Good but basic soft serve…read more Quick review for a quick service. Place is a little out of the way, served from the back of a gas station off the main road. The menu is very simple, and the price is okay. Quality of the soft serve is actually pretty good. The trouble is location. Its identity will always be tied to the gas station and the maintenance of the grounds is good for the lawn but not the building it occupies. So the lawn looks good and the quality of the ice cream was good but the building does give off a vibe. It's good and functional soft serve, but that's all.

Menu is very basic but the staff were great. Ice cream was delicious. We did the ice cream nachos…read morewhich was a great treat and a swirl in a cup with fudge. Basic ice creams, basic flavors but price was right. Place is attached to the gas station with its own dedicated window. Wouldn't go out my way for the ice cream but hey if I'm in the area and wanted a good treat. This would take my money.

My son enjoyed his cone from the creamery after a busy day of mini golf and digging on the bobcat…read more It's so convenient to have this on site. It's very cute and clean with a bunch of tables with umbrellas. Lots of flavors to choose from too!

Great spot for a cool treat. Many flavors of ice cream and italian ices. They also offer…read moreinteresting combinations of both (we got the 4th of July themed ice cream and ice). Plenty of parking, nice outdoor seating options with umbrellas. It's next to a dinosaur themed mini golf place (was not yet opened when we stopped). Very conveniently located to I-84 - for us it was definitely worth the stop driving back from Massachusetts.

Love this place and the kid size portion is perfect as a treat. Varieties of hard and soft serve as…read morewell as non dairy options, something for every ice cream lover!

The selection of flavors is smaller than some other ice cream shops. However, the available…read moreflavors are creative and very well executed. My peanut butter swirl hard ice cream was loaded with peanut butter. More than any other similar ice cream I've eaten. They have nice outdoor picnic tables to eat there. There is a playground nearby. The staff turns over the orders very quickly.

This is a very nice ice cream shop with outdoor tables. The strawberry with hot fudge sundae is…read moreexcellent so is the coffee ice cream . Staff is very friendly and efficient. Definitely stop by a decent menu to choose from Thanks Chris M

Stopped in on a whim. Friendly service, yummy milkshakes, and a great place to just chill.read more

My niece graduated from high school 2021. I surprised her with NANA'S Ice Cream Truck! The price…read morefor rental and ice cream is extremely reasonable. Diane and Paul Albrecht run the operation and they're great. Please give them a try: 860-620-3355 ; Email :. nanasicecreamtruck@gmail.com I do plan to use them again!!?

Going to Shady Glen is a bit like stepping back in time. It's that 'old timey' ice cream parlor,…read morefrom the decor to the servers (outfits), to the food. Nostalgia. Memories. A stop on the way back to UCONN when I was a student there. The "go to" place after our kids' school events. Shortly after we moved to Manchester, over 38 years ago, the restaurant was closed for renovations. We were looking forward to seeing the revamped restaurant. Well, we were even more surprised when we stepped in the door - nothing had changed! Cleaner, perhaps new Naugahyde on the seats, but that mural on the wall was the same - those elves were timeless. When you sit down, you get a small paper cup of water. The menus are on the the wall - soups, sandwiches & ice cream. I'd always heard they had a patent on the way their cheeseburgers were made - a burger topped with crispy cheese. A must have. Prior to Covid, the condiments tray had ketchup, mustard & chopped onions. Now, there are packets of the condiments. No onions though. We shared an order of fries - crispy & good. I was too full to have ice cream after our meal, so we brought a half gallon (yes - a real half gallon) of our favorite flavor home - chocolate almond joy. Yum! Note - you need cash. No cards. There is an ATM in the restaurant.

Every once in a while, I don't connect with a place that many people love. Shady Glen was one of…read morethose spots. But I'm always open to the idea that maybe I didn't get it right, and I eventually return. I recently visited the original Shady Glen, and I'm now a fan. This was my first visit to the original location, and perhaps that makes a difference. My other two or so visits were to the now closed other Manchester location. The atmosphere is a 50's style ice cream restaurant that also serves food. There are some tables. Some counter seats. Workers in old timey outfits. Definitely an old school vibe that they pull off. Service was friendly. I visited with two goals. Try a hot dog. And eat an Original Bernice Winged Cheeseburger. Probably the most famous burger in CT. SG uses CT's Grote & Weigel hot dogs. They split and grill them. They served mine sort of sandwich style on a long bun with a toothpick in the middle. Definitely an original presentation. They have no specialty dogs beyond the crispy cheese they also serve on the burgers. They do give you quality packets of relish, mustard and ketchup and a small container of chopped onions. I added all these ingredients. And it was a tasty dog. The Original Bernice Winged Cheeseburger arrived, looking like a monarch, sitting on a throne of crinkle cut French Fries. The crispy cheese design, with all those angles extending from the bun, is an engineering marvel. There is melty cheese too. The burger looked about like a quarter pound. Tasted good. I added lettuce and tomato. Both fresh. A one of a kind burger that has thrilled people for Decades. The fries were fine. The Cole Slaw, however, was top tier. There was more than just thin chopped cabbage. Kale maybe. Some other stuff. The dressing was tasty, and the slaw wasn't overly dressed. Shady Glen is a CT classic. Indeed, an American Classic according to James Beard. Who can argue with that? 4.25 Stars

Such a fun spot!…read more This farm is small, but very friendly! While I stopped in for some yummy ice cream (chocolate cake ice cream was amazing) we even saw a show! The cows were being herded back into their barn and the farmer was incredibly friendly talking to us about the cows. Usually when you stop into a farm, the farmers tend to ignore you, however I felt I was welcomed into their property with open arms. I enjoyed the ice cream and the photo ops! Make sure to stop by here for refreshing treats and some cute pics!

An ice cream friend recommended Fish Farm for ice cream, but I think more specifically for the farm…read moreatmosphere. Definitely lots of cool farms vibes. Barns. Fields. Chicken coups. You can see the cows. Ice cream-wise, it's always a pro move to show the cows. You feel like you're getting the best quality fresh milk and cream. And the ice cream was certainly fresh and had good texture. Fish had a limited selection of flavors for scooping. Maybe around 8. None of them really jumped out to me. I ultimately ordered two scoops. Peanut Buttercup. And Banana Chip. The ice cream flavors were pretty good, but they didn't really pop for me relative to other similar flavors I've had from other spots this year. There were plenty of tasty mini peanut butter cups (the highlight of either flavor). There weren't many chips in the banana, and they were smaller chips than the top tier CT Spots. 4.25 Stars. But some of that was for the farm vibes.

Their butter and sugar corn is delicious as well as their celery. Both were very fresh and…read moreexcellent. Service was also great!

Perfectly fine soft serve…read more This is very much a place you take the little ones to for that quick sweet treat. They got that custom mix soft serve machine which is pretty much like a blizzard that they mix flavor concentrate into rather than mix ins. It's a decent quality soft serve base, and the price is reasonable for the area. It's not award winning or great, but it's good enough. I would skip the flavors (lots of them have the extract problem where the concentrate has too much chemicals in it which translates to the ice cream). But it's quick and decent ice cream.

Ice cream is really good. However service is not good. People outside eating ice cream yet when we…read morewalked in to get some we were told rudely " no ice cream" by the man working there. Then 5 other people walked in and were rudely told as well that the machine was broken. How was it not broken 2 minutes before?! We can understand being short staffed but there's no need to be rude. People were willing to wait however he chose to sit behind the counter and just refuse customers.

I went in and one of the employees was really nice and she lowkey looked like she loved her job and…read moreshe was so happy to talk to all the employees I believe her name was Sadie or something

My first visit at the Vernon location as the South Windsor location closed. I thought there would…read morehave been lines but it was very quick and had a variety of flavors to choose from. The Pina Colada got my interest but chose the watermelon chip. Very good decision as I wanted texture of the chips. Always a thing to add to your calendar for the 1st day of spring for free Italian ice. The store location is in a great location near a lot of stores in Vernon and very new and clean appearance.

My family and I had just moved my daughter into a new apartment and needed a refresher if you…read morewould. My oldest suggested Rita's as a great break. I was impressed with the menu and how clean the store was. Plenty of indoor and outdoor seating provided and the staff was friendly and welcoming. I ordered a combo of mango ice and strawberry gelato. Amazing combo. Would definitely recommend it. As it was my first time here I will definitely be revisiting this