JJ Ice Cream

I love, love, LOVE this place. It is like a kids wonderland of awesomeness! Ice Cream, Candy, Toys it’s a place that kids & grownups would love. Today was Praline & Pecans BUT this time instead of two scoops & ventured & had Strawberry Cheesecake as the other scoop. I see the sun it’s time for JJ Ice Cream! The guy who is there always in a great mood, love to see him too!

It’s everything I like for Saturday afternoon. Lots of toys and stickers! Plus he has really cool ice cream flavors! My favorite is… No I can’t say, it will ruin the surprise for you! Even though my picture gives it away :)) there is no soft serve, just in case you were wondering.

Who is the nice friendly guy I’m reading about in some of these reviews? The man behind the counter every time we go in there is grumpy, unfriendly, and has a miserable vibe. Even with our 2.5 year old, he’s just grumpy and rude. You’d think an ice cream/​candy/​toy store would be a fun, happy place. Not with this guy! We’ll just walk down the street for ice cream next time.

I came here when I got a coupon for ice cream from my hairdresser. When he saw that was holding the coupon he immediately took back one of the scoops he had put on my cone, back into the tub.

Next time you’re there, ask him why he sells drug paraphernalia (hemp leaf lighters) and pornographic lighters (young women seductively removing clothes) in a shop who’s main clientele is children.

Decent ice-​cream place if you’re in the neighborhood.

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Nice friendly guy at the counter.
Two scoops on a regular cone – pistachio on the top and huckleberry on the bottom.
Dee-​lish.

Really awesome place!!!
Ice cream, sandwiches, candy, snacks, drinks, toys. Pretty much everything.
Everything is competitively and fairly priced, and portions for sandwiches and ice cream are huge! Single scoops ($ 2.25) are more like double scoops here!
The owner is really nice, and will always try to help you out! It does get busy sometimes (avoid the time the school across the street gets let out. that’s when all the kids storm the place).

I am a very open minded customer when I go out to eat anything, but I have to say I was very dissapointed with how bad the product was in this instance. I have gone to many ice cream shops (both name brands, and small shops) and have never had such a horrible cup of ice cream. I have to say, and this is not an exaggeration, it tasted like vomit. I wish that wasn’t the case because I truly believe in supporting small businesses, but unfortunately in this case it was that bad. I even went as far as taking another small taste after the awful first one, thinking it may just be me, but it got worse than the first one. Lastly, the gentleman behind the counter was not friendly, didn’t even look at me and my girlfriend while we were ordering; just a very poor experience overall. Hope the next small ice cream shop will be much better.

Nice friendly guy at the counter and you get a lot of ice cream in a quart for $ 6.50!

The ice cream was fine. I really appreciated the nice assortment of $ 1 candy bags which contained some really top-​notch candies.
I asked if I could have some rainbow sprinkles on my vanilla gelato filled sugar cone. He said, «No.» It was really disappointing and I really did not understand his logic; there was a huge container of sprinkles sitting above the counter.

Less than terrible twos.
Two J’s in the name. Namesake might be the kind gentleman running the place.
Two distinct businesses: food and toys.
Two ways of immaturely interpreting «meaty goodness» and «eight inches» on the menu.
Two meals from a sandwich so large it would be impossible to finish all at once.
Eight inches indeed. Piled high with freshly sliced turkey and tomato goodness. Pickles and less too plus cheese if you’d like. Wheat roll. Free soda if aspartame is your thing.
So big a rubber band is needed to keep the takeout container closed. Just three $ 2 bills.
Only thing not in the two theme are the five stars.

Knowing that I was in the Sunset, and probably (actually) just a short walk from far better boba places, I really kind of hate myself for getting a boba drink here. Really, really mediocre boba, and this is coming from someone who’s kind of become an expert in mediocre boba — I live in the NW, home of mediocre boba!
They do have all manner of ice cream and candy treats and toys even, too, though I didn’t partake. So if that’s your thing, perhaps you may take fancy to JJ’s. But as far as bubble tea goes, do yourself a favor and go somewhere else.

Toys
Ice cream
Gelato
Prices = reasonable. (For ice cream, and the toys. Lots of nostalgia!)
Oh, did I mention toys???
Yeah, it’s a win-​win situation!

the vanilla ice cream here is featured by the 7×7 mag for being one of the 7 best in the city, but honestly, i disagree. for the texture of the ice cream, yes, it’s VERY creamy and rich-​tasting, but at the same time, there’s not very much vanilla flavor to the ice cream, after a few spoonfuls i started to forget that it’s vanilla ice cream bc the fatty taste in your mouth start to mask the already faint vanilla flavor. there are so many other better vanilla ice cream places in the city, this is def not one of the best in my opinion.

This place looks like my childhood heaven. Loaded with TONS of little toys and figurines of classic American cartoon and Japanese animé icons, I would have gone bananas begging my mom to buy me DBZ and Sailor Moon toys, posters, and lunch boxes here! It tickles me silly whenever I walk in here to order something tasty.
Ice cream and shakes are yummay, but that’s a given being that it’s ICE CREAM or ice cream based. The fact that it’s Bud’s ice cream makes it a plus.
Anyway, this review is actually for the hard working individuals who work there and make GIGANTIC, quality sandwhiches. $ 6.25 for a 10-​inch sandwhich, loaded with fresh ingredients, and a soda. I posted a picture next to a tall can of Yerba Matte to show relative size. Seriously, check it out, the thing couldn’t even fit in the plastic container they put it in! AWESOME, mighty sand-​o, indeed.
It’s usually just one or two working there — patient elderly owners, I’m assuming. And, I gotta say, I almost feel guilty ordering a sandwhich from them. They prep NOTHING, so they patiently cut all the tomatoes, avocado, and any other ingredients I please on the spot, regardless of a line for folks probably just waiting for one scoop of ice cream. But, I don’t care, and JJ employees never break a stressed-​out sweat ever, and pacify those waiting. I LOVED that they opened a new package of Boar’s head roast beef and sliced it on a meat slicer on the spot. Quality products for such a small, random spot. Toasted on some dutch crunch, baby, and I had two meals for the day!
I go there to buy ice cream scoops when I randomly walk by just to support such a unique local spot with great, kind service.

$ 4.75 for a vanilla shake? Really?
I guess I wouldn’t have minded about the price had he not coughed several times without covering his mouth, only a few inches from the machine while it was mixing and churning.
It was gross.
I crossed my fingers that my child (for whom the shake was for) had sufficient immunity from all his germ-​y school friends that he wouldn’t get sick.
(he didn’t)
But still, it was nasty.
Pass.

«I give you JJ scoop» says the old asian man with a crooked smile.
I don’t know if his name is JJ but the old man that runs this place is super friendly. JJ Ice Cream is part candy store, part toy store, part ice cream parlor, part sandwich shop. On the corner of Funston and Irving, this hole in the wall is packed full of everything a child could dream of: gum balls, action figures, trinkets, toy cars and much more. I’d suggest leaving your kids outside if you want to walk out with a full wallet.
On a bright and sunny Saturday afternoon, I drove past JJ’s on the way to Mitchell’s to satisfy an ice cream hankering. Rather than driving another 15 – 20 minutes, I stopped at JJ’s for my malt.
They sell around half dozen choices of gelato and a good couple dozen choices of ice cream. I didn’t get to try the gelato although it looked good. The ice cream was spot on though. I got a chocolate chip cookie dough malt, and while it wasn’t as thick as I would’ve liked, the old man put extra chocolate chips in there :)
My girlfriend got a single scoop of cookies and cream. The single scoop looked more like a double which spurred my girlfriend to ask if this was in fact a single scoop. The old man replied with the above quote.
If Mr. Rodgers was born in China, he would be this old man. I wanted to take a picture of him to show you Unilocalers but it would’ve been awkward :(
Anyways, in terms of the ice cream its a 4 stars. It wasn’t wowzers but it was definitely better than the average. The super friendly old man definitely bumped my rating up a whole star. I think he makes JJ Ice Cream more than just an ice cream parlor and into a classic neighborhood joint.

JJ’s ice cream sells bud’s ice cream, classic gelato (9 flavors), sandwiches, bagged canides and gummis, various trinkets. star wars memorabilia, keychains, etc.
sampling: lychee gelato (1 scoop, 2.95)no tax
–not a lot of lychee flavoring, some vanila flavoring tasted.
cream drips
–small shop with a few tables in the corner
–older asian gent runs the place
–cash only?

[M]ona: 4 Stars
[W]ayne: 4 Stars
Average: 4 Stars
+ Accepts Credit Cards
+ Sweets Galore!
+ Inexpensive
[W] I really enjoyed the ice cream choice that I picked out here. It’s a really small ice cream parlor on the corner of 11^th or 12^th st and Irving. We ordered the double scoop on the cone. I had the espresso flavor and Mona ordered the Huckleberry Heaven
. The espresso had some chocolate chunks in there so it was pretty good. The espresso was good as well. The Huckleberry Heaven flavor was kind of an interesting flavor. I think I made it out to be tasting like cotton candy or something. But it was good so no knocking on it today.
The weird thing about the store was that it was like a half ice cream parlor and a half toy shop. It just had a lot of glass cabinets with toys to purchase oh well. Didn’t really bother me. What was funny though was that Mona asked the owner, «Do you have any stamp cards?» and he was like «Yeah.» Then he walked away so we’re like o… k…can we get one? lol. I told Mona to go ask him again because he seemed clueless. So she did and he though we asked «Do you guys accept credit cards» lol. I was like WTF lol. That did not even come ANYWHERE close to «Do you have stamp cards» haha. Anyways dyslexic brain fart I suppose. I still like this place though.