Vanilla Bean Creamery

The ice cream here is great, numerous flavored of hard ice cream, and some great some ones too. I did see they carry frozen yogurt too. They carry all the great toppings and sauces. Decent amount of seats.
Today I walked in, and to start, there was only 2 girls working, there should be 3 people working. Its summer and it gets busy, have 2 scooping the ice cream and 1 on the register. Next as I’m waiting, a customer walks in with her dog on its leash, it wasn’t even a service dog. I was hoping there was a manager or owner to say something, I would say that I found it disgusting and unsanitary. The women could have cared less too, she stood with her nose in the air.
The ice cream is still awesome !

De-​li-​cious! They have a large variety of ice cream flavors and a decent amount of sherbet flavors. Plus they sell ice cream sandwiches and ice cream cakes. I highly suggest the almond joy ice cream!

The ice cream is good, but the cleanliness and short attention span of the servers could definitely be improved upon. Not a big deal since you’re more than likely there for the ice cream, but not a five-​star experience/​business.

I love this place. Right near my home town with sensible prices. Everything is homemade and tastes great. They’ve won so many awards so you know it’s good.

This place is one of my favorite ice cream shops in the area! The ice cream is authentic and creamy, and you can tell that it was made with natural ingredients. The milkshakes here are also really good too. It’s in a great location, in the heart of Downtown Cranford so it can be easily accessible. Every time I come back here, their ice cream never ceases to amaze me. Highly recommend!

Genuinely good place! Ice cream and frozen yogurt are both good and really feels like a homemade place. Definitely coming back!

Great ice-​cream place! We usually go there as a treat for kids after dinner and it’s always a hit. We’ve also gotten ice cream cakes from them and they are so delicious. Not to mention ice cream cupcakes!!! The only reason why I took a star away is because it can get a bit pricey for a family of four.

I love this little gem of an ice cream parlor. Great ice cream and milkshakes! I want to try the homemade ice cream sandwiches or an ice cream cake, next.

Great ice cream, friendly staff, perfect location! Their flavors are always great and their portions are more than generous. Located right across from a nice little park/​sitting area in the center of town so even if there isn’t seating right outside the establishment there are plenty of places to sit and enjoy your ice cream.

Really yummy homemade ice cream with seasonal flavors.

Coconut almond joy! What a joy!
This is one of my biggest cravings, it’s so thick and creamy. I start off thinking I can handle the medium size cup and always end up realizing I over did it cause it’s so super filling. It makes me really happy though, this is one of my favorite treats. I’ve had the «award winning banana» which taste like real banana, I need to chocolate in my ice cream so I added some choco fudge and sprinkle no that is perfection. There is a large selection of flavors and toppings.
For my birthday my husband got me a cake from here, which was super yummy cause it was vanilla with chocolate fudge and chocolate crunch inside. It served 8 people and we had it for dessert an entire week.
The staff is really nice, no pressure to commit to a flavor after asking for a sample, and there is always plenty of parking in the back. The parking has meters of course.

Very delicious ice cream! I just wish they had a few more flavors (I want to say there was 20-​something flavors). That may seem a bit silly, but I’m used to 40+ flavors down here on the shore. ;)
I ended up with Birthday Cake ice cream, which was delicious with the rainbow sprinkles. My girlfriend’s Oreo Pumpkin was really awesome.
Very clean, very friendly, very delicious.

Decent at best. Young kids working the counter and from the looks of the filthy floors and mess behind the counter I guess that’s what you have to expect when there’s no boss around. For that alone I seriously doubt I’d ever go back to this place. Don’t let the photos on their site fool you. You WON’T be seeing any ice cream or sundae’s looking like any of those! After seeing the ice cream pics on their site, I kinda feel duped. I’d go to my local Cold Stone ice cream place before ever going back here.

Have been here a couple of times when we go out to dinner with our friends. They have a variety of homemade, unique flavors. DW had a salted caramel pecan and I had holy cannoli. Pecan was salty as advertised. Cannoli had the right flavor translated into ice cream. We both ordered kids sizes which was enough for us, but paying over $ 6 for 2 kiddie sized ice creams is a little much. Place was clean and service was good.

Love it here, maybe because I’m pregnant :) They always have fun hard ice cream flavors to choose from. Kids that work here are so nice, even with the crazy summer crowd they keep their cool.
Just go and treat yourself.

Really excellent home made ice cream. Lots of original creative flavors and the ice cream is really thick and creamy, not that fake frozen yogurt stuff. I’ve gotten a simple basic birthday cake here, yeah it’s like those Carvel ice cream cakes except way better. It’s got lots of chocolate crunchies, the ice cream is better and there was integrated chocolate fudge! Another time I got the chocolate cake crunchie flavor ice cream and it was delicious. My wife and my sister liked their almond joy flavored ice cream as well. Buy 10 ice creams, cups or cones, and get 1 free. They give you a card that tracks it. There is a paid parking lot in the back and metered street parking in the front. This is definitely the best ice cream place near where I live and I’ll be back many more times.

Very good and original flavor selection. They have the regular flavors you would expect to find in an ice cream parlour and then they have done that I had never seen before. Probably the most interesting one I saw (and tasted) was the donut ice cream. The girl told us that it was basically pureed glazed donuts. Upon tasting, that was a 100% perfect description.
I opted for a «Cookie Monster» cone with no toppings. I was going to let the ice cream speak for itself and that was exactly what it did. It was a mix of vanilla ice cream with Oreo, Chips Ahoy, and a fudge ribbon throughout. It was amazing! The consistency of the ice cream was great and not too light or fluffy like some places make it these days.
My friend was so excited about his «grasshopper» cup that he accidentally ate the side of his styrofoam cup on his first bite.
I will absolutely come here again if I’m in the area.
I took one star off because they have a credit card minimum of $ 10 and my $ 9+ change total wasn’t enough, so I had to go and take out money at the ATM to cash. The girl could have given me a break over thirty something cents… Even if they just charged my card $ 10, it was still cheaper for me than my ATM fees.

With their ever changing creative flavors matched with a quality product, I’m finding it harder and harder to not stop here on warm summer nights.
The staff is pleasant and knowledgeable for their young age and the place doesn’t have that typical «old milk» smell that so many ice cream joints have.
While my waist line does not approve of their shop, my soul certainly does.

This place is delicious! I got the mint chocolate chip with Oreos and fudge along with the banana foster with some peanut butter on top! The ice cream is a lot better than the service. Nonetheless, this place exceeded my expectations and is definitely worth the trip. I will be here quite often.

I wish I had paid more attention to the GIANT BANNER that boasts about their most popular flavor, banana’s foster. But instead, I opted for the (nearly empty) holy cannoli. WOW. Just amazing. Kudo’s to the girl who helped scrap the bottom of the barrel just for me.
So very very very delicious.