Serendipity Homemade Ice Cream

Had been planning to try this place for some time, as I love great ice cream. Went there tonight with friends, and it will be the last time. First impression was that is was not very clean. Second impression was a freezer case with tubs of ice cream that had partially melted and allowed to re-​freeze, along with tubs that barely had a scoop left in them. Basically, it was disgusting. Went into the adjacent closet-​sized room to eat, which also was less than clean. I will say that the coconut ice cream I had was rich, creamy, and flavorful. Too bad the standards of the owners did not match the quality of the product.

For what you get, I think this place is overpriced. The ice cream tasted pretty salty, and the nuts I got on top were stale. Not planning on returning.

Love it!!! Very best in ice cream flavors, and excellent service. I don’t mind driving out of my way for those reasons. Becky and staff look to seeing me again real soon!!!

Two words: Bön Bons. That’s it. That’s all you need to know.
And now back to the business of a review.
After a disappointing dinner in the vicinity, my party and I were considering options for desert. It was around zero degrees and less than that with wind chill, but Ice Cream was on our minds! We had actually considered just getting a cone at McDonald’s when one of my more astute friends suggested Serendipity. Considering the alternative, we happily agreed to go. We parked across the street and crossed in the frigid cold to the store. Walking in we weren’t exactly transported to a new-​hipster heaven or an old-​fashioned ice cream shop, but we were solidly embraced by happy staff and a huge case of ice cream. The flavors aren’t anything you haven’t had before, but they’re all of good quality and certainly worth eating. You can try as many flavors as you like and you can buy more than one flavor to a bowl, much like at a gelato place. Nice.
To be honest, the reason to try Serendipity isn’t the ice cream itself, but the magical creations they make with it. They make these small ice cream balls covered in chocolate (for ONE DOLLAR) called Bön Bons. They also make their version of a Drumstick with and w/​o peanuts. Amazing. I’ll go for the bon bons any day of the week. Get the one that’s made with coffee ice cream, you won’t ever forget it!

Well, we wanted to pick up some frozen custard at Ted Drewes but we had to get over to the hospital before dinner was over so, by chance, we stopped at Serendipity. They make their own ice cream, and it’s OK. Very basic flavors, nothing fancy, not too rich, nothing over-​the-​top, and not too expensive. Store is a bit shabby. Never seen this before: they pass out free lactaid at the check-​out! Nuff said. I would prefer to drive the extra 15 minutes to catch Ted Drewes, but what are you going to do when you are in a hurry to reach a hospital in Webster Groves?

I have been to Serendipity two times in the course of the last two weeks. My good friend is super fan and he loves their chocolate ice cream. The first time I had the cinnamon ice cream. It was good but not great. The second time I had the Salty Caramel Swirl. It was delicious. Serendipity is a nice neighborhood place and they produce a quality product. I will return.

Although I rarely go to the actually store,
Serendipity always seems to cross paths with me. Most recently while at the Fox theater seeing Wicked. During the intermission I was starving and didn’t want to venture all around to get something and like an angel from heaven Serendipity is selling little cups of ice cream there, how random! I’m not sure if it was actually as good as I remember being that I hadn’t eaten that day but it was creamy and cold and just the perfect treat to hold me over. So thank you, you all save lives lol!

I’ve been going here for years… not a whole lot cause I need to watch my waist line, but when I want to indulge… I go here for the Gold Coast Chocolate… it is THE MOST DARKEST, MOST CHOCOLATEE chocolate ice cream I’ve ever had anywhere… and I’ve visited some 30 plus countries on this planet. Owner does not scrimp on the cocoa powder she pours into this divine chocolate sensation. The other flavors are excellent and creative too… like Pumpkin, great Drumsticks, etc. They also do special catered order treats and have 2 glass door fridges with quart sizes of their most popular flavors to take home. It’s not a fancy, upscale place, but has ambiance of a well used old-​fashioned, neighborhood ice cream shop. It’s small and narrow, and does have seating on the other side if you want to hangout. Workers are often high school or college students and yes they may not always be perfect and greet every person who enters, but one goes here for the quality of the product. You can often park right in front on Big Bend and they do have a large parking lot in back with a backdoor entrance. They will even do catered events, e.g. we hired them to bring a hot fudge sundae station with frozen wagon thing with cute striped umbrella for my father’s funeral gathering cause he was a total ice cream fanatic.

Best ice cream in St. Louis, period.

This is a cute little ice cream shop. I’ve been here a couple times and always enjoyed the ice cream I’ve gotten. The staff is friendly and make sure you check in on Unilocal!There’s a promotion for a free tiny scoop! I highly recommend the dark dark chocolate. So rich and delicious.

Not sure I understand the big appeal of the place. The ice cream was certainly ok, and they honored my Unilocal tiny free scoop. The hot fudge was a disaster, instead of a smooth, silky, and actually hot fudge with that nice rich glossy sheen, I got what looked like a few strands of cold brown spaghetti… by far the weirdest hot fudge I ever had, and it sucked.
The place itself is a bit dated and run down, the place just seems tired and not at all vibrant. I don’t expect Fountain on Locust but I think a little freshening up is in order.

Dang, this homemade ice cream is GOOD! I always get two kid-​size scoops on a cone and it’s the perfect portion. It’s definitely my favorite ice cream in STL.

Nothing beats some good ol’ ice cream for dessert.
Walking in you are immediately basically at the end of the line. The register is right when you walk in, so go straight to the back because that’s where the line starts.
There are a great variety of flavors and all homemade! (at least I’m assuming because of the name). The employees were very helpful allowing you to try any flavor you would like.
I must have tried about 4 or 5 different flavors, which were all very good. I ended up with the spumoni, pistachio ice cream with little bits of cherry, in a waffle cone. I could definitely tell the waffle cone was made in house, just by the way it crumbled in my mouth. The ice cream was very rich and creamy.
There isn’t a lot of seating in the main area (actually I think there was only one table), but don’t fret there is another seating area complete with it’s own STL 250^th Anniversary Cake!
Great place for some ice cream if you are around the area. Definitely wouldn’t mind coming back sometime.

I came here because me and my friends (well okay, mostly me haha) wanted some ice cream after dinner.
When we walked in, the first thing I noticed was the amazing smell! I felt like I was already ingesting ice cream before we even had any samples. And I had many samples, pumpkin pie being one of the them (it was delicious). I might have gotten that except I looooove coffee ice cream, so I went with a tiny scoop of their cappuccino chip. If you check in and buy a regular scoop, they’ll give you a free tiny scoop!
I enjoyed my cappuccino chip ice cream. I ate a lot at dinner, so the tiny scoop was enough for me to be happy but not so much I couldn’t finish. My husband had whatever the pistachio one was called (it also had chocolate chips and cherry pieces in it). I wasn’t too big of a fan, which he probably liked because it meant I didn’t try to eat all of his ice cream!
The employees were friendly and accommodated my copious requests for samples. The next time I go back, I’d like to try the gold coast (they were out when I went) and the bon bons.

I hadn’t tried their ice cream in a couple years and I’d always been so-​so on it — it’s dense and hard, instead of creamy and melty. I prefer the latter.
Before I get into the food, I’ll just say that customer service is… interesting. When I came in, there were four people working behind the counter and not one of them looked up or greeted me. I stood there in complete silence for at least 3 minutes before I was approached. But the girl who helped me ended up being very helpful and very friendly!
Now, onto the ice cream. I briefly considered a brownie sundae, but when I found out that they get them from Sam’s, I knew it wasn’t for me. Instead I got their Salty Malty — a milkshake with vanilla, chocolate and salted caramel ice creams (although I opted to replace the scoop of vanilla with an extra scoop of chocolate). It was absolutely delicious! I will definitely return to try another shake sometime soon!

Took the wife and kids there last weekend because it was highly recommended from a friend.
The place was small and well decorated. The ice cream choices were varied and the flavor was good. BUT… the prices are ridiculously high. For three ice cream cones we spent $ 18…NEVER AGAIN!
I can buy 5 containers of ice cream at the grocery store for that price and treat the family to ice cream for an entire week.
This place is good for yuppies or if you really need to impress your friends… but not a good value otherwise.

I was expecting better.
Took my wife and grandkids here. We were all under-​whelmed.
There are many better choices around town.

Hands down the best ice cream in St. Louis, if not the best I’ve ever had. I get a scoop of gold coast chocolate and a scoop of cinnamon – a combo of the gods.
The owner is the nicest lady you will ever meet and I love supporting her and her local ice cream shop!

For years, I had heard great things about Serendipity’s ice cream. I finally decided to try it a few weeks ago. I started off by heading to Unilocal to see what people recommended. I saw that Serendipity had a four-​star rating after 80 reviews. Wow! They only had a handful of negative reviews, so I was convinced that this ice cream was going to be great. I grabbed my husband, and we headed to Webster Groves.
Unfortunately, I was really disappointed. I wasn’t sure what they would be offering on that day, but I was hoping to have Cookie Monster and Gooey Butter Cake. Well, they were out of Cookie Monster. I saw Cake Batter listed on the display case, and that would have been my replacement for Cookie Monster. However, they were out of that also. So, I ended up with Pistachio and Gooey Butter Cake. My husband got Cookie Dough and Gooey Butter Cake.
Two scoops is a good amount of ice cream, but for the two of us, it ended up costing around $ 12. I don’t have a problem with paying more for a quality dessert, but this was pretty average. I left wishing I had spent my money (and calories) on something else. I didn’t bother to take a picture of my ice cream because honestly, it would not have been very flattering. It was just two scoops of ice cream in a plain Styrofoam container. Plenty of pictures like that have already been posted. Serendipity has a fun name and a cute storefront. You’d think they’d want to proudly give you their homemade ice cream in branded cups.
People on Unilocal really seemed to love the Gooey Butter Cake ice cream. I LOVE gooey butter cake. It has a nice ooey-​gooey layer on top of a drier cake layer. My favorite part is the ooey-​gooey, and I tasted absolutely none of that in this ice cream. What we had seemed to be a vanilla ice cream with dry cakey bits in it. If you had asked me to guess what flavor it was, I would have never guessed that it was supposed to taste like gooey butter cake. There was hardly any left when we ordered ours, and they really had to work to give both of us a scoop. Maybe it just wasn’t mixed well, and we ended up with scoops lacking in flavor. I don’t know.
The Pistachio was weird. I’ve had pistachio ice cream before, and this was like nothing I’ve ever tasted. It had some pistachio bits in it, but it also had these odd green flecks that did not have the taste or texture of a pistachio. I don’t know what they were. The Pistachio also had a strange flavor. It sort of had a bite to it. It took me a while to figure it out, but it tasted like Jell-​O Sugar-​Free Pistachio Pudding.
My husband’s Cookie Dough ice cream was okay, but it really was not anything better than what you would buy at the grocery store. The grocery store ice cream also would have been cheaper.
On a positive note, the employees were friendly. As other reviewers have said, they offer free Lactaid at the counter. Be sure to get one if you are Lactose intolerant, even if you carry your own. You are paying for it with the high-​priced ice cream.
I hate to be a hater, but I have to give them two stars. I wanted to give them three, but Unilocal defines three stars as «A-​OK.» It definitely was more of a «Meh. I’ve experienced better.» dessert, and that’s two stars. With all of the great reviews, I was expecting this to be some of the best, creamiest ice cream I’ve ever had. It wasn’t. I have no desire to have the Gooey Butter Cake again, and I’ve definitely had better Pistachio and better Cookie Dough ice cream in my life. This was not horrible ice cream; it just wasn’t great. That’s my opinion, however. Go try it for yourself, and see what you think.

I wanted to try this place so bad that I disregarded the fact that I’m lactose intolerant, which worked out fabulously because there is a little cup of lactaid pills right by the register… BRILLIANT. After sampling half the flavors, which were all delicious, I (surprise, surprise) ended up with the flavor I get at every ice cream place – cake batter. I definitely tasted the difference between the ice cream here vs chains (aka coldstone, BR, etc). It was a lot smoother, creamier, fresher (can ice cream be described as fresh?) – whatever, it was better. I was sad that they didn’t have pistachio flavor that day (I was forewarned their flavors change daily). The only flavor they won’t let you sample is their Irish Car Bomb, because its expensive to make (due to the real liquor) and a pain to make as well. We took a chance and got it. I personally didn’t care for it only because I’m really sensitive to the taste of liquor. My friend LOVED it though and he is not an ice cream fan. It tastes.well.like a cold irish car bomb. It’s a very interesting taste. There’s a definite taste of the liquor, but its not strong and then it fades and then you wonder if you really tasted the liquor in the first place so you try another bite, and so forth… We also tried the bon bons, which were good. The outside coating of chocolate was thin, I was expecting a thicker layer of chocolate. It really kind of tasted like those Edys bites to me. I dug the location too, there were little shops nearby so we just strolled around eating our ice cream. I can’t wait to try their pistachio ice cream!
If you check in on Unilocal,you get a free tiny scoop. I chose the cookie monster because of the beautiful blue color and fun name – yum!

So I must say that serendipity ice cream is hands down the best ice cream in St. Louis. I know you can go to other places (shall remain nameless) where you can overpay for a massive bowl of stuff where they entice you with «mix-​ins» and singing at you to distract from the fact that their factory made ice cream is mediocre. Serendipity rolls out unique new flavors all the time that you know are going to be high quality, because they are made in house. There is a reason why most of the best restaurants in the Lou serve Serendipity ice cream. The Gold Coast is dense but rich and the cinnamon is awesome. I high recommend.

My first experience with Serendipity was at a recent Unilocal event, and I have to say it was a big hit with me and my wife.
First off, I’m not a huge Ice Cream guy. So far from it in fact, that I wouldn’t be able to tell you the difference from ice cream or frozen yogurt, but I digress.
The one thing I do know is that after having tried Cinnamon ice cream a few years ago, it is very apparent that this stuff isn’t sold in stores. After probably a year or two of looking at every frozen section of every grocery store I went to, I finally found a place to pick up some good olé’ «cinnamony icey creams.» That’s not what Serendipity calls its Cinnamon flavored ice cream, that’s just what I call it when I’m trekking through another Shop N Save and my wife asks what the hell I’m looking for.
«nothing babe, just looking to see if they have any cinnamony icey creams!»
Anyway, needless to say, Serendipity served up a scoop of goodness and cured a craving a year in the making. I will most definitely be back, and maybe next time I will remember to ask about buying a half gallon or so at a time, and save a trip or two every now and then!

If it were not for Aaron B. I would have never discovered the Bön Bons here at Serendipity. He is so right, they are the BOMB BOMB. They’re the perfect ice cream treat. They’re the famously flavorful Serendipity ice cream dipped in chocolate which forms a hard shell. They’re bite size and you can’t just stop at one.
I love that Serendipity is expanding their brand beyond their parlor in Webster Groves. Recently I enjoyed a mini cone at Five Star Burgers and I always ask at local restaurants who does their ice cream before ordering. Serendipity always closes the deal. While at a recent Unilocal event at SHIC, Beckie announced to us that her ice cream will be available at Field Foods.
If Serendipity keeps expanding their brand, my waist will expand too. Who needs Ben & Jerry when you have Serendipity in our hometown.

BON BONS ARE THE BOMB BOMB.
Seriously. I came her after dinner at Milagro and it was the perfect follow up to dinner on a winter night… welllll maybe something warmer would have been better. But I don’t care.
I LIKE ICE CREAM.
This time, I said, «Skrew you scoops! I’m just getting Bön Bons.»
I got chocolate, mint, and coffee. I was being a foodie and trying all 3 but you know what… coffee is by far the best. If I could go back in a time machine with the knowledge I have now, I would get all coffee bonbonz. Yes, I bought 3 and it was perfect.
My spare tire says I should have only got 2, but my tongue was happy. Get three… or 4… or 5. You earned it.
Bonbonz 4 lyfe.

All you really need to know is they carry Gooey Butter Cake ice cream…
When I go jogging, I often need to leave my credit card at home — because it could get dangerous and be completely counterproductive.
The kids beg for it — and I often want to oblige.
Price is excellent and the owner is a self-​made lady who is savvy and built all of this herself. I was impressed and hope that this plays stays a Webster staple!

Definitely the best ice cream in STL! You’ve probably had it even if you haven’t been to the shop, be cause tons of local restaurants use it in their desserts.
Stopped by the shop the other night after a concert down the street. It was the perfect night for an ice cream cone! They have several flavors, some conventional and some not. I went for the mint chocolate chip on this occasion. Definitely my old favorite. It was perfect, with small and yummy chips equally distributed throughout the scoop. Nice sized scoop for just a couple bucks on a cake cone. Yummmm!
Other flavors I like are salted caramel and salted caramel with chocolate chips in it. Yum! They have drumstick desserts here too — dipped cones. Also you can buy containers of various flavors.
Definitely a must try for any St. Louisan!!!

Things I love about this place:
1) They have a tiny scoop! Most places give you so much ice cream that I can never finish it and end up throwing half of it away.
2) It’s cheap! I hate spending $ 7 on ice cream. Especially when I can buy a whole carton for $ 5. A tiny scoop on a sugar cone is less than $ 2.
3) The gooey butter ice cream is AMAZING!
4) The young high school kids who served us were so friendly!