Nevería La Michoacana

Googled Detroit Ice Cream at the Tiger game today and this is what popped up.
Headed down after and boy were we impressed.
Super nice server who noticed we didn’t speak a lick of Spanish so she promptly switched to English.
Be aware. Only take credit card for over $ 10. And it takes a bunch of stuff to rack up $ 10!
3 kids each had double scoop in a chocolate dipped waffle cones. Chocolate filled frozen bananas for the wife and I and a few little frozen Popsicles to try.
Grand Total $ 11.50!
I think the ice cream store by home charges $ 2 just for the chocolate dipped waffle cone upgrade!
Will definitely be back!

Love the tons of ice cream ootions they have and at a very reasonable price! Must try the mangonata confruta! So delicious and filled up to the top, not sute what juice they put in it, but it has mango ice cream popcicle which is delicious. There’s just so many options to choose from! This place is super busy and now accepts card over $ 10.

Ice cream and I have a love-​love relationship. I love it, and it loves to make me fat. We’re happy together. Today I had a chance to visit Mexican Town, and our merry band had a hankering for something sweet (besides me). In comes Neveria whatever. This place offers more pros than cons, as you can already tell.
Pros:
+Vast selection of ice cream.
+Great prices
+Easy to find, look for the big «Ice Cream» sign on the front.
+Tables to sit down and talk about all things fattening and sugar-​related.
+They make most of their own ice cream.
+Fresh fruits galore! I imagine they purée their fruits to make ice cream bars, which is a dream come true!
+Dat tamarind pepper paste on a stick tho!
+Cute girl works there with red hair. Might consider visiting here repeatedly to spit my game like in a romantic comedy or whatnot.
Cons
–Tables pretty dirty. But I guess they’re busy so they dont have time to clean, so I’m not taking a star off.
Notes: They get extremely busy, so expect to wait a bit. The sign says «line starts here», but people line up wherever they want.

I brought my wife here yesterday for her first time. We both had a pineapple aqua fresca drink and she ordered the strawberries with cream and I got a lime popsicle.
The strawberries and crean was sweet and delicious, topped with granola, coconut and nuts etc… wasn’t really cream but more like what I suspect powdered sugar and a little water mixed up would taste like ;-)
My lime popsicle was intense and flavorful. I wish I had a freezer full of them at home.
The pineapple drinks were also great, slightly creamy, from the fruit being pureed. So refeshing.
The girl working the counter was very nice and helpful, telling us what most people order and so on… prices were really great too!

Never realized what the name of this restaurant was! But I have been here quite a few times. If you have read my earlier review of Taqueria El Rey, you’ll know I mentioned that I would always walk across the street and get ice cream at a mexican restaurant. Well guess what? This is THAT place!
They have really good ice cream with unlimited mix’ins for 1 dollar a scoop. So basically Coldstone, but you won’t have to take out a second mortgage. And the ice cream is not old crap, cardboard tasting ice cream. It really is fresh and tastes ‘velvety’. Sooo goood!
Instead of ordering something stupid, I highly recommend you order a banana split. They make some of the best banana split’s I have ever eaten in my life.
Yes a mexican ice cream shop makes the best banana splits in the world. Now get dinner at Taqueria el Rey, and dessert at this place (right across the street), and you’ll thank me later.
I promise.

This is my favorite thing in Detroit.
Delicious ice cream. Super low prices. Incredibly nice people. What’s not to love?

Always come here after Pollo Chapin, E&L Supermacado, and taco truck. When they are open that is.
I’m all about the standard horchata, but this most recent time I mixed half vanilla, and half mango. Win! From my understanding and research the horchata here is most like the Guatemala version, which seems to be the prominent US style of rice milk with cinnamon.
I always explain this to my friends as the flavor of cinnamon rice pudding, the consistency of milk, all while being ice cold and refreshing.

Let me tell you, Mexicans sure know how to do ice cream! Aqua frescas, frozen bananas, ice cream, and a bunch of other creamy goods I can’t pronounce. I hit this place up every time I am in SW Detroit it is that damn good. And don’t even get me started on the prices. You could walk out with 384 947 different items and only spend $ 20!!! Okay, maybe not that many but you get my drift. So stop reading and get in your car and head here… NOW!

I mean who doesn’t like ice-​cream? Not to mention for two small cones and a sundae —
$ 5.00
I also like how Mexicans put chili on everything, especially the chili on the fruit. Not a huge fan of the chili on the ice-​cream though. They also, put some Sriracha type sauce on the ice-​cream, my husband said it tasted like ketchup and it was really weird. But hey!

I’m giving 4 stars for a fun cultural experience. To be honest, I’m not quite sure what I ate, some kind of spicy chili popsicle. My family had other flavors and we sampled one another’s. All new flavors and textures for us. I have no idea if the confections we had were authentic. I’m not even sure if I liked what I ate. But it was an adventure and I’m always up for trying something new. Would I go back? Sure.

It’s closed for the winter FYI.

Latin America does almost everything better than its Spanish predecessors — language, food, dancing, governing — but there’s one thing that Spain has that is missing in this hemisphere: real horchata, made into a milkshake-​like consistency from the milk of the chufa nut. Mexican rice water horchata is just nowhere near as good.
That being said, the horchata at Michoacana is almost as good as you’ll find at Mi Pueblo (which might have the best horchata in town), and it’s $ 1.50 for a small. The strawberry agua fresca was just unbelievable, with fresh fruit at the bottom. It was the tastiest thing I’d had to drink in a long time.
So, while I can’t find «real» horchata anywhere, this place is cheap, and so close to Armandos, Café Con Leche, and Mexican Town Bakery, etc, that I’ll surely be back for an agua fresca or ice cream.

My favorite Mexicantown trifecta is: lunch at Taqueria Lupitas, browsing for gifts at the little gift shop next door and rounding it out by swinging by La Gloria bakery.
Neveria La Michoacana is part of my SECOND favorite Mexicantown trifecta, which is: lunch at Armandos, treats at the mexicantown bakery and POPSICLES at Neveria La Michoacana.
You don’t have to do the full trifecta to enjoy any of these experiences, but it is recommended.
These popsicles are the real deal. Real fruit and SUPER CHEAP. Half of the fun is trying to guess what the flavors are on the menu which is written exclusively in spanish. I don’t think there’s anything scary like Pig Stomach popsicle, so I say just go for whatever one looks the best — which will be a hard choice.
Also they have adorable little baby popsicles, so if you can find a baby to drag in here, I highly recommend it.

Omg evrything on this place is just yummylicious from the fresh fruit frozen goods to the watering mouth strawberries and cream top with your choice of coconut or peacans … To the fresh fruit flavor juices yummy. You def have to try the «mango con chile «pop sicle ;D

Pretty rare to hit two Unilocal Suggestions on my bucket list in one day, but we did!
Nevería La Michoacana & Pollo Chapin
Jasmine at Pollo Chapin was kind enough to tell us how to get here as I said, I am looking for a Mexican Ice Cream Place, whose name I cannot recall!
We parked right out front, as there is plenty of street parking near clark park
I tried a small cherry agua fresca, 20 ounce cup of delicious-​ness $ 1.00
My wife ordered 2 scoops of different ice creams in a bowl $ 2.00
The Place was HOPPING! and filled with plenty of people at 6pm on a Saturday Nite
Next Visit we will try those wild, colorful Popsicle’s!

This is a unique, delicious ice cream shop offering many tasty treats that your average ice cream shop does not offer. The paletas or popsicles come in a variety of delicious flavors and there are even mini popsicles available for 25 cents each so you can pick a few different flavors to sample without committing to a large bar. They also offer strawberries and cream that looked fresh and lovely, although I did not have the pleasure of sampling this treat yet. My favorite treat however are the aguas frescas which are delicious, fruit flavored drinks served with cubed ice. They are so cold and refreshing on a hot day and the flavors are outstanding. I had my choice of pineapple, rice drink, strawberry, melon and mango. I chose melon and it really tasted like fresh cantaloupe! Give this store a try… it is a wonderful variation on the traditional American ice cream shop.

Review 666 had to be evilly delicious and something I should not be eating…
Dil is one of my fave Unilocalers.
He was not wrong about here at all. Mmmmm popsicles, frozen bananas and strawberries with crème, oh my! So hard to pick. I will confess I wanted some of everything.
I had to go with a pineapple popsicle based on Michelle’s review. She was so on the money! Chunks of pineapple and so fresh. It was the best popsicle I think I have ever had. My husband had a strawberry one that was very tasty indeed but I preferred the pineapple.
Cheap! Tasty! Definitely worth a stop. I will say I think speaking a little Spanish helps with service but I would not mind any hassles if I went in solo, the product is too tasty to worry too much about any difficulties…

¡Que bueno!
If it wasn’t for Dil, Michelle, or Matt i prob would’ve never found this oasis of frozen desserts… thanks Unilocalers! :)
This place serves up freshly made fruit popsicles (aka paletas), agua frescas (a smoothie/​fruit punch-​like elixir), ice cream, and other off the menu items (like strawberries with freshly made crème) that are out of this world!!!
After you’re done hitting up the taco trucks along Vernor, def stop by this nevería (ice cream shop)! Also, don’t be shy if you can’t understand half the menu items, the workers there are very friendly and helpful in making suggestions or explaining the various items on the menu.
Side note: prices are extremely reasonable (as in $ 0.25-$ 2 for most items) and there’s parking available on the street… if not, their private lot (next to the building) has about 3 – 4 parking spots.
p. s. being the linguistic nerd that I am, I HAD to Google the word Michoacana to find it what it meant. After doing my research i found that «it comes from the root word» Michoacán, which is a state in Mexico. So ‘La Michoacana’ means of the state of Michoacán.

What a great little place! Ridiculous horchata for cheap + lots of ice cream and frozen treats = pure awesomeness.

Yesterday, I finally got to experience the thrill, the joy, the amazingness that is the Mexican popsicle! My guy would jabber my ear off about how amazing Mexican popsicles are and how we have to find them and how there is not comparision and so on… All I thought was «really»? a popsicle is a popsicle, right? WRONG! After dinner in the area, I stopped by Nevería La Michoacana to finally experience what apparently I’ve been missing out on.
The place does have tons of treats; regular ice cream, popsicles, frozen bananas and agua fresca. Figuring out how to order/​pay took a second. There is a sign that says form a line, but I don’t think anyone reads it, or if they do, they don’t pay attention to it. The frozen bananas looked great but I was set on trying this damned mexican popsicle. There were a number of flavors to choose from, I decided on the pineapple. I quickly unwrapped that sucker and OMG, it was all it was hyped up to be! It tasted so sweet, so fresh, with chunks of real pineapple. I finally understood the hype! And for the $ 1 pricetag, I think I have totally fallen head-​over-​heels for this summer treat! Next time, I’m gonna try the mango chile popsicle and maybe some agua fresca, and maybe a chocolate covered banana and maybe some ice cream (and the next day, I maybe not be able to fit in to my jeans!!!) but at least I will be in dessert heaven!

Ice cream, frozen fruit bars, agua fresca, banana pops!
This place is like a deep-​frozen Willy Wonka factory, just at the top of Clark Park near La Tapatía and Mexicantown Bakery. They’ve got a ton of frozen options for when you need a sweet treat to beat the heat. 20 different flavors of ice cream (like pistachio, chocolate, black cherry, cookies and cream, etc), frozen fruit bars (pineapple, grape, strawberry, guava, coconut), and agua fresca (cantaloupe, strawberry, mango, horchata). They can also make sundaes and have smoothies listed on the back boards above the counter. Flavors galore! This is the perfect compliment to an evening walk around the park, or for you taco-​truck addicts, a perfect post-​pastor refreshment. I decided to try the chocolate-​covered frozen banana pop (with sprinkles) and added a melon flavored agua fresca (fresh fruit drink over ice) for good measure… mmmmmmmm. mercy mercy mercy.
A few things to know in advance, so that you can expect and anticipate, and thus also enjoy a five-​star experience. Not only is the ice cream labeled entirely in español, but some of them are mislabeled, where the label’s match is not directly under the label but somewhere else in the display case… best to either ASK or just guess (you can guess 85% of them correctly just by eye). Also, the counter is long and the place is always packed so there’s not an entirely strict logic to who’s getting served in what order, more of a chaotic Nasdaq-​esque frenzy of bodies. In addition to that, all but one of the teenaged staff seemed hesitant to converse in ingles… so just be patient and assertive. There’s a good chance someone who walks in behind you gets served first… don’t get all hot and bothered… just chillax and catch the next server’s attention… you’ll be feeling cool as a strawberry paleta in mere seconds flat…