Del’s Lemonade

I am a huge fan of Del’s and most of the time the lines are outrageous but at this one it always moves so quickly! Down side cash only. Upside grapefruit ! So because of the flavor and they’ve never run out of the flavors when I’m there five stars!

It’s that time of year again, the sign is lit up and you know that spring is here and you start seeing the trucks all over the state. I always love coming here and especially when it’s hot and having lemon Dels and the lil one has blueberry. The cowesett location is always busy it has a pizza shop on the other side of the building it was once called Vasilis pizza before they sold to another and a couple years the family bought it back. The owner of Dels at this location I believe is his wife and usually here in the beginning. If your a local you need to get your dels. If your new to the area try it out you won’t be disappointed

This is a classic Del’s Lemonade. I’m talking old school, pre-​internet, 1980s Del’s Lemonade. The high school girls slopping it even had big hair and bangs.
They don’t take cash, so don’t bother. They have flavors besides lemon, but you’re a communist or some sort of outastatah if you try one. Your best bet is to get a quart and get some little cups.
For those who don’t know, Del’s is an Italian-​Rhode Islander invention composed of ice slush, sugar, and chunks of real lemon. Oh my God, it’s so good during the summertime. It’s perfect to have at a county fair, at a sports event, outside at a park, or toward the end of the day.
This location is in a classic Rhode Island neighborhood, Cowesett, just up the street from the Station Nightclub Fire Memorial. It perfectly shares a home with one of the awesome and ubiquitous neighborhood pizza places that I found out were quite rare outside the northeast.
You haven’t had Rhode Island if you haven’t had Del’s. Stop at the sign of the lemon, or GFY!

The four stars are a combination of a flawless, five-​star Rhode Island staple, and a three-​star service experience at this particular Del’s.
Del’s lemonade is a perfect marriage of consistency (wet soft slush bits) and flavor (bright sweet real lemon rind chunks), but this location isn’t the very best. I had to initiate ten separate phone calls tonight before the counter worker would tell me the answer to a simple question: what are your hours today? I don’t see the point of hanging up the phone nine times before even hearing the sound of my voice, but maybe that’s just her version of letting the telephone ring.
Cash only, and no straws (spoons only).

How can anyone give Del’s Frozen Lemonade any LESS than FIVE STARS???
Del’s is a RI icon, like pasta sauce (red sauce), coffee syrup, clam cakes, hot wieners — and yeah — you get it — we RI-​ers love our Del’s.
There is NOTHING like a Del’s at the beach. If you are not getting it here on Cowesett Rd., the best place to have it is at the beach. The sun is hot, the sand is hotter, and you need to put on shoes to walk up to the snack counter and order yourself a large Del’s. I do love the lemon flavored Del’s but once I tried the watermelon flavor, I was hooked. Especially when I am at the beach. You do need to get a large one, otherwise, you will have finished it before you go back to your beach chair and might need to trudge up that hot sand for another. Nothing cools me off like a watermelon Del’s at the beach.
As an aside, when I was a little girl, I used to ride sometimes on my father’s bus (he was a RI UTC bus driver) and I will NEVER forget the hot summer day he stopped the bus on the street and NOT at a bus stop — and he ran out and bought me a Del’s Lemonade. And then got back on the bus and continued to drive his route. Everyone on the bus laughed or smiled at me. I was quite embarrassed, being the very shy child that I once was. But I will never, ever forget that he did that and that might be why I love Del’s Frozen Lemonade so much.
Even without that sweet memory, though, I would still be crazy for Del’s!

This is a cute little green and yellow building that serves some delicious frozen lemonades with different flavors. They have other snacks as well. You can even make one at home when you buy their product Del’s at home. All you need is ice and a blender. Makes 1 gallon of frozen lemonade.

Still the one and only. A true, RI classic. None of the imitators even come close. Only down side is the brain freeze; but you learn to just drive through the pain.
Lemon is still my vavorite but the wife and daughter have got hooked on the watermellon.