I've eaten enough scoops of ice cream to know that when you walk in at 2PM on a random Tuesday in the summer and the line is to the door, you're in the right place. When it comes to the quality of ingredients and pride in a quality product, Smiley's is it. From their fresh cream to the homemade caramel in their ice cream, it simply doesn't get any better. Smiley's is arguably the best ice cream I have ever eaten and is a place I would recommend to anyone in the area. From the cleanliness of the store, to the attentiveness of the staff, and the outstanding ice cream, Smiley's is far away the best ice cream you can find. Do yourself a favor and visit Smiley's for the best ice cream you will ever eat. read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

Staff were really nice and attentive. It wasn't very busy when we were there, but they took your order and got it out fast. Smiley's was recommended for us to try, so we had high expectations. They met our expectations, but nothing to rave about. Inside was clean except for a couple of tables that had ice cream on them from previous guests. Overall, nice place and I would go back. read more

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Fabulous ice cream shop. I got two scoops. One of salted caramel chocolate chip and the other of basic chocolate. Falcons were delicious and creamy. Prices are cheap. Lots of indoor and outdoor seating. Staff was super nice. Just overall great experience. read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

This is the best ice cream near me they always have good flavors and the flavors of the week and flavors of the month are always really good. It never really takes a long time it usually takes around five to ten minutes. Imagine having ice cream on a hot summer day this is definitely the best place to go. The only problem I have is they are always packed but they can't really do anything about that. read more

Last time I was up here was a few years ago and it was just an outdoor building where you walked up, ordered, and got your ice cream. They've really upgraded! Now there's a whole indoor area, fridges with pints of milk, and frozen treats. The weekly special looked awesome today so we all got a few scoops. Others got the chocolate caramel pretzel, but I got the orange dream and yum! read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Orange dream (weekly flavor) - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

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Amazing price and generous portions-- BEST ice cream ever!!! I wish I could've taken some back home to Florida. The shop was clean, spacious with plenty of seating & friendly staff. You can taste the quality of the ingredients. I ate A LOTTT of ice cream lol but didn't feel heavy afterwards, perfect level of sweetness. Highly, highly recommend!! read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Sooooo good!! Absolutely loved all the flavors! - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

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This place is so good, friendly small town deliciousness. The staff are so friendly, the ice cream is so delicious. A medium for about $6.50 is HUGE and I couldn't eat all of it. Oh well. It was amazing. The fresh banana ice cream is some of the best ice cream I ever had. All the staff are so friendly, nice, and helpful. The inside is clean and inviting. Wasn't too crowded when I went but it was January so it is probably more crowded in summer. There's outdoor seating too, but again, it was January. This place is amazing. Would highly recommend to everyone. Thank you Smiley's for making my trip to Bridgewater full of smiles and deliciousness and banananess. I love you forever. read more

Great ice cream and friendly staff! Must stop, right down the road, if going to Buc-ee's!

Best friend took my kids and I here for Mothers Day and I got the fresh strawberry. Absolutely the worst ice cream Ive ever had. Had no strawberry flavor whatsoever and was melting out of the small cup they put it in. Wont ever pay for this crap again. read more

The ice cream is amazing. The servers were friendly. It was a beautiful spring day on the patio.

Friendly staff, fast service, and lots of parking. The double chocolate was rich and dark and complex and worth every life-lasting calorie. Coconut chocolate chunk was good too. Boston cream a gimmick and the fresh peach tasted only of sugar. This was a nice stop for us out of towners, but only if continuing on to Dayton rather than coming from Dayton - turning left back onto the highway is a risk not worth taking for this ice cream. read more

Smiley's is a fresh cow to cup or cone Ice cream place. They are always super busy and very quick to service you, which I like because I'm always in a hurry. The ambiance is very casual and super inviting. They offer a private event space along with goodies you can buy to take home with you share. I enjoy the 2 scoop bowl the coconut almond and black raspberry - they serving size is HUGE!! But very yummy!! read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

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Smiley's is one of my absolute favorite places. I regularly would drive an hour each way to visit their shop. The flavors of the week/month are always exciting and worth stopping in for. I have multiple food allergies (including eggs, nuts) and have never felt as comfortable ordering ice cream as I do at their shop, given their extensive allergy protocols, accessible information, and knowledgable staff. My favorite flavor is the salted caramel! (Salted caramel oreo was once the flavor of the week and it changed my life.) read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

I'm originally from across the mountain and before getting married my wife brought me a here a few times and once to the old location. First off, where I'm from there is not (to my knowledge at least) an ice cream place that makes their own ice cream in house and/or uses ingredients within the same town/walking distance to the source of the ingredients! The ice cream is good but there's been one or two flavors I wasn't impressed with (they weren't bad just not my forte). Also, compared to every other ice cream place I've ever been in (not a lot just a few) this place is huge and it's beautiful!!! The staff is always friendly with one young lady once noticing my UVA shirt I had and complimented it I think. There are so many choices and different ways to get your ice cream. Because the farm where their cream comes from is so close it's almost like two local businesses under one roof. If you want real ice cream and not soft-serve then come to Smiley's. It's clean, bright and spacious! read more

Their ice cream is fabulous. So many favorites but salted caramel chunk never disappoints.

For starters the place was not busy just a few sitting inside that already had their ice creams and chatting. Walking up to register the workers were just behind the wall chatting away and not watching the front. Ordered the red velvet cupcake and at first I was asked if I wanted a bag to put it in. But no. I wanted to eat it in the establishment. No wonder they asked. It was frozen solid. Which they should have said that to let people know. Then I ordered a butterscotch milkshake. Yeah that was a weird one. Tasted more like caramel and had chucks of the odd tasting sauce. Like it wasn't mixed and or they didn't care. Not even sure what the homemade salted caramel taste like. But so far I had a waste of $15. Definitely won't be back and that's my opinion. Hopefully someone else has a better experience read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Butterscotch milkshake - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

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Just....yum. I've tried lots of different flavors here and it simply doesn't matter. Everything is delicious. Probably because it's about as farm to cone as you get. Cows the left, ice cream straight ahead! There's outdoor and indoor seating but it does get busy at times and seating can be hard to find. No matter. Mine doesn't usually last long enough to sit down anyway. read more

THE BEST ice cream!!! I love smiley's and it is always my go to place. They have a large menu with an additional two weekly specials and one monthly special. There's nothing on the menu I have tried and haven't liked. I will order quarts to bring home of my favorite flavors. Honestly come here every week because it is so good. read more

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Best ice cream in the valley. We often get a pint or quart to go. Often use fresh seasonal fruit for summer flavors

For my first trip to Bridgewater it certainly brought a smile to my face when I was told there was some fresh dairy ice cream around the corner. We had to stop by on our visit home. The ice cream was smooth, creamy and delicious! We got the Salted Caramel Chocolate Chunk, Coconut Almond Chocolate Chunk, and because we had the dog with us I couldn't resist getting the Pup Cup after spotting it on the menu! Rooney got a special treat to have his first taste of ice cream + a milk bone from some happy cows which we could spot in the distance. What started off as a cloudy + rainy day gave way to a sweet ending with some sunshine and ice cream along the countryside. Excited to come back again and try more flavors! read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Salted Caramel Chocolate Chunk in a cup; Coconut Almond Chocolate Chip in a cone; and a Pup Cup! - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

Pros: - Plenty of parking - Large indoor area - Plentiful seating inside/outside - Organization of ordering system - Cleanliness - Oh, yeah... the tasty ice cream! Cons: - Can't think of any read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Coconut Almond with (regular) Chocolate. Small size (2 scoops) - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

People always so nice and place is always clean. Best ice cream ever! So many flavors. Salted caramel is to die for!

This ice cream is the best! We had the tiramisu and German chocolate and it was perfection!

Still such a good little ice cream place! I personally like it better than other competing places because of their fun flavors!! Their service is SO FAST, so even if there's a line...it'll go by so quickly. read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Coconut Almond Chocolate Chunk and Java Chip - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

Made right on side it one of my favorite slogans! All i can stay is Ms Lauren deserves a raise! She melted us with her kind demeanor and was so helpful with using our reward points. I had to ask this sweet young women's name because she is the best employee at Smileys Ice Cream! read more

Smiley's by far has the best ice cream in the valley!! The staff are very kind, and extremely fast! I won't eat ice cream anywhere else now.

This is a little slice of ice cream heaven. It's in the middle of nowhere, but if you ever find yourself anywhere near, go and enjoy the wonderful ice cream! read more

OH! Now this is the best in the area. We've tried everything in the Harrisonburg area for ice cream, trying to match what we got used to in Wisconsin. What do ya know?! Smiley's came through! Super fast even if the line is long (which is most of the time). WIDE selection of flavors. About those flavors: they are deep and rich flavors here, not the mild and weak stuff some other ice cream joints are peddlin'. Lots of flavors as well! That's unique int he area. Top-quality ingredients from cows you can go meet :-) read more

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Our family of four went here for ice cream while staying at Massanutten Resort. Our kids love ice cream and would eat it every day if they could. We had just went to an ice cream shop a few days before right near the resort that we all really enjoyed so this place had a high bar to live up to. We drove a good 30-35 minutes from the resort through beautiful farms and rolling hills and came upon a large building with a lot of covered outside seating. The parking lot was large and there were a lot of cars there. This must be a very popular ice cream place for the area. Inside also had a lot of seating and what looked like a banquet room. Before arriving, my wife was suggesting a banana split because the listed flavors on their website didn't seem exciting to her but after sampling some of the ice cream, she decided to get 2 scoops in a waffle cone. She got a scoop of coconut almond chocolate chunk and black raspberry. My wife and daughter said the black raspberry was not as good as the last ice cream shop but it held its own in flavor. My 10 year old daughter got a scoop of black raspberry and chocolate Oreo. My 7 year old son got a scoop of death by chocolate and chocolate in a waffle cone. I got a scoop of death by chocolate and peanut butter & jelly. The peanut butter & jelly tasted just like a sandwich made the same way. We wanted to note that since it was our first time there we didn't know what flavors to get so we each tried about two or three different flavors each. After getting about 6-7 samples the ice cream server got tired of us asking for samples and started to give us a face and just basically sat down in front of the register and asked her coworkers to get the samples for us. She then took our order and refused to get up anymore to make the ice cream and got everyone else to do it. Not sure what was going on or if she had some type of condition/issue but we tried to brush it off and enjoy the delicious and reasonably priced ice cream. A small was two large scoops! You should add this to the list of ice cream shops to visit while in Harrisonburg area. read more

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Very nice ice cream shop on the outskirts. Service was quick and easy. Plenty of parking. Clean restrooms.

Best ice cream place ever!! So fresh!! Absolutely a hidden gem in the valley!! Service is quick and everyone is so friendly! read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Fresh peach ice cream and fresh banana ice cream - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

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The staff are always kind and friendly, there's plenty of seating and parking, but the ice cream just isn't what it used to just be. I don't know how to describe the experience of eating fresh churned ice cream made with simple ingredients, but I bet if there's an ice cream parlor in Heaven they use Smiley's old recipes. I don't know what they're doing differently, but it's just not the same. I'm sure they're making a killing off the reputation they built over a generation, but it seems they've gone the way of so many American businesses where quality is sacrificed in the name of profit. it will no longer be a part of my family's summer traditions. read more

Featured in this picture is the brownie batter and vanilla waffle cone. It's a small size (!) and has two full scoops. The brownie batter is rich, chocolatey goodness with a perfect amount of soft, delicious brownie chunks. The vanilla is creamy perfection, showcasing exactly what this flavor is capable of. The ice cream is dense and rich. This is not your local scoop shop's typical air-whipped famous brand mess. This is a much fresher, much more indulgent treat. As a bonus, when you sit on the patio, you will enjoy a stunning mountain vista that changes colors as the evening progresses. read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Brownie Batter and Vanilla small (haha) waffle cone featuring a beautiful mountain vista in the background. - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

Great food! Quaint shop! Lovely reprieve from shopping! My entire family can't wait to go back!!!

Worth the calories! Clean facility. Staff efficient. Plenty of flavors to pick from

Ice cream is fresh and delicious flavors. The service is speedy and pleasant. You can enjoy your food inside or outside. I have placed orders on yelp. I used pick up window so I did not have to go inside. read more

Stopping here on the way to Maryland is always a must. Best ice cream. We love sitting outside with our dogs enjoying the ice cream. We loved the old location better but it seems like they can serve better here. We love this place. read more

We came to Smileys after getting the recommendation from our hot air balloon pilot after seeing the fireworks for their grand opening of the new building mid-flight. According to the website the ice cream is made fresh daily in house and it definitely tasted like it. I ordered a small chocolate shake and it was delicious. It was a good size even for a small and just what I wanted. The building it very large for an ice cream shop and had a nice outdoor eating area that wrapped around the side of the building. Overall it was a great experience. read more

Smiley's Ice Cream - Milkshake - Small (12 oz) - Food Trucks Near Me - Bridgewater, Virginia

I lost my retainer in the trash can and was immediately approached by the sweetest employee who offered to cut the trash bag open to find it. She took the time to sift through all the nasty (and VERY sticky) contents of the bag until we were able to find my retainer despite the shop being pretty busy at the time. I can honestly say that this was the best customer service I have ever experienced, Mallory, you ROCK! read more

Smiley's Ice Cream is the Valley's BEST ! The employees are so friendly and quickly make up your order. Everything is clean and tidy with comfortable seating both indoors and outside. The only "problem" you may have is trying to make a decision for your order!¡ read more