Carvel

Yummers!!!
Pumpkin ice cream is delicious! Thought it would be overbearing but the taste was spot on. Fresh, not too sweet — simply delicious. Rum raisin was just as good as I remembered.
We also got one of the pre-​packed small cup containers of chocolate soft serve with chocolate syrup. HEAVEN IN A CUP! Definitely did not need the crumbled cookie topping ($ 1.50). Sooooo good.
The store is clean and service is efficient enough. My only qualm is that the employees do not speak english.
Lots of parking.

My GPS got me lost coming to the this carvel. I am so glad I was able to figure out how to get here! It’s located in the same strip mall as tj maxx so be careful that your GPS does not take you to chase bank like mine did. I walked into the store and I was not expecting much. The atmosphere of the store was less than stellar. It was not the kind of place you sit and enjoy your ice cream but they did have a few stools. I sampled Nutella and vanilla soft serve. Both were SO thick and delicious. I could not decide what to get. I finally settled on Nutella as this was the last weekend they have the flavor, sadly. I am so happy I got the Nutella. It was seriously one of the best ice creams I have ever eaten in my life. The consistency was thick and never melted in the heat outside. The color was perfect as well. When I went to the tuckahoe carvel I was disappointed in the Nutella being identical to chocolate and just not very tasty. This one had a totally different recipe and the light Nutella flavor was out of this world. Their toppings bar was great too. They offered one of my favorite toppings that I rarely find anywhere– vanilla crunchies! I bought a side topping that only cost $ 1.50. My only complaint is my medium was way too stingy! It only weighed 9.5 ounces on my food scale. It was so incredibly delicious that I could’ve eaten two larges!

Typical Carvel soft serve ice cream (custard, for those of you from the Midwest). It’s a guilty pleasure. There is a very cute mother daughter team running the place. I tried the salted caramel flavor, which is limited edition, that I really liked. Sometimes you don’t need high concept ice cream. Sometimes Carvel is perfect. This store is a mile or two from the location of the original Carvel ice cream stand.

Carvel has always been the best in my book. But man, the large custard cones sure are expensive these days! They still have the best vanilla custard ever. But after getting the chocolate custard cone at this location, it tasted totally different… way too chocolatey, much too chocolatey — not like the good olé chocolate Carvel custard. Why? I don’t know but I’ll try a different location to see if this was just a fluke. (though very friendly service at this Central Ave. location)

We were in Carvel the other night for an ice cream treat and were very disappointed in the quality of the ice cream. The coffee flavor was so weak that in a blind taste test, you would be hard pressed to come up with a flavor. The rum raisin tasted like vanilla ice cream with with some dried raisins thown in it. Really disappointing for a firm that has specialized in ice cream for seven decades. Whoever is in charge of quality control at Carvel is making Tom Carvel turn over in his grave!

It was a very sad day for Southern Westchester and Carvel fans when this FIRST ever Carvel store closed in October of 2008. It was open for SEVEN DECADES and the best part is that even till its closing day, it had preserved its 50’s look.