A very clean place and very easy to find, service was 15/10. They were very kind to my son and helped him pick out a flavor. When it came time to pay I only had card and no cash and there card machine was down that day. He literally told me it was fine and to just take the ice cream for free, (3 ice creams and a agua Fresca). The ice cream itself was fresh and reminded me of the way they make it in mexico.10/10 as well. Also as I was typing this a homeless man came in and he gave him a snow cone for free. LITERALLY AS I WAS TYPING THIS! read more

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I can't believe I've never done a review. I've been coming here for the past five years since I've lived in the neighborhood. This is a small shop with a big back area where they make ice cream magic. They have different delicious ice cream treats and at least one agua fresca at all times ranging from $2 - $5 or so but I usually stick with the paletas. They have at least theee different strawberry options and every other fruit - and some veg like avocado- don't knock it til you try it. The paletas are separated by water-based and dairy-based. Both are good. My favorite water-based: watermelon, lime, jamaica (hibiscus) and fave dairy-based: both strawberry - sooo good. Currently, paletas are $2 each with no discount that I could see. I'm pretty sure two summers ago, the dairy based were like 25 cents or 50 cents more (adds up when you buy 10 like me haha). Anyway, you deserve these frozen treats, don't deny yourself any longer. read more

Unbelievably creamy, delicious and refreshing on a 103 degree summer day. By far the best paletas I've had (including several in Mexico). Service was prompt, courteous and attentive. We are obsessed and look forward to trying them again once we are back in Fresno. We loved it so much that we immediately looked for and found a similar shop near our home in northern Virginia and can't wait to try that one too! read more

La Reyna de Michoacan - Guava and mixed fruit with yogurt paletas - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Fresno, California

This place is a gem!!! They have the most amazing ice creams...flavors you're not gonna find anyplace else. The owner is actually from Michoacán I think. I've heard that people drive up from LA just for this ice cream. I believe it! You can get scoops, but the paletas are my fave. The chocolate is the Mexican kind, not the super sweet regular stuff. Strawberries and cream, watermelon, pistachio, mango chile...make sure you take some home. You can thank me later. (Please, no comments about the neighborhood, ok?) REALLY good! Go! read more

La Reyna de Michoacan - Ahhhhh, paletas!!! - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Fresno, California

Such a Delicious refreshing treat! Best place with paletas and ice cream, aguas frescas, fresas con crema and díablitos. They have so many kinds of paletas, like tamarindo, mango, pico de gallo, corn, avocado which sound strange but are good. Mamey, nanche, coco,nuez,Jamaica, fresas con crema which is my favorite! Also the actual Fresas con creme is delicious. read more

La Reyna de Michoacan - Fresas con crema! - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Fresno, California

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Amazing flavor selection. Every fruit flavor you have ever heard of and then some. Delicious frozen bars made with milk or water based recipes. read more

Best ice cream and paletas around. Strawberries and cream for the win! Just try it.

I love the ice cream at this place. Over the past year or two, I've tried all the "unusual" flavors of ice cream there ("unusual" meaning, I'd never seen these flavors at SaveMart), like mamay and guanabana. Everything is delicious, but my absolute favorite there is the coconut ice cream. It is extremely creamy--it has that fresh, homemade flavor of really good ice cream. It is also packed with coconut. It's amazing. The other two reviewers both mentioned the service. One said the service was slow, and the other said the teenagers serving at the counter were standoffish. The service can be a bit slow, because the ice cream is great and sometimes a lot of people walk in at once. Personally, I don't find slightly slow service at a busy place to be a problem, when it's due to popularity (and not, for instance, the servers being inattentive). The people here work hard, Second, I haven't experienced the service to be "standoffish" at all. The people are perfectly nice and friendly. Mmmmmm, did I mention the coconut ice cream? read more

Amazing place for paletas near Tower District (perfect for a thrift shop break). The shop is vibrant and clean. There is seating and a gorgeous mural. We enjoyed the cookies & cream, strawberry, and corn cream paletas. All were fantastic! The strawberry and corn had frozen chunks of the fruit/vegetable so just make sure you are okay with that! We loved them! They also have paletas made with water vs dairy if you have allergies or prefer the more "American" popsicle taste. On Thursdays they have them for $1 (regularly only $2). read more

La Reyna de Michoacan - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Fresno, California

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My first time here I got some paletas and a chocolate covered banana. Everything was delicious seriously maybe delicious is an understatement! I will definitely be back to try a lot more on their menu. read more

La Reyna de Michoacan - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Fresno, California

I got the lime ice cream. It was pretty refreshing. I'd give it a 3.5 rating if possible. A little on the pricey side though. read more

La Reyna de Michoacan - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Fresno, California

Straight up home made ice cream and ice pops, made from and with real fresh fruit!!! I tried fruit with Chile ice pops, they were as expected, delicious. My friends tried other flavors and said the same thing, quality flavors!!! read more

They make the best strawberries and cream so bomb! I like they have specials on ice cream really good ice cream so many choices to pick from

A nice change of pace from the reqular ice cream and frogurt places. I've always wondered what the guys pushing the carts around were selling, now I know. I had the mexican guava palleta. The taste was pretty good, (I could really taste the fresh Guava in it), but I'm not a fan of the seeds in it. They are a little smaller than a lemon seed, and pretty hard to chew. There are so many flavors to choose from, I've got to get back there and get some more. read more

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Best Mexican Paletas in FRESNO.... nuff said! Not only do they have a wide variety of paleta flavors, but they also have chocolate covered bananas, banana splits, and ice cream cones. Yes the location is not the best with the all the homeless and mysterious people walking down the street but it is soooooo worth it! (BTW, I have absolutely no problem with the homeless people, they do not intimidate me, I buy them ice cream ^_^) If you are reading this and you have not tried this place, you definitely need to come try this place out, especially during our more than lovely hot triple digit summer weather. read more

Oh my!! What a delicious cool treat!! I love the strawberries and cream. These paletas are so yummy and the service is so friendly. They will give you samples of their ice cream that they make into paletas so you can taste. It is worth the drive to get there. You might want to bring an ice chest with an ice pack to keep them cold. read more

La Reyna de Michoacan - Paletas!! - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Fresno, California

Delicious. Fresh ice cream. The best handmade popsicles ever with big chunks of oreos or strawberry... Such a big variety of flavors. Worth every penny. read more

If you are looking for the best paletas in town, you can find them here. They have both leche (ice cream bars) and agua (popsicles). My personal favorites are strawberries and cream, cookies and cream, and pineapple. They also supply paletas to some push carts around town. The only downside is there aren't very many places to park. read more

Best traditional paletería in Fresno... I go for the Strawberries & Cream (fresas con crema). If you want to get crazy ask them to dip it in chocolate. read more

Best selection of paletas!! Some of their items you can't find anywhere else. Look forward to being on this side of town to enjoy one of their fresh paletas. read more

While camping in Sequoia National Park, we caught wind of a mythical ice cream place where people all over the world congregated. Several ladies at our campsite shared with us a glowing article that they had read about this place--the way La Reina was described it was as if one spoonful of this magical ice cream elixer could possibly make a blind man see. Soon this ice cream place became the subject of many fireside conversations. We contemplated the magnificence of all the fabulous flavors that would cool us down on a hot, muggy, summer night, and all vowed to stop by on our way back home. I love my ice cream, so stopping here despite the disadvantage of having nothing more than a name and a cell phone to locate the Paleteria, seemed to be a minor obstacle in finding ice cream bliss. I'm not familiar with the area, and given that, it took us about an hour detour to find. Once there, we entered a small ice cream shop with an overwhelming amount of choices. I definitely felt like an outsider when I had to ask about the flavors I didn't immediately recognize--flavors like Mamay, Zarzamora, Nuez and Guanabana. We ordered the Santa Maria (?) -- a waffle cone that held 3 scoops of ice cream (mango, guava, and mamey were our choices), and also ordered a dragonfruit flavored fruit popscicle. It was all very good. The teenage staff was a bit standoffish and seemed put out by all my questions (altho they did allow me to try many of the flavors, probably as a means of shutting me up), and the eating area could have been a bit cleaner (all the tables had dried food/juice/ice cream on it that I ended up wiping off before sitting down). But we came here for the ice cream, not the service or clean tables. On ice cream alone, it was good, but far from the mind-blowing ticket to ice cream shangri-la I was anticipating. Good variety, solid ice cream, and I love that its a truly authentic Paleteria y Neveria. But I probably wouldn't go out of my way again to return based on ice cream alone. read more

My co-worker brought in a chunky watermelon, milky drink of GOODNESS and offered me some. It was heaavennn. I begged her to tell me who produced such a great drink and she told me about La Reina which is quite a drive for a Clovis resident. I think I circled the establishment a dozen times before I realized where it was (this was before I had a GPS) and the place was packed! La Reina de Michoacan offers a variety of HOME MADE ice cream ranging in the craziest and weirdest flavors - did I mention they were heaven?? I wish I had a chance to stop by before moving from Cali, but they were closed for the season. I will miss you dearly! read more

Maybe the best ice cream in the SJ Valley (Sorry, Superior Dairy in Hanford but you're overrated)! Traditional flavors as well as more adventurous options (avocado ice cream anyone?). A huge variety of paletas (ice cream popsicles) with plenty of all-fruit, non-dairy choices like kiwi, guava, tamarind, and cucumber. The cajeta (sweetened and caramelized goats' milk) has been a guilty pleasure of mine for ages and makes a great ice cream topping, beating plain old caramel hands down. Cash only and a sketchy neighborhood but hey, treats this good are worth the trouble! read more

If people who lived north of Herndon would just think beyond the chain restaurant mentality every once in awhile, they would discover that some of the finest representations of regional cuisines from around the world are right here in their backyards. My first and immediate feeling upon entering La Reina was delight at seeing all of the handsome tourist agency posters advertising the beauty of Michoacan. Almost as quickly, I was struck by the delightful smells coming from this slice of dessert heaven. Today was hot and lazy and cold treats were on the menu... The only reason why this place does not get five stars is because the service on my visit today was mind-numbingly slow. The energetic owner was clearly doing everything he could to manage the hoardes of people standing in line, but to no avail. They could have used at least three more people there today just to make it run semi-decently. Trust me, with the amount of traffic they get, they would still make a killing. I hear they are planning a considerably larger location in north Fresno. Fine, but just make sure that regardless of whatever happens next, crowd control is worked out first. On to the delights...My family enjoyed everything they got (cream and water based paleterias, etc.), but the highlight was an incomprehensibly fresh and delicious drinkable strawberry sno- cone thing--which is basically a combination of shave ice, fresh strawberries, salt, lemon juice, chili peppers, and two kinds of sweet syrup. The flavors were just screaming with intensity without being spicy hot and the seemingly odd assortment of ingredients only brought out the flavor of the strawberries even more. My wife (a shave ice connoisseur if there ever was one--she holds that the guy outside the grocery store in Kapaa, Kauai is the world's best and it turns out that Lonely Planet agrees with her) claimed that this just moved to the top of her list. So yeah, look out for this place. It should be a big time mover and shaker in this city before long--once they get their legs under them read more

My favorite place to get paletas in all of Fresno. This is a must-visit location to satisfy your sweet tooth. Each of the paletas are made "100% de frutas naturales", which shows in each one of these delectable treats. This place also serves seasonal drinks and other refreshing beverages. It's a family owned place, so you might be disappointed in the hours this place is open (and some days it is closed). But I don't dock them any points because their work shines through in an institution that this city should cherish. read more

So tasty. I've liked everything I've tried, but they're not all very "dessert-y." A quick break down of some paletas: 1) Mango. I've had the water-based one, but I think there's a cream-based mango, too. It has good-sized chunks of mango and is sweet. 2) Avocado. This is cream-based, light green, and delicious. I know it sounds weird, but I think of it more as a cool snack for a hot afternoon than dessert. It is lightly sweetened, though. Also has big pieces of avocado. 3) Chile Mango. Also water-based, not especially sweet, and the spice was definitely getting to be a bit much for me by the end. But it was still delicious, and I never considered not finishing. My mom likes the strawberry (she gets a scoop in a cup, not a paleta), and for good reason--it's got fantastic flavor. Grab a cooler and some cash so you can stock up! read more

Best paletas I have ever had!! Try their strawberries and cream and the coconut one for extreme creaminess without being overly sweet. My friend liked the guava and the mamey as well. I can't wait to go back and try all the other 20 or so flavors! Beware it is cash only! read more

I have come here many times and thoroughly enjoyed each experience :-) everybody I turn onto this place does as well! It is super authentic, service has been friendly. Love the handmade ice cream and Popsicles! They also make good Mexican snowcones and milkshakes. My favorite has to be the corn popsicle, the pico de gallo popsicle, the mango and cucumber with chile, and the corn ice cream :-) no I don't come here a lot or anything LOL! Nice change is that they just started excepting credit and debit :-) read more

La Reyna de Michoacan - Corn ice cream, yes please! - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Fresno, California

This place is soooo good! Best ice cream place in Fresno! The ice cream taste like it was freshly made. I recommend mixing two flavors. I like the walnut and strawberry ice cream. read more

La Reyna de Michoacan - Cookies and cream - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Fresno, California

Thanks goodness they are open again! A real ice cream treasure in Fresno with the best paletas! I usually get the strawberry and cream paletas covered with chocolate. So good! I recommend this place to all my friends and family and everyone raves about it. Very cool shop and very clean as well. read more

They have amazing Mexican paletas and home made ice cream. It's a family paletearia so the service is meaningful and friendly. I love stopping by with my family and bringing my nieces and nephews. Their prices are really fair, I bought a dozen paletas for $18 and he even threw an extra one in for me. read more

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My best experience of a Paleta ever. We have made tradition to stop at La Reyna every time we go to the zoo when it is hot here in Fresno. All of the kinds are great! read more

In the world of ice cream, there is frozen gelatenous crap, ice cream, superb ice cream, and La Reina de Michoacan. This place is bit hard to find in Fresno as its located off CA 180 in a neighborhood that would fit the description of a bit sketchy. As for its main product, the best in the US hands down (sorry Ben and Jerrys). A wide variety of frozen ices like guava and lime (made with real fruit) and a very eclectic choice of ice creams like Soursop, Avocado, and Mamey (still don't know what this one is exactly). Extremely reasonable given the copious amounts of fresh fruits. Please note they are a cash only establishment. Plan accordingly. read more

Last summer I had an obsession craving for homemade ice cream. I scoured the web for places in the valley that made ice cream from scratch. My search lead me to La Reina de Michoacan a little ice cream and palleta shop who's name I could barely pronounce. The ice cream was so good I dragged my boyfriend here once a week for two months. The strawberries and cream ice cream was absolutely amazing, it tasted like I was eating perfectly ripe strawberries and freshly whipped cream. The Coconut ice was really good also. I could tell that the guava ice cream was fresh it had such a good flavor to it, but the seeds were a pain in the teeth. The only reason that I did not give them a five star was that they did not have many chocolate infused ice cream choices. I'm a chocoholic so as much as I like fresh flavors and tasty fruits, I need me some chocolate. As for the Palletas they were awesome. The variety of flavors is almost overwhelming. Again the strawberries and cream was my favorite with the coconut being a close second. All of the flavors that we tried were good, such as: corn, avocado, cookies and cream, and mango. The palletas are made daily and can go fast on a hot summers day. The best choice for ice cream in Fresno hands down. Fresh from scratch ice cream made with quality ingredients. It's worth the drive to the not so nice part of town to get some of this ice cream. Bring cash as it is cash only!!! read more

Best ice cream ever. You have to try their strawberries and cream. Omg. The service is also fabulous and prompt, even though they are usually quite busy. read more

Cream based pops $2 Water based pops $1.75 Super friendly staff. He named all the flavors. Sampled the ice cream and drinks to our content. Pops were delish. You can tell their ingredients were from scratch. Cash or credit (50cent fee) Great hole in the wall place. Flavors are tasty. Definite go back for sure. Seasonal store - OPEN March to October ONLY. read more

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LOVE the ice cream here. La Reina is literally in the middle of no where but their ice cream is worth the drive. It is actually a five minute drive from the zoo. Love their guava, yogurt with fruit, pineapple, and coconut ice creams. Oh, and their strawberries and cream is soooooo good. Most flavors also come as popsicles. I've been known to bring a cooler with us to Fresno so we can bring home 20 popscicles to the SF Bay Area. Why do I do this? Because the quality of the fruit they put in their ice cream is unparalleled. Sure, the Bay Area has great ice cream, but not guava. And for the unadventurous kids, they have bright blue bubble gum ice cream full of gumballs -what kid doesn't love that? One last thing, when it is too hot to eat ice cream (yes, there is such a thing), they have shaved ice covered in a fruit syrup (pineapple is my favorite). The syrup is fresh fruit cooked down in a simple syrup - so delicious and refreshing. Check this place out - it is worth the slight detour. Oh, and cash only. read more

I was searching for a Mexican paleteria in Fresno, and when I found this one I had high expectations. I must say I was disappointed. I got the coconut ice cream, and it had a weird taste, I couldn't eat it. Seevice was bad, too. One of the girls at the counter saw me and the person I was with, and completely ignored us and kept talking to the other girl working there. read more

One of the best places in Fresno for your sweet treat needs. They have a variety of different paleta/ice cream flavors. My fav is the strawberries n'Cream. You can't go wrong with any though. They also have fresh fruit servings such as strawberries with cream if you want sweet and pico de gallos if you want spicy and sour. Oh and dont to forget to try there Horchata. They have the Best! Horchata in town hands down. They also have other flavored drinks that vary from day to day such as watermelon, cantaloupe, tamarindo, strawberry, mamey. Great place! Highly recommended. A bit pricey but totally worth it. read more

La Reyna de Michoacan - a variety of pops - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Fresno, California

Love their paletas de fruita . Good price for what you're paying ! Definitely always stop by when I'm around the area