On a random Monday evening after a long day at work and running a few errands. Me and my fiancé decided to make a trip to a ice cream shop. We jumped on Yelp and looked for the nearest yoghurt shop and saw La Michoacana listed as a new business with 13 reviews. We decided to give it a shot and boy were we in for a pleasant surprise. The exterior gives you the impression of a typical ice cream/frozen yoghurt shop but as soon as you walk you, you are greeted with a massive L shaped line of freezers with dozens of ice creams flavors. Flavors such as strawberry cheese cake, Ferraro Rocher, Expresso and over a dozen freshly made fruit flavors. This combined with dozens of fresh fruit topping, Doritos TacoLocos, Mangonada and so many other traditional Mexican food and drink choices make this perhaps the best location to fill your sweet cravings. We only got to try 3 flavors of ice cream, Expresso, Strawberry cheese cake and Ferraro Rocher and we both loved em. We will most certainly be back to try out other things on the menu as the place was nearly Kept with a helpful staff. Great new addition to the North west suburbs. read more

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This is the worst place to come. None of the employees wanted to be here. Nancy, the supervisor, is a rude person. Not only did she pick up the table when we were coming, she sprayed it with bleach and didn't tell us that she had it on the seat. She told us the table was clean for us to sit and after I sat down, I had bleach ALL OVER MY NEW SHIRT. Do not waste your money here. If I could give it zeros stars, I would. Terrible people, terrible ice cream and Nancy needs to get fired. read more

WHOA! Who knew this place had SOOO much ice creamy type snacks? I mean they do more than ice cream but thats all I could see as far as the eye could go... ice cream bars, ice cream sandwiches, ice cream cones, cups, smoothies, fruit cups, etc. I mean its endless! I got a scoop of their ice cream with ferrera chocolate. Surprisingly it was not very sweet at all. It could have probably done with a touch more sugar because it wasn't really that sweet for me but I still ate it. My nieces ended up with the mango bar and one with jello. JELLO? Yeah, she got jello. I wanted to say I can make you jello at home, but hey, she's 7. My brother got some tamarind shake thing which wasn't for me. He likes it. And we got some other items as well. Bring the whole family there is so much variety you are going to be able to find something for everyone to enjoy. If not, send them on their way, they're not into desserts. Will be back to try something else.. but for now gotta give the waistline a rest. .... read more

Bought my husband's first elote here and it didnt disappoint! I got the pina paletta, the mango milk base paletta doe one kid, and doe the other kid, the mangonada. This place never disappoints read more

I LOVE THIS PLACE. They have so many different options. My two favorite things to get here are the elotes and the fruit with yogurt. You can customize your yogurt the way you want. I usually put watermelon and grapes in mine, along with mangoes. It is extremely tasty and great for a late night snack. The yogurt with fruit is HUGE and can easily feed two people. I recommend getting different fruits the first time you try this so that you can figure out which fruits you like the most. Also, the elotes are amazing!! read more

Wow, I'm super excited to have a La Michoacana in the area! I have to say that for someone who is indecisive like me, the place is overwhelming! Do I get a paleta (a Mexican fresh fruit ice cream bar), ice cream, sorbet, a shake, a mangonada (a combination of mango sorbet, fresh mango, and a sauce w/ lime and chili powder), elotes, etc! I am a mango lover and had to try a mangonada and it was amazing! It is a combination of sweet, spicy, and sour. It was sooo good! I have been to La Michoacana a few times and always end up w/ a mangonada. I definitely want to try elotes or the elotes w/ cheetos...what?! The service is good. There is plenty of space inside, with some tables. Very tasty and can't wait to try some more items! read more

Awful customer service. Forcing people to wear masks and won't serve you if you dont have it - regardless of vaccines.

Pricier than other Paleterias. Great and unbeatable variety. However, there is too much sugar added to their products, the natural flavor de fruits is lots with the loaded sweetness! Will not come back read more

This location is clean. However what is normally included in your order at other locations is not here. I ordered a mangonada I had to pay extra for the mangoes and I had to pay extra for the chamoy straw. That's the whole purpose of the order. Rip off since the price here is more than the other location on Mannheim. Their selection of ice cream is not as vast nor is their food selection. read more

This place has opened up my taste buds and belly to the Mexican world. The mangonada Ice cream and drinks are out of this world. Highly recommend you try this place out. Custom Yogurt fruit creations, dozens and dozens of ice cream and fruit bars. A bit pricy read more

Got my first mangonada here, along with a spicy pineapple paleta for my husband and a Ferroro Rocher ice cream for our daughter. Soooo good-- all of it was amazing and very affordable. The perfect pick-me-up for these pandemic times. read more

My wife and I love this place. They have everything and it's always delicious. The staff is awesome!

This place is Donald Trump's worst nightmare: Mexicans selling ice cream to Muslims. Well, it's more than Muslims. In a typical evening, you'll see Indians, Polish people and locals from Park Ridge and Des Plaines coming here for ice cream, fruit popsicles, or even their fried wagon wheels with hot spicy stuff on top. Just like their location on Mannheim, this place offers a wide variety of snacks and ice cream flavors. I'd say it really starts getting busy around 9 pm. The line can be all the way to the door. What I like is that each person or group gets treated individually, going down the line and picking what they want. Just last night, I got to sample 5 or 6 different ice cream flavors since I was curious about some of the other choices besides my proven favorites I've been going for. And what are my favorites? Hard to decide. Among the popsicles: watermelon, strawberry-kiwi and the all kiwi version. Ice cream: watermelon, cappuccino, berry, and pineapple. Don't forget they also have their homemade potato chips in bags and the wagon wheels. Maybe even Flamin' Hot Cheetos with nacho cheese all over if that's what you crave. Check it out before Trump puts up the wall at this place. read more

I'm a huge fan of La Michoacana ice cream. But one of the night male workers who is in his 20s cussed at my friend in Spanish. He tried to say it under his breath, but we heard it. The La Michoacana on Algonquin in Mount Prospect is the best one, and from my understanding, it's not under the same owner. You get a lot more ice cream for the same price there too. read more

A mi me gustan los elotes pero le ponen mucho queso y parece que no saben prepararlos y hasta saben cómo si fuera de lata o congelado

The best ice cream/dessert shop. Hot Cheetos elote vs regular elote: the regular one is better. It has more mayo and cheese, or maybe the lady that made hot Cheetos one gypped me. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is because I think some things are a little pricey. But I'm cheap af so it might just be me :) read more

This place is the WORST! They do not wash their hands and they are not sanitary. I ordered corn & the cheese they put on it had mold. I could've DIED ! Do not visit this place! read more

Love the paletas (homemade popsicles) here -- an excellent assortment of flavors and very fresh. I only sampled some of the ice-creams but again, an interesting and vast assortment of flavors -- all the ones I tasted were delicious, with a couple (like the Guava being a little on the sweet side). The place itself is very clean (major plus of course) and the ladies who work here are lovely too! read more

I literally felt like a kid in a candy store here. I love the concept! I am super excited to have this ice cream shop in the neighborhood. My husband and I went there last night and decided to make it at least a monthly date night to come and try a new flavor. There are A LOT of flavors, but the guy who was helping us was very patient and let us sample a few. They also have brochures with the flavors listed and translated into English. I ended up having the Pinenut ice cream and my husband had Pistachio. He also got Mango-Chili! We will be back for sure :) read more

i have come here numerous times throughout the years and the food and service were good. i mean how can you go wrong with corn with mayo and any type of ice cream you can think of made fresh?! i will not be returning after today and they will not be getting any business from me! my sister and i went in to the shop and waited in line. we were the only ones in line. a line started to form behind us, and workers came out to serve every single person but my sister and i! the workers simply looked at us and walked away! i had to raise my voice for one of the workers, miriam, helped us. i asked her if there was a problem. she started to say that they don't speak english and did not notice a 5'8" asian girl and a 5'3" asian girl! i truly can not believe that this is something that happens in this day and age! i actually can because it happened to us today!! Update: I called and spoke to the manager and for some reason, the owner can't be contacted....fishy read more

Best place for icecream especially if you are looking for eggles options.All I icecream is made with thick full fat cream, so very creamy and delicious. My son is allergic to eggs and so we are constantly on a look out for eggles desserts, which can be a challenge most of the times and finally we found a place that we like. They have a selection of unique flavors. Mango chilli, Tamarindo, Mexican coffee, Pina cicada just to name a few. There Fresh fruit and berries chopped and added to sweetened yogurt drink with nuts and granula oats toppings is a good option parffae to begin your day! Ice popsicles of all the icecream flavors are home made and fun with kids. Reasonsonably priced and very generous servings. It has become our family favorite ice cream place. read more

Fast and good service, fresh juices and ice cream. Friendly place for family and friends, highly recommended

Very bad customer service. My family spent almost $100 dollars on in this store and when we asked for an empty plastic cup, they wanted to charge us s $2 dollars. So cheap people. Note that a bag of 80 cups in Costco is for $5. I won't go there again. read more

I always order 2 cups of corn. They ALWAYS mess up such an EASY order. 1 with everything and the other one everything no chile. How can you mess that up? Only reason why I keep coming back is because I'm pregnant and crave it. Don't know any other place that sells corn. Customer service is bad though. And they charge you extra for every little thing. I'm surprised they don't charge you to sit down. read more

This place just opened up in front of my friends apartment so we decided to try it. Sure to say we will be regulars here. Not only do they have so much variety in different flavors of ice creams and what not they are also very friendly. I was hesitant cause I wasn't sure what some of the menu said but the lady at the counter was super patient and she described everything and even told us the 20 ice cream flavors. They give you samples and you can try whatever you want. The ice cream itself was thick and delicious, not full of air like most places. You know all the ice cream served is homemade.beacuse they have a huge kitchen in the back and it just taste better. I would highly recommend this place for large groups since they have lots of seating and delicious flavors. read more

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Feels, tastes and looks authentic. Famous places with $$$ and tons of reviews are impressive but places like this feel like hidden gems. Although this is also a franchise I don't think it gets enough love. The amount of ice cream flavours is ridiculous, it puts baskins to shame. Baskin always serves you old ice cream with freezer burn but this place does not. Prices are fair for the massive scoops they give you. The service is also good, the workers are nice and patient. They could've made everything overpriced because of its unique vibe but they stayed humble and it all just adds to the experience. read more

Really tasty ice cream but the staff is soo sloooow. They need to replace whole staff with faster ppl. Should not take 15 min to serve 10 ppl. With 5 workers behind the counter. Also they need benches for outdoor seating. read more

I don't what to say about this place. The ice cream is okay to great, all at a reasonable price. The ice cream bars are my favorite with the frozen fruits. I wished their ice cream had a little more milk and cream to it. Sometimes I feel like I am eating color ice and articial flavors read more

I am really annoyed with the service and level of customer service here. I came and asked for 3 elote along with a couple other things. The employee told me it was going to take at least 5 minutes and I told her I was willing to wait. She got done and handed me ONE elote, I asked if there were two more coming and she laughed and rolled her eyes at me. She told me there was none left, and that she had to take the one I ordered from her coworker. Like she was doing ME a favor. Her coworker proceeded to make 5 more orders of elotes after my order was placed for hispanic families. Favoritism at its finest. When I asked to speak to a manager, she rolled her eyes again and told me they don't have a manager tonight and that she's the supervisor. If this is how you treat your customers this is the last time I'm coming to this place. read more

Terrible and impartial employees! We went to this store and unfortunately wasted 15 mins of our life. There was NO line and so we were standing to get a few samples before we decide what to order and the lady kept ignoring us! However when another person who was talking in Spanish came BEHIND us, his whole family got some prefertential treatment OVER us! When we got frustrated and approached the lady behind the counter and told her what she did was unfair, she pretended to not know ANY English. While her fellow employees just staring at her and smiling!! She then tells us to go behind the line and we try once more to explain her in English but she has NO clue what we are saying. We stormed out of this store. I'm going to pass the word to not visit this racist store to ALL my friends and relatives I know. I'm going to use social media as much as possible to exploit this unfair treatment! read more

Great place with SO MANY FLAVORS AND OPTIONS! I never know what to get when going in to this place but I always leave satisfied. It's just a fun place with different colors on the wall and fresh fruit and colorful fun flavors of ice creams and shakes. They also have chip snack and nachos with cheese and Mexican style corn in a cup with mayo, butter and your choice of chili powder. I've had a mangonada. Mango sorbet or choice of watermelon and/or cucumber and a sweet spicy Chile sauce. It may sound gross but it's refreshing as heck! Also they throw down with their rum raisin OH and they have a cheese flavor ice cream that tastes like a magical explosion of cheese but again it isn't gross although it sounds it. They give samples of the flavors upon request thank goodness! They also sell in ice cream bar form. If you're watching the waistline you can order a cup of fresh fruit of your choice. A plentiful amount might I add! Service is great and friendly as well! read more

Best ice cream I've ever had, and I only like gourmet ice cream. Better than cold stone . Ice cream is rich, vibrant flavors, and a lot of them too. read more

This is one of my favorite spots to grab homemade popsicles and ice cream. They have a variety of flavors, but I wish they could at least label the popsicles so I don't have to ask what flavors they are all the time. read more

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This place is a great addition to our neighborhood! Gone are the days where I would need to drive all the way to the city for some good elotes and ice cream. Went inside today after work to check it out and it was decently busy, not too bad. The man behind the ice cream counter gave me a smile and even though I wasn't sure which item was located where, he was definitely attentive to all my questions and gave me my items. I ordered the mango ice cream and fresh cut mango with chili powder and lime. All fresh and delicious. Definitely coming back again, next time for the elotes! read more

Like all other La Michoacana establishments, this one too serves great unique Ice cream flavors. However what this branch has that most other don't is the free parking. That coupled with the great ice cream make you never want to leave the place. read more

This place delivers in terms of service and quality. I'm so happy to have stumbled upon this place and the best part they don't only advertise water based ice cream but they carry it too all the places in Chicago I have checked only advertise it but do not actually have it in stock. So thank you !!! I finally satisfied my coconut water based melt in your mouth ice cream craving. read more

Poor customer service.......they were very rude.......the workers don't care if you have been waiting......portions are on the smaller side for the price read more

Love this place! So many varieties to choose from and very fresh. Customer service is great also.

This place has excellent homemade ice cream and Popsicles. I highly recommend this place!

Love there homemade ice cream! It's so close to my place and it's perfect size place to hang out with friends and family. They have plenty of different flavors to try from. They also nacho and other foods you can try. People there are so nice, they let you taste as many as you want. read more

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