Izzy's Ice Cream Cafe - St. Paul
Coffee/Tea/Juice
American
Locally made ice-cream, with some vegan-friendly flavors.
This 16-seat eatery has sparse, clean environs, outdoor seating and tables for kids. One important note: Izzy's is closed from Thanksgiving to March 1.
Added by Sharyn Morrow on Mar 11 03 (updated Apr 24 05)
Reviews
Soy triple berry, chocolate, and chocolate banana are DELICIOUS! Passion fruit sorbet is also really good.
It's a great hangout, and when I was in there last there were a total of five different soy ice creams or sorbet. I hadn't been there in a few years, and they used to not carry as many soy options.
Great homemade soy ice cream! They usually offer between 2-3 flavors of soy now each day, with varieties that change. I've had the chocolate, chocolate almond, strawberry, and blueberry and they're all good.
MMMM - vegan blueberry ice cream! TO DIE FOR!
I'm all about any place that makes their own vegan ice cream. The chocolate was great, and a lot of it even melted in the car on the way home, but I loved it anyway, good fresh, melted, and re-frozen! I was not impressed with the raspberry, though.
They only had soy peanut butter ice cream when I went but it was pretty good. No one knew what I was taking about when I asked about vegan ice cream. They only knew that the soy kind was dairy free.
Izzy's makes some good vegan ice cream. Selection is a bit limited, but who can beat a serving of fresh home-made vegan ice cream on a hot summer day?
While Izzy's does have nondairy icecream, the selection of such that is available on any particular day is quite sparse. What they do have generally has a good texture and flavor. Unfortunately their waffle cones are not vegan, so a vegan is restricted to having the ice cream in a dish or a sugar cone.
An ice cream shop that actually makes their own non-dairy ice cream is a cool thing. The flavors I've tried always have a great texture and richness, though sometimes the flavor itself could be a bit stronger. The blueberry and spiced apple were both really good though.
These guys have awesome soy ice cream (they had blueberry and raspberry when I went), and excellent mango sorbet. The sorbets are incredibly smooth and have a very nice creamy mouth feel.