazing. Such a great distinct flavor that is not too heavy and pairs well with the fruitiness of the blueberry. I also tried their strawberry shortcake matcha latte. Very very sweet, but a great pick-me-up (which is actually unlike their pastries which I'd consider to be "not too sweet" = perfect sweetness level for the Asian palate). The staff was very pleasant, and they put my pastries in different bags to note which ones to refrigerate and which are okay at room temperature.

    Got a 6" (seasonal) pandan coconut naked cake here for $77.75. It's pretty pricey compared to some…read morelocal Brooklyn bakeries/ the Korean chain bakeries. However, I find that a lot of the restaurants in LIC is on the more expensive side, so maybe this is the average cost there. Luckily, all that money wasn't for nothing. It was my first time having a naked cake, and I thought I wouldn't like it that much since I'm all about that frosting/ whipped cream. But it was perfect. The two layers of sponge cake sandwiches a thicccc layer of frosting, so it wasn't too dry. The pandan flavor came through and wasn't too sweet. Though, I do think I could get just as tasty or even tastier cakes for a lower cost. Love that it comes with complimentary candles!

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    Taste Crème
    Taste Crème
    Taste Crème

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    Carvel - icecream - Updated August 2026

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