Graeters Ice Cream

Graeter’s is my favorite! And out of all the locations, this one is the one I always go to! This location had a large indoor play area for kids, and every first Thursday of the month they will hand out frosty paws for dogs! My favorite is the Cookie Monster sundae, I MUST have one every week! All of the staff are super friendly and they always give me huge scoops of ice cream!

Really yummy ice cream! Fresh and with a great amount of ingredients! They have an area for kids to play as well as a place for tours on how to make ice cremes. Surprised to know that they’ve been in the business since 1870! We had cookies & crème, black raspberry chocolate chip, salted caramel, & maple black walnut! All were very good!

Hands down, best ice cream I’ve ever had! I was kinda bummed because the tours weren’t open to explore, or that was the impression we were given. But my son and his friend loved the play area!

Birthday party for my 3 year old grandson. They have a wonderful play area for the kids who had a blast. Lots of room to romp and even with another party going on everything went smoothly. The staff was super friendly and helpful.
Returned to try their new Bourbon Pecan Chocolate Chip ice cream and it was absolutely yummy. The place is clean and the servers friendly. Great hand crafted ice cream. What more do you need?

I love Graeter’s, and this is one of their largest retail locations (if not the largest) in Columbus. On top of that, they have a large indoor play area for kids. I should love this location! But unfortunately, this is probably my least favorite Graeter’s location in Columbus.
First of all, they’re super busy, even in the middle of winter. But on the other hand, they have some of the slowest staff I’ve ever encountered at a Graeter’s. The line seems to move twice as fast at the Graeter’s on Lane Avenue compared to this location.
And even though the building is so large, the number of available seats is surprisingly low. And they don’t really have much of an outdoor seating area either, so that option is lost in the summer time.
It’s not unbearably horrible, and the ice cream is still just as tasty as the other locations… but if I had a choice, I would pick the Lane Avenue Graeter’s every time over this location on Bethel.

First of all, this Graeter’s location is very nice inside and is the «main office» of Graeter’s in Columbus. It’s very spacious, has a play area, is nicely decorated, and hosts many birthday parties. The service is also very friendly, although the girl serving me gave me a wrong sample and nearly messed up my order before I corrected her as she was in the process.
The ice cream at Graeter’s is very good, although not quite as good as Jeni’s in my opinion. The 1870 Tower dessert sunday was very good– a small, frozen and heated (but still very tasty) bundt cake topped with the ice cream of your choice, walnuts, fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry. It is $ 5.45 for one scoop and all that or $ 5.95 for two scoops, so I went with two of course! Ice cream and cake being one of my favorite combinations, this was definitely a hit!
Overall the ice cream is a little expensive, especially if just ordering bowls or cones when you could get pints for nearly the same price in stores, and Graeter’s isn’t the best ice cream I’ve ever had. It’s definitely a very good option for premium ice cream, however, and this location is very nice.

This is a pretty cool ice cream place! I decided to come here when a friend from out of town was visiting with her daughter. The kids loved the play area! There is no extra charge for the play area so it’s a great low priced outing for the kids. The bad part about it is that it attracts everyone. There were some pretty rough kids there and my son got knocked down several times. It didn’t stop him from having fun though.
We got ice cream after playing. The employees were all friendly and helpful. I got a mint chocolate chip milkshake and everyone else got ice cream cones. I really enjoyed mine. It was pretty thick but tasted great. The cones were also huge! I don’t think anyone was able to finish theirs.
Afterwords we went through the little museum area. It was pretty small. They had those bag games there so the kids played with that for a while.
I had a great time here. We will definitely make another trip here soon!

What a great place! I was in town for my sister’s wedding and my daughter wanted ice cream, for some reason. There was a Dairy Queen across the street, but who wants to eat that crap?
Highlights:
* Hyper-​friendly staff, but definitely not awkward
* They took the time to help my daughter find the right flavor, which was really nice.
* Really clean
* idk about the other locations, but this one had a massive play area, which my daughter didn’t see until we were leaving, which meant we weren’t leaving.
* my daughter had lemon sorbet and it was amazing. I had a hot fudge sunday. The ice cream was great. The hot fudge was bitter, which means they probably use a dark chocolate. Not bad, just didn’t expect it.
If you’re looking for a great ice cream experience, definitely check this spot out.

Awesome ice cream. Love the mocha chocolate chip with a scoop of coconut. This location always seems to skimp on the size of the scoops though.

You never grow too old for ice cream! You are never too hip, too cool, too successful, or too grand to not want a few dips of fattening, diet destroying, calorie ballooning, bliss making orgasmic heaven. Luckily we have a few great ice cream places in town to make our smarmy, know-​it-​all doctors mad. One of the tops – Graeter’s!
This regional Ohio chain has had this store as long as I can remember. The large brick building and spacey parking lot gives away its popularity. On the inside is a huge, white soda-​shop dinning room. To the right is a large children play area with rides, slides, and enough fun for your child to run off the catnipish sugar high of their treat. To the left is a self-​guided factory tour for my fellow history and food science geeks. Their ice cream in made at a certain quantity at a time, and is different than most mass producers.
On the weekend the line can be long. But don’t play a long cellphone game for the staff is well trained and will serve you fast. They have everything you expect: sundaes, splits, cones of all sizes and types. I got my favorite – chocolate milkshake – real milk. They did ask me a kind if strange question: do I want only chocolate syrup, or only chocolate ice cream, or both? Well I want both, AND in a chocolate cup, AND a vat of chocolate on the side, so I can swim in! Unfortunately, they didn’t have those options. :-(
The shake is perfect. Graeter’s is not as wild as our local ice cream goddess Jeni, but the quality is comparable. It is mainstream stuff, not a place for taste bud adventuring.
It’s only downfall is price. $ 5 and change for a typical sized large; but you get what you pay for. Quality is the goal here. A family on a budget is better off buying Graeter’s at a supper market and dishing at home, or going to a standard dairy dip. (though not the DQ across the street, see my review.) But for a special treat, that is more mainstream than Jen’s, this is the place.

My favorite flavor is the peanut butter chocolate chip but the black raspberry chocolate chip is a close second. The chips are not the tiny morsels but instead they’re chunks of cocoa heaven. This was my cheat dessert after 3 months of no sweets. It was definitely worth it. Only wish that Kroger’s didn’t stop selling the pb chocolate chip pint. At least we’re lucky to find the Graeter’s brand down here in Atlanta. Oh, one of these days, I’ll try the buckeye blitz flavor…

The prices were $ 2.75 for single scoop in sugar cone and $ 4.75 for 2 scoops in waffle cone.
Blueberry pie and toffee were my favorite out of the flavors that we tried. Hand crafted and packed – there were plenty of huge chocolate chunks in the mint chocolate chip from their unique way of making their «chips». The ice cream itself was also nice and creamy.
It was a great treat to have on a hot summer day!

It’s rich. It’s creamy. It full of fat. And one of my favorite foods… Ever.
The location is nice. Big. Roomy. Play area for kids. (Warning it’s loud in there). Separate area for enjoying ice cream.

They’re usually pretty empty whenever we visit (only a couple times a year, usually not ice cream season). A nice open store though. The museum side leaves a bit to be desired, but the playground side is super fun for kids. Oh, and they have good ice cream too. Love that we can get ice cream, and then let the kids run and play for a bit.

Get the black raspberry chip! You can sample anything you want too. Honestly, it’s creamy smooth fattening ice cream with a lot of different varieties for you to choose from, you’ll definitely find something for you here. If you have kids, there’s a nice play area and they also do parties. I’ve never been here where you can see them doing a tour/​demo on the left side, but that looks interesting.

This is a great place to take the kids if you are on the Northwest side and looking to get ice cream and also need a place for the kids to play. They have a big indoor, ice cream themed playground next to the dining area (safely enclosed behind glass doors so that people without kids can also enjoy their ice cream). If you are here in the summer, be prepared to wait in line. We came here at 8:30 on a Saturday night and waited for about 30 minutes.
As far as the ice cream and frozen treats, though, I personally really prefer the other ice cream shop in town (starts with a J and ends in eni’s). But, again, if you are in the neighborhood and looking for a way to entertain the kids, this is the place to go.

Tried Graeter’s for the first time last weekend. I was quite full from dinner so I shared a single scoop with my girlfriend. The blue cosmo ice cream at Mitchell’s (a NE Ohio ice cream chain), which is a blue cotton candy flavored ice cream, has been our favorite. Graeter’s has a similar flavor which they simply call cotton candy. The Graeter’s version is less sweet but has marshmallow specks mixed in which gives it bursts of sweetness. The ice cream was creamy and has good texture. I can’t judge how their other flavors are, but if its as good as the cotton candy, this is a wonderful place for ice cream!

This particular location has everything you could want. Ice cream, sodas, phosphates (!), tours, and a playland for the kiddies. Last night, we also discovered that the windows are perfect for watching lightning as it rolls over the northside of town.
My favorite part of the ice cream here (besides the amazing flavors) is the size of the chocolate «chips». They are really chunks and even that might be underselling it a bit. I had a chip that was the size of a teaspoon… it was fantastic.

Mocha Chip = goodness. The chips very in size from huge to slivers that work very nice to eat. The ice cream is creamy and I have never had a bad experience.
This location also has a great play area for kids along with plenty of space. Today three different large groups were having parties there. My wife and I are keeping this as a later option in a few years for our kid’s birthday party.

I love Graeter’s ice cream! Especially their mint chocolate chip. It’s definitely the standard that I compare all other places too and so far no other place’s mint chocolate chip has met the challenge.
This location is by far the biggest that I’ve been to. They had a party area where you can have birthday parties as well as a playground area (If you have kids, socks are required for them to play on the play area).
They also carry a lot of flavors here. Some of the other Graeter’s I’ve been too only had mint chocolate chip as a seasonal flavor but apparently this location carries it year round! Bonus!