Cloudeez

I’ve tried ice cream made with liquid nitrogen before in Australia and it was so good! I was excited to hear that an ice cream place with the same concept opened up in SD and finally got to try it last night. First you choose your size, then base. Next, you can choose 1 or 2 flavors for your base and add toppings for an additional price. You can also have it in a waffle cone or choose an ice cream sandwich instead. I ended up getting the chocolate and hazelnut flavors. The atmosphere wasn’t as fun as when I tried it the first time. but the ice cream was really creamy and they give you a lot of it. I’m not sure how they mix the flavors, but I prefer having the two flavors separately. Since there are only 2 machines, the wait could be a while if a lot of people are ahead of you. I forgot to check– in for a free topping, but there is a stamp card if you’re going to frequent this place!

This ice cream is fantastic!
Came in here a few weeks back and had an amazing dessert. I’d never had this style of ice cream but it was amazing.
Would recommend to anyone looking for a dessert downtown!

Extreme addictive powers! Unbelievably smooth and creamy with just the right amount of flavor. We had the chocolate with Oreos.

Great concept of the liquid nitrogen ice cream but execution was average. It seemed like soooo much work for one customer. I guess that’s where the originality factor comes in place.
Honestly, ice cream was good, but it didn’t seem any different from like Cold Stones. I got the strawberry & mango flavor mixed cream and premium gelato with strawberries bits in there… I swear it tasted just as creamy as Cold Stones (vanilla cream and strawberries). My ice cream was a great texture. The price is a bit hefty but you get like a shit ton of ice cream… which was bad for someone like me who is lactose intolerance… lets just say my night was not fun. LOL. My friend’s ice cream on the other hand was bad. The texture was not right, it was already super melting when she got hers. She went here before and she said the first time it was great and had great texture but second time around it was okay. I also guess it has something to do with who’s making your ice cream and how hard they work to make it…
It’s a great spot for downtown and I would come here again. Probably to share instead of it all going to my belly.

liquid nitrogen-​cooled ice cream, yayyy.
i’m sorry, but as you’ll notice is a running theme with my reviews of such hipsterish-​expensive ice cream joints, you’d at least hope the flavors and combinations of ice creams offered would be unique and/​or exceptional, but for the most part, Cloudeez just didn’t give me that WOW factor… and definitely not at the $ 6 price-​point.
we stopped in here coming from drinks and lunch at Bar Basic nearby, on our way to Petco for the game. never knew this place existed, but figured we’d stop in to kill a little time and get our sweet tooth satisfied. relatively small location, but extremely convenient as it’s placed just outside a ticket entrance to Petco Park. nice staff, but hopefully they drop the price a little to be consistent with the standard combinations of ice cream offered from this place.
–civilities.

Went here after a Pads win with the girlfriend. We were in a good mood, pretty excited to try some ice cream made in this unique way. She places her order and we waited around for 15 minutes. We saw a handful of people who came in after us receive their orders, but hers never came :-/​. She goes up to the counter and explains what we’ve noticed.
Turns out the «receipt never printed». Not only that, but the cashier doesn’t know how to give a refund. So she calls over her coworker and they finally get the refund on the card. As cool as liquid nitrogen chilled ice cream sounds, I’m not interested enough to come back here. If I had messed up that bad I would have offered something, SOMETHING, complimentary or discounted.

I went back this weekend for a second visit and was not impressed. This time I ordered a regular di’gelato with my own custom flavors — mango and guava. It was too watery and melty, and the syrup-​based flavors tasted artificial. Definitely not worth $ 6!
My friend got a strawberry di’gelato (with mango flavor too), and they got the consistency perfect — stiffer and thicker and held its shape. It also tasted like fresh strawberries with little chunks of fruit. She said she couldn’t taste the mango.
Given that my first experience at Cloudeez was a home run, the lesson is to just order the STRAWBERRY.
Also, my first time two male workers were really blasting the nitrogen machines and you could see big puffs of smoke… but this time it was two female workers who were barely creating any nitrogen clouds which is probably why I got watery ice cream.

I love the concept of this place. Staff are very welcoming and friendly. BF asked what makes it any different than getting a Blizzard @ DQ? Just the higher price. The ice cream were really good.
For the rating part:
5 Stars for Service/​Staff
4 Stars for the concept
2.5 Stars for the actual ice cream
Dont get me wrong, their ice cream is supposed to taste what it supposed to taste but at almost double the price vs a DQ or something else? Specially their base is from Torani Syrup (artificial flavor), then that’s as much stars I can give out.

I came after their regular hours, so it was a very limited menu selection and they recommended that we come back during regular hours when they saw us confused by the menu.
After a Padres game on a Saturday night, we were the first of the crowd and had time to pick what we wanted without a huge line behind us. Although that wasn’t too hard because they only had one size available at the time, 2 scoops with a topping for $ 4.85.
I saw behind the counter that there were a couple rows of Torani syrups, which lead me to stray away from any of the interesting flavors and just go with a traditional vanilla/​chocolate mix with oreos on top. I shared with my boyfriend, and we were both very disappointed with the amount of oreos on top! There were hardly any, and wished they had done it like golden spoon does (layer on the bottom, and layer on the top).
The ice cream is definitely creamy, and it’s fun to watch them use liquid nitrogen, but the price for what you actually get is not enough for me. Service was perfectly fine, ambiance was alright (very empty), and ice cream was creamy.

Amazing!!! My new favorite ice cream place downtown. The quality of this ice cream is second to none, and best I’ve ever had. It is the freshest ice cream you will ever taste. You can either pick an already mixed flavor combo or create your own like I did. You pick your base which is either a cream (which I got, most traditional), sorbet, or gelato. Then you pick your flavor, and finally you add your mix-​ins. Watching them make your ice cream with liquid nitrogen is such a cool process! The staff is very friendly, and the entire setup is very entertaining. It makes you want to try making the ice cream yourself, or go back to high school chemistry and whip up your own ice cream flavors! The owner of the shop is very friendly. They offer a loyalty card and after 10’visits you get a free ice cream with 1 mix-​in. I will definitely be back for more fantastic ice cream!

I just happened to be parked right outside of Cloudeez and decided to give it a try.
Cloudeez is located near the Padres Petco park and I felt like some ice cream that day.
Cloudeez ice cream is made fresh to order with nitrogen. You pick you base and your mix-​ins, et voila! Fresh ice cream made fresh before your eyes!
I chose mango and vanilla flavored ice cream with fresh blueberries. That was some mighty perfection.
The ice cream is dense yet creamy.
The only other place I’ve been to with ice cream made to order was in Las Vegas, so I’m happy to know that we have a place in San Diego now that offers this.
Overall rating: Worth a Try! I just happened to be right by!

My boyfriend and I went to this place before the baseball game. I got an almond and peanut butter ice cream and I liked it very much! It was very creamy and the two favors mixed perfectly together. He got chocolate and pistachio, but he was expecting it to be two separate scoops.
People work there were very friendly but I think the ice cream is kinda pricey.

Russell is the ice cream God. I came here after the library with my family and found the customer service here to be extraordinary. My son loved the ice cream here he had a vanilla ice cream and then Russell came and put sprinkles on it. I’ve been to every ice cream shop in San Diego and this is definitely the best one I’ve ever been to. I had a Batman t-​shirt on ten joy the day with my son after the robot convention and pass by the shop and it was pretty packed but the wait was only a minute or two.
Fresh fresh fresh ice cream is definitely the reason why this is the best ice cream place in San Diego thank you Russ Sofia great customer service I will definitely be back here as my wife works down here and I am down here safely for me.
Thanks guys for the fresh ice cream and the extreme can your customer service.

I walked into Cloudeez with high expectations having been to a similar liquid nitrogen ice cream establishment a few months ago. The sheer amount of toppings (brownie bites were homemade– yum!) and choice of premium, organic and sherbet bases seemed like a win-​win. The consistency of the ice cream once frozen was solid and rich. Unfortunately, their ice cream had one fatal flaw…
Cloudeez uses overly sweet fake-​tasting syrups to flavor their ice cream bases. Unlike the other place I visited which had three quality flavors (which they customized with mix-​ins), Cloudeez just tries to offer too much. The chocolate flavor was the best of the bunch, but still fell flat and was too light. The coffee flavor didn’t taste much like coffee at all. And the macadamia flavor tasted about 10 times too sweet with a lingering chemical aftertaste. All of them made me think of the syrups you’d use in a drink at a local coffee shop… which is something that doesn’t belong in my ice cream.
So I’m bummed out. I hope they learn from this, scale down their wild flavor ambitions, and focus on a solid, great tasting product. In the mean time, I’ll get my ice cream elsewhere.

By no means is Cloudeez «bad» ice cream, just expect to pay for the spectacle of liquid nitrogen. I’m assuming that liquid nitrogen isn’t cheap, which explains why a size small (without any toppings) comes to $ 4.10. (Think about measuring cups in cooking/​baking, the small is about ¾ of a cup.)
Overall, the chosen flavor of cherry was minimal. Perhaps it could have used another pump of Torani cherry syrup. The consistency tasted more like slightly melted frozen yogurt. The biggest rip off are the mix-​ins for an additional $ 0.70 each. You can seriously buy an entire candy bar for less than that!
Next time I’m in the Gaslamp area and need a creamy treat, I’ll be going to Chocolat Cremerie for gelato where the toppings are already mixed in.

Cloudeez is a gimmick, pure and simple. You pay a pretty penny… err, a pretty several bucks for a cream base flavored with Torani syrup. So, basically, premium price for less-​than-​premium flavors. And the resulting product tastes more like syrup than strawberry (in our case). What’s more, Cloudeez makes you pay more to add mix-​ins. In other words, you have to pay to add the strawberry chunks that would come standard in even generic ice cream. Premium price becomes premium-​er.
The only better-​than-​negative thing I can say about Cloudeez is that, due to the gimmick freezing process, the texture of the ice cream is «interesting.» It remains to be seen whether interesting becomes good or bad, but I’m not exactly jumping at the chance to evaluate further.
Summary: The future of Cloudeez is cloudy.

Hand-​churned ice cream is so 2000 and late. This is a nice little modern ice cream spot with great customer service! The ice cream here is created with liquid nitrogen, much in the same vein as Creamistry and other LA based ice cream shops. I think this is the first of its kind in San Diego, and it did not disappoint! Watching them make your ice cream is an experience in itself. The ice cream comes out sooo creamy and fresh tasting. I recommend the pistachio + hazelnut together. They were so nice they added fresh pistachios to our order, free of charge. The Partly Cloudy size is enough for 2 to share.
I can imagine (and hope) this spot gets hotter as baseball season starts. I frequent the Lolita’s nearby from time to time so this will def be my new dessert spot by the ballpark!

Their menu is very misleading. The menu shows a picture of an ice cream cone, emphasizing the cone here, for $ 3.80. However, if you want said cone it’s going to cost you .75 more.
I tried to point this out and I was directed go another section of the menu, two monitors over, that clearly showed cones were .75.
So to sum this up, if you want their sunshine ice cream cone, as pictured, it’s going to run you $ 3.80, cone extra.
I won’t be back to such a deceptive business.

Found out this place was opening this morning so the wife and I decided to try it!
Very clean, open atmosphere, and friendly staff to start off. Ice cream is delicious and actually pretty reasonably priced, just watch out for the charges that mix-​ins can ring in!
The one thing you have to consider is that they use liquid nitrogen to individually make every order, so wait times are longer than your typical ice cream shop.
A stone’s throw away from Petco park, so the location couldn’t be better either!
All in all, a great ice cream parlor, you’ve got to check it out!

I am honored to be the first Unilocaler to put this mom and pop ice creamery on the map. They are new to the downtown scene, and hopefully their ideal location (right next to Petco Park) will give them a steady fan base through the spring and summer months.
You have probably never had ice cream like this before. Here is an excerpt from their website:
«One of the primary benefits of the Cloudeez experience is having your ice cream made instantly in front of you. Using liquid nitrogen, ingredients go through a series of «flash freezes» at –320 degrees F.
«The evaporating liquid nitrogen boils off a gentle cloud, and creates smaller ice crystals compared to typical ice cream.
«The benefits of using this process include being able to have premium, quality ice cream that is freshly made, with infinite combinations of bases, flavors, and mix-​ins.»
Not only that, but it’s fun to watch! The family-​run business is eager to grab the attention of the local community, and these folks make you feel right at home when you stop in for a visit.
The taste experience itself is quite remarkable. Being the vanilla guy that I am, I simply got the vanilla ice cream mixed with so mini Reese’s cups, and it was so good! My friends each went the organic sorbet option, which I got to try and equally enjoy. With the sorbet, it feels like you are eating a cloud. That’s the only effective way to describe the experience.
Locals need to check this place out and make a good name for these newcomers. My only concern is the amount of time it takes to create these confectionary creations, but I’m sure these are kinks that will be worked out over time.
Best of luck to you, Cloudeez!