Michigan’s Best Local Eats: The Cone Shoppe offers cold, sweet treats in time for summer

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — At The Cone Shoppe in Grand Rapids, prospects can discover candy treats, starting from ice cream cones and shakes to slushies and sundaes, in time for summer season.

“It’s an excellent place to get out and get a candy deal with,” stated Mason Theile, whose household owns the ice cream store, 1225 Michigan St. NE.

Theile stated The Cone Shoppe has been open for about 50 years, however that his household has owned it for about 10 years. One buyer favourite is the lemon soft-serve ice cream. “It’s form of received a candy, full style to it,” he stated. “It’s only a distinctive taste of soppy serve that most individuals haven’t tried earlier than.”

One other in style merchandise are the flurries, he stated.

Accessible in 14 flavors, together with Butterfinger, Chocolate Cherry and Oreo, the flurries are “an excellent deal with, and so they’re thick and satisfying,” Theile stated. “You don’t must have very a lot to be glad for it, as a result of there’s a lot content material in even a small quantity of it,” he stated.

Most cones served are underneath $5, relying on measurement and comfortable or exhausting serve.

The Banana Splits are additionally in style ($6 for a small, $7.50 for a big).

Served with ice cream, banana, strawberries, chocolate syrup, nuts, whipped cream and a cherry, the Banana Splits “are fairly huge and spectacular after they come out of the window.”

“They’ve a number of totally different toppings on them, so I feel that they catch folks’s consideration,” Theile stated.

The ice cream store is open Monday by means of Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., and from midday to 10 p.m. on Sunday. The enterprise may be reached by telephone at (616) 742-1981, and its menu, which additionally consists of sizzling canine and tacos, may be discovered on its Fb web page.

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