Cone E Island

Unfortunately, this place is closing at the end of the month, but I would like to leave a note of praise and appreciation. I have been going to Cone E Island for years, from the start of undergrad until now. They have always delivered great service and a good variety of ice cream flavors. The cookies are wonderful as well! I only gave four stars because they don’t make ice cream sandwiches, given that they have ice cream and cookies. Even when I offered to buy two cookies and a scoop of ice cream to suffice. Oh well. Thank you, Cone E Island, for being one of my favorite dessert spots.

Went here with some friends Friday night. It’s a tiny place but they try to make best of the limited space they have available. Once you get your ice cream, you can walk up a short flight of stairs to a tiny lounge area that sits over the actual counter. There are a couple of couches and a few tables up there, and my friends and I managed to find a seat but I can imagine the later it gets, the more crowded.
I had the Dulce de Leche and it was pricey but good. There’s really nowhere to move along the counter, and make sure you move all the way down because there are more flavors! A friend had the «Sneakers Bar» and didn’t enjoy it. Extra toppings are a whopping dollar each, and with a small bowl already being $ 3.25, I wouldn’t advise shelling out that much money just to load up – you’re probably better off going to a frozen yogurt place and paying by the ounce.
The music blaring in the spot was loud but decent. The flickering neon ice cream cone signs and the disco ball (no, really) were obnoxious and gave me a headache. Personally, I would’ve kept the disco ball and taken down the flickering signs. Also odd was the fact that there were maybe 8 people sitting upstairs, including my friends and me, and yet there was a police officer sitting at the very end of one of the couches and a guard sitting by the radio. They weren’t eating ice cream, either, so, uh… Does this place have a late-​nite problem with people stealing cookie dough crumbles or something?
I’d probably go again to try their chai, but I’ll go to Dunkin Donuts for my ice cream fix next time.

Had the best brownie sundae I have ever had. You get to pick the kind of brownie you want in your sundae and can top it with any kind of ice cream you want. I had the cream cheese swirl brownie with chocolate peanut butter ice cream topped with hot carmel and chocolate syrup. It has heaven in a cup. My friend had the cookies and cream ice cream and she swears it is the best she has ever had. It may appear a little pricey when you walk in door but it is worth it

Pricey, but decent if you’re in the mood for a few (SMALL) scoops of ice cream or frozen yogurt. As far as I know, there aren’t many ice cream shops in the immediate area, so it’s kind of your only choice. Skip the cookies and brownies, unless they’re FRESH outta the oven.

Great place — not very busy on the weekends anyway. Lots of choices for ice cream and yogurt. The service was very good as well. I had peach and mango ice cream (a scoop of each) with coconut topping. Not expensive either, which is a plus for snacks!

Cone E looks like a perfect mix of garish and delicious from the outside. It looks like the kind of place that doesn’t need to pretty itself up on the outside, because it probably does a damn good job on the inside.
After swimming through the swampy lake that is DC humidity after the July 4 fireworks, my friends and I came here, only to be greeted by a long line. I am unfazed by long lines. The longer, the better. Hell, give me a twenty minute fast-​moving line and I’ll be utterly convinced that this is the place to be.
Not so with Cone E.
The set up is all wrong. You think you’re getting the ten or so flavors that you’re presented with upon reaching the register. Once they hand you your ice cream and you slide over to the left to make room for the next customer… oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you had Mud Slide, Strawberry Cheesecake, and Butter Pecan, along with five other flavors on this side as well! Not only that, but the place is plastered heavily with pictures of their wares, but with no cohesiveness. You’re not quite sure where to look. Their fruit ice creams are neon pink and green – evoking nostalgic memories of sticky blue raspberry and cotton candy flavored lollipops and popsicles – but as an adult, these colors don’t entice me quite as much anymore.
I got cookies n’ cream, and was significantly underwhelmed. It was a little icy. Not that creamy. Insignificant.
And then I got an Oreo COOKIE, after the coaxing of my companions. I let them one have a bite, and we both proclaimed it as «expecting it to be a lot better than it is.» There wasn’t that much Oreo flavor: just sugar and butter and dough. And as my sweet tooth was still raring to go, I got the white chocolate macadamic cookie, only to get one that was CRUNCHY, of all things! Oh, the blasphemy! The sacrilege! Who eats crunchy cookies! Not even crunchy as in homemade-​baked-​crisp-​on-​edges-​crunchy – it was «I’ve been sitting here behind the glass window for two whole days crunchy.»
Would I purchase again? Probably not.

The ice cream is decent and the yogurt is pretty disappointing.
Maybe I just didn’t order the right stuff — the huge brownies on display and the cookies all looked really good. But it was about 90 degrees out, so we went with ice cream instead.
I got a cone with the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream, which was surprisingly underwhelming for this flavor. In my disappointment, with my craving for peanut butter unsatisfied, I decided to try some of the Peanut Butter Frozen Yogurt.
Again, very disappointed. It was probably as healthy as they advertised, because the taste was very subtle and not nearly rich enough. I prefer the overly sweet peanut butter yogurt you get at the self-​serve frozen yogurt chains. If you want fat free and no chemicals though, then this may be the place for you.

It’s not the best ice cream I’ve ever had, but it’s not bad, either. They use Jack & Jill ice cream, which I hadn’t tried before, but it’s fairly tasty. I liked my caramel cone flavor and thought the prices were reasonable. A cute GW couple was working when we stopped in, and they were very friendly. I’d pop in if looking for ice cream in the area again.

So good! They have many light choices and their brownies are to die for!

I was visiting the area on vacation and was craving some Ice Cream. I looked up on Unilocal and luckily found this gem, Cone E Island.
Its your standard ice cream shop with many different flavors. I went with a single scoop of vanilla in a cup. It was reasonably priced and it satisfied my ice cream hunger.
If you’re looking for a dessert place around the area or craving some ice cream you should try this place out.

I typically come here after lunch/​dinner with a friend or two since it’s right on GW campus. They have some interesting ice cream flavors that isn’t typically found elsewhere, but ice cream itself doesn’t appeal too much to me. What I like to do though, is get a cookie or a brownie heated up in a cup, then put a scoop of ice cream on top of it… TRY IT! It’s actually really good because the cookie/​brownie is warm and soft (and they do have pretty yummy baked goods) while the ice cream is nice and melty!
The only thing I don’t like about this place is it’s tiny upstairs and the obnoxiously-​loud music. As I said, I come here typically after a meal with friends, but the music makes it difficult to even have a conversation.

Chocolate éclair ice cream. Enough said. (See picture).
Okay, fine, one more thing. It’s on the edge of George Washington University’s campus. Great post-​dinner date place? I think so.
Okay, fine, another thing. The ambiance is youthful. Imagine florescent ice cream cones along the wall, an upstairs area with a comfy couch, and a big speaker bumping some nice techno. I felt like I was back in college. Nice.
And did I mention, chocolate éclair ice cream? I hope this wasn’t a limited time offer flavor.

Passed this place a bunch of times since I live in the area, but never ventured in. Finally had a reason to when a few friends wanted to get ice cream. I wasn’t really in the mood, but the brownies looked good so I decided to get one of those instead. It wasn’t bad, probably would have tasted better warm… it was a little on the dry side, definitely looked fresher/​moister than it actually was. I was underwhelmed, it was a $ 2.20 that was not well spent.
Is it my fault for having a brownie at an ice cream place? Probably. But it was worth a shot… and now we know.

They have amazing flavors. I rarely see them have cupcakes anymore but when they did/​do, they are amazing. The brownies are really good, too. Also, it’s great that they have low-​fat flavors.
I just wish they accepted credit cards. It would also be nice if there was a seating area, even if it was small.

Good:
–Interesting and tasty flavors
–Great options in addition to ice cream, including brownies
–Friendly staff
–Convenient hours
Bad:
–Would be five stars if the prices were lower
–Cramped space (somewhat unnecessary, such as an archaic video game where people stand in line)

The service is fast at this loud and gaudy ice cream shoppe at the edge of the GWU campus, in large part because they have been very well staffed every time I’ve been in there. The friendliness of the service is a bit subdued, but I can’t say I blame them. If I had to work in a cramped environment with disco-​volume music and bright, flashing lights, I might be a little cranky as well!
The ice creams here are all very good (the mango is my new favorite) and priced on par with most other urban creameries (about $ 3 for a one scoop cone). There seem to be different baked goods on the counter every time I’ve been in there, all placed strategically at eye level, which makes them nearly impossible to resist. So I succumbed to an Oreo crunch cookie, which sounded much better than it actually tasted … like an undercooked slab of frozen sugar cookie dough with an almost flavorless Oreo crumbs swirl. Blah.
So keep your eyes on the ice cream, as that’s what has kept this place in business for almost three decades … and is clearly what they do best.

I walked by many many times, always laughing at the super loud rap music, before actually going in. Perhaps this is a special place in the hearts of GWU students and alumni? It’s not a special place to me, but good if I need a nearby ice cream fix.
Ice cream is fine, but nothing crazy special… well, except the hip hop and neon lights!

I went here all the time as a student at GW (1996 – 2000). I was curious to try it when I had time following lunch at Lindy’s on 12−2−10.
When you enter, the smell is great. Must be hot fudge or something. I ordered the low-​cal NY Cheesecake frozen yogurt. It was $ 3 for a small cone, a little much. That’s what you can charge when you take GWorld points!
The cone was OK. Not bad for low-​cal but you could tell by taste it wasn’t very decadent.
Cone-​E-​Island is good if you’re a local and up for some frozen yogurt or ice cream. Nothing spectacular though.

I am not ashamed to admit that every once in a while, I eat a small spoon full of peanut butter out of the jar. I love PB that much. That is why I was so happy when I first discovered the peanut butter skinny minnie is full of peanut buttery flavor, but has a fraction of the fat and calories (though it wouldn’t surprise me if it had a lot of sugar). I appreciate that they do introduce new, interesting skinny minne flavors, but it usually takes a lot for me to stray from the peanut butter.
Oh, and don’t forget to bring cash. Luckily there is a Bank of America across the plaza area, and a CVS right next door.

Cone E Island, you have fat free peanut butter frozen yogurt. For this I give you 5 stars. Thank you for keeping it real with the froyo, and for being one of the last to do so.
I heart you Cone E!