Ollie’s

Throw back! This place serves the kind of icecreams you used to be able to buy from the local dairy as a kid (well, if you’re a 90’s babe).
Dozens of flavours to choose from, old school choc dip option, and absolutely HUGE scoops. Total value for money here, the toughest bit is choosing which flavours to get… Salted Caramel is always a fave.

This place is an institution and I have many fond memories growing up coming here. Who wouldn’t love a giant banana split? They are everything you’d ever want and more. Spacies are a bonus :)

Ollies is my favourite ice cream shop in Auckland. There is nothing fancy about it. I have grown up with Ollies living around the corner and I have never been disappointed. The majority of the ice cream served is Tip Top, but no one expects anything more from a shop that has been around for years with the same one owner.
Tucked in Royal Oak, Ollies also serves burgers and fries etc but everyone comes for the huge scoops of ice cream and the hot fudge sauce. If you think you can contain the messiness of ice cream on a cone I recommend ordering your ice cream dipped in choc. If you are a ice cream lover, you can go as far as a getting a three scoop sundae with hot fudge sauce, whipped cream, nuts and a cherry. They have roughly 20 flavours to choose from. My favourite flavour which you can’t buy in stores is Pineapple Choc Chunk — pineapple lump flavour is a must try! Other alternatives are milkshake and thick shakes with any flavour ice cream.
If your an ice cream lover, you can’t get anymore kiwi authentic then ollies.
Rating
Food: ⁹⁄₁₀
Service: ⁹⁄₁₀
Value for Money: Good
802 Manukau Road, Royal Oak
Opening Hours:
Mon-​Thurs, Sun 11am-​10pm
Fri-​Sat 11am-​11pm

Ollie’s is a classic hang out spot in Suburban Central Auckland. This used to be a buzzing hotspot but has slowly declined with various other ice cream shops and frozen yoghurt stores opening up all over Auckland.
The ice cream itself was not too spectacular for me, but they do have a selection of other desserts and sundaes which I might try sometime. A nice casual place to catch up with some friends for a late night chat if you’re not wanting to hit a bar.

I recently visited Ollie’s again for the first time in nearly ten years (!) and boy was I transported back to the days when hotdogs and icecream solved everything. Icecream is still one of my favorite therapists and I remembered Ollie’s has a pretty sick selection including some flavors like Candy Floss which I don’t see around a lot. I hear a lot that their service is quite bad. mostly surly part-​timing teenagers who’d rather be texting their friends than serving icecream. The day I went there was a girl who seemed exactly like the specimen I just described but the young man serving me was very nice and reminded me a lot of Jeremy Freedman from The Simpsons.
I got a grilled cheese sandwich and a banana split which I realllllly underestimated. The grilled cheese was nothing to go wild over but it’s a grilled cheese. cheese and bread. and that’s exactly what I got. For my banana split you get a choice of three flavors as well as piles of whipped cream, variety of sauces and sprinkles. Yay! But around a third of the way in I started to get the icecream-​bloat and with no one willing to help me I had to finish that sucker off on my own. For the average person it’s probably better to share unless you’ve been wandering through the forest for the last ten years and it’s the first thing you’re eating since your return to civilization. Then you could probably eat one on your own.

Ollie’s is ice cream the way that you’re Grandparents would’ve had over their first date. None of this sorbet or gelato. Just old fashioned, delicious, creamy, ice cream. It’s in a seriously cute building that makes you feel like you’re back in the fifties.
Every time I go there are streams of people in there for their ice cream fix. It’s a great place for the family, a first date, or after a harsh break up. Here you can celebrate or eat away your sorrows with the most delicious ice cream delights. There’s huge sundaes, smoothies, and my favourite, waffle cones.
It is on a bit of a crazy round-​a-​bout so you’ll need to be a bit careful when trying to find the store or a park.
We like to get our ice creams to go and take the across to Cornwall Park which is just down the road. So ideal!

I remember driving past Ollie’s when you’d go through the big scary roundabout at Royal Oak. We never had any places like it where I grew up; no real, actual ice cream parlours whatsoever, so Ollie’s Burger & Ice Cream joint was always the place I wanted to go to. It’s full on proper old school, with 60s décor, in a cool way, not in a crappy Burger King way. They’ve got a billion flavours of ice cream, from traditional vanilla and hokey pokey to more fancy styles. They’ve got burgers and fries, toppings, milkshakes — everything a good ice cream parlour should. The service isn’t the best, but to be fair, they work in an ice cream parlour — would you be super happy all of the time? But they ice cream is yummy and I like to come here after dinner or after the movies, just for the sake of it. It’s also a fun place to bring kids if they haven’t bee here before, because it’s something new and something different, which is always a winner.

Ollie’s is great because it’s really adhered to the old «don’t go changing» line when it comes to its business model. A Royal Oak institution for decades, Ollie’s has stood proudly in red and white, offering up gigantic ice creams and satisfying milkshakes to children and the childlike. When a massive hankering for ice cream overcome my friends and I recently, we all headed along there and built three scoop ice creams from the traditional Kiwi flavours on offer. I absolutely had to get Goody Goody Gumdrops and Gold Rush… Gold Rush! There’s an ice cream that I haven’t had in ages. If you haven’t had Gold Rush before, try it — it’s little pieces of Crunchie bar in a yummy honey caramel ice cream.

Ollie’s Burgers and Ice Cream has become a bit of a legend in Auckland. Having opened in the 1970s, Ollie’s has earned its reputation as one of the best ice-​cream parlours around.
With flavours like caramel fudge, butterscotch pecan, Jamaican lime, licorice allsorts and raspberry and lemonade fizz on hand, the selection is unbeatable and there is something to suit every member of the family. As if choosing an ice cream flavour wasn’t hard enough, Ollie’s patrons are then faced with deciding between regular or waffle cones, milkshakes or thickshakes, sundaes or banana splits.
My last trip to Ollie’s I was overwhelmed by all the options and ended up settling on a two scoop sundae, complete with caramel sauce, cream, nuts, wafer and glacé cherry. Needless to say it was incredible — too incredible in fact. Despite being way too full and actually feeling quite sick, I proceeded to east the entire sundae. A word of warning — unless you are absolutely craving a massive sugar hit, beware of the sundaes!
Ollie’s also offers a great selection of takeaway-​type food; burgers, toasted sandwiches, nuggets, hotdogs, chips and fritters — you don’t just have to stick to their ice cream range.
The one issue I have with Ollie’s is the décor. I know it has been around for forty years and is trying to maintain their 1970s atmosphere, but a wee facelift wouldn’t hurt. Otherwise, I have no qualms with the place and happily recommend it to anyone after some delicious dessert!

Ollies has been around for as long as I can remember and even better, it’s barely changed a bit. It was my local ice cream parlour as a kid, back when going to an ice cream parlour was a treat. It was just across the roundabout from our other big treat Pizza Hut. Yep, waaaaaay back then.
It retains its cool 60s décor and as far as I know is still owned by the Haines family who pretty much everyone in the greater One Tree Hill area has some association with. The big pull here is of course ice cream — 30ish flavours with all the toppings and sauces. They also do burgers, chips and the like; I’ve had a particularly good experience with the Nachos and lovely greasy toasties.
You also can’t go wrong with the milkshakes but AVOID AVOID the coffee. Last winter this was one of our two usual post soccer spots and even the staff will try and talk you out of having their coffee. It’s from a tin. Nuff said. They are so nice here though that it’s not a problem to bring your coffee from elsewhere as long as the kids are having a good old feed.
There are spacies in the corner (oh I remember the days when you could banned from the spacies room here) and the teenage service is… what it is. My personal recommendation would be to come here after dinner for a sundae — Coconut Marshmallow, that most rare and delicious of flavours, English Toffee and Cookies’n’Cream with hot fudge sauce. Just don’t eat it too often. Long may Ollies stay the same — so few things do.