Graeters Ice Cream

If you’re looking for a delicious ice cream shop, look no further! Right in the heart of Chevy Chase neighborhood, Graeter’s is the perfect place to drop by after lunch/​dinner, or anytime really. It’s in walking distance of lots of restaurants making it the perfect post-​meal treat. The store has plenty of seating if you want to stay or you can grab a pint to go. The employees are friendly and helpful.
Be sure to sample a few flavors before deciding on one. My top picks are the seasonal «cherry chip» and the year round «double chocolate chip.» For PB and chocolate lovers, the «buckeye» is your favorite thing you didn’t know you were missing.
My two cents, do yourself a favor and go here ASAP.

Third times a charm. Great service and ice cream:)
Customer service here is awful. I have given this place two tries now and are really disappointed. I get it this is a very popular and busy ice cream shop. However I have seen wet mops with more personality than some of these kids working behind the counter. We were not looking for the singing of cold stone staff however not even a hello or a smile.
Also both times I could not get my money out right away to pay while trying to balance a few ice cream cones. The high school employee saw that I was struggling and just starred at me. I finally asked if he could just hold one of the ice cream cones so I could get out my credit card/​cash.
Since we moved here Everyone has raved about the ice cream. The ice cream is good. The whole experience was ruined with poor customer service.

Graeters is by far the best ice cream I’ve ever had in the Cincinnati area. It’s their chocolate «chips» that put their ice cream light years ahead of others. Regardless of the location, service is always stellar.

Got the banana chocolate chip milkshake. It was pretty amazing. The prices just seemed astronomical though.

Listen, Graeter’s is hands down the best ice cream in the nation and it’s a dang shame there aren’t more left in Lexington. You really can’t go wrong here, but the chocolate chunk flavors are the real stars (trust me, any and all of them). It’s the only ice cream place that puts HUGE chunks of real, rich, salty chocolate in the mix, sometimes with pieces so big you have to pull them out with your teeth. If you haven’t had Graeter’s, you haven’t lived.
I’ve also never come across an unfriendly Graeter’s employee — they take pride in what they do and will show you some true Southern kindness.
Park for free in the lot next door.

Every time I go here the kids working the counter are slammed but keep on a happy face and keep the lines moving. Everything I have tried is delicious and perfect for a summer night. I can’t say anything bad about it at all, and I’ve gone a million times. I don’t even think of going anywhere else when I want ice cream.

I’m originally from Cincinnati and grew up on Graeters ice cream. When I spied this Graeters shop 100 miles away in Lexington’s Hamburg neighborhood, I lit up. My favorite Graeters flavors are Mint Chocolate Chip and butter pecan and they were both on the menu.
But what a let down. Something has changed. Both flavors of ice cream were blah with not much flavor. The chocolate mint was no longer green. The ice cream also seemed to have some kind of artificial thickener (i.e. carob or guar gum) –sort of like Coldstone’s ice cream (yuck). That would be completely contrary to the Graeter’s brand that I remember as being pure custard based ice cream.
The restaurant was staffed by teens was pleasant but they seemed unfamiliar with their product. The ice cream isn’t cheap but the servings are generous.

Such yummy ice cream and very friendly/​sweet staff. My sister had a hot fudge sundae and said it was amazing. Her fiancé tried the bourdon ice cream and loved it. I just had regular mint chocolate chip and it was sooo good. Very creamy. Will def be back!

LOVE. GREAT ice cream especially is your an ice cream lover :) It is a little pricey… but isn’t everything that’s awesome a little costly? :)
They are super busy evenings and weekends but lines move fast :)

I mean who doesn’t like ice cream? And who doesn’t like Greater’s Ice Cream. I am not a yogurt fan, I like ICE CREAM! In fact I LOVE Ice Cream. I could eat it everyday for the rest of my life! I mean it, everyday… I even get the pints and take them home. Of course I have a favorite, who doesn’t right? Mocha Chip, hands down is the best ice cream I have ever tasted in my life! I love it as a milkshake too! It is perfection in a cup. The way the coffee ice cream is blended with milk, its like sweet coffee with cream with dark chocolate chunks… Who wouldn’t like that? Who wouldn’t want that everyday for the rest of their life? I do try other stuff, said not me ever… but I will try my kids stuff, and they do have the little spoons to give you a sample, but why mess with perfection right? My son thinks the Cotton Candy ice cream rocks, but we don’t listen to him. And my daughter thinks the Raspberry Chip is the best, but why would you listen to her either!!! Wait Raspberry chip is actually pretty good though, I won’t lie, but I still win!

4.5 stars; Graeters has almost everything I want from an ice cream shop: great ice cream, gelato, sorbet, and friendly staff. They don’t have exotic flavors but I’m OK with the choices they offer. The shop is inviting and clean. Would be 5 stars if they had more inside and outside seating.
They also offer catered sundae buffets, an ice cream cart for fund raising events, and they’ll prepare a 6 or 12 pack travel case with dry ice that they say will stay frozen for 24 hours.

Now that was yummy! But I was soooooo full it was hard to eat a small even. Delicious ice cream with many flavors. Be sure to ask for a sample before committing to a taste.

Parking was difficult to find, but the food was same as it always is! Service was great.

They’re Baaaaaaak! I was so pleased to hear that a year after closing all Lexington locations, they opened back up next to McAlister’s.
Go here and try the black raspberry chocolate chip. It’s got huge hunks of excellent chocolate and they’re famous for the flavor for good reason. The place is a Cincinnati institution and for good reason. Now stores in Lexington and Louisville extend the reach of their waist-​endangering goodness! I’ve never had a bad scoop at Graeters.
They’re open late in the summer, too.

This place is over priced. There are not as many flavor choices as I was expecting, and $ 10+ for two people to have an ice cream treat is just too much. Milkshakes are practically the price of a small meal. I had chocolate gelato. It was average. I’ve had better. I’d just stick with buying from the frozen section of the grocery store rather than visiting this place.

Gorgeous ice cream. Glad they returned to Lexingtion. Love to try their seasonal flavors, available for a limited time. Bourbon ball is one of my favorites, blackberry,. I could go on. .…
Join their Birthday Club and get a free sundae during your birthday month.

As a fan of of FroJo, and not a huge ice cream fan, this was my first visit. It was clean and inviting. Their posted Health Inspection score was 100% too.
What’s with the people who set up shop at the out door seating though?! Eat your ice cream and leave for Gods sake!
The guy at the counter was extremely nice and immediately mentioned that we could try anything that we wanted. We tried chocolate peanut butter cup and mint chocolate chip and then decided to go with the Banana Special for $ 5.99, two scoops, two syrups, pecans, whipped cream and a cherry. I slammed it like a kid in an ice cream shop!
They sell small ice cream to go too and I noticed that they also sell Graeters at Kroger’s too, but the to go containers at Graters are a few cents cheaper.
After we exited, I noticed the same table hogs at the outdoor seating, no ice cream in sight. I guess I’m just jealous because I didn’t get to enjoy my ice cream outside.
I called about parking and they said that their parking is behind the store, turn into the u-​shaped drive across from Farmers Jewelry. I didn’t have to park there though because there street parking available when I pulled up in front of GCB.

Gotta admit when you can share a single scoop, you got a like to like!
Nice clean facility. Very friendly shop employees in Chevy Chases’ «Hood».
What is that Chevy Chase namesake everywhere all about anyway?
The single scoop of coffee ice cream was good, but my heart belongs to «Coffee Lover’s», which isn’t a fair fight considering all that goes into that complex concoction.
I really should have picked something more unique to critique!

Smooth, creamy, deliciousness. Too bad it’s not near home.
Overall thoughts: Black Raspberry Chip and anything with Coffee are my picks.

Great ice cream for a great price. I tried the peanut butter brownie and salted caramel.
The service could have been better. My server had an attitude.