Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt

2 Reviews on “Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt”

• CallMeMochelle

  Located about half hour outside the Strip, in Summerlin is this mom-n-pop ice cream store. It is a great little place, but it’s not a place to hang out as there’s no inside seating or even a table. There’s a few benches and grassy area, but the storefront is located at the entrance of the strip mall.There’s 100’s of flavors to choose from, and they even have flavors of the month. You can ask for a sample, especially for those with vague descriptions like Graham Central Station. If you peer inside, you can see rows and rows of refrigerated ice cream, ready to be served. They offer cups and cones, and even dipped.Prices aren’t cheap, about $3.50 for a scoop. It was a nice scoop, and you can even say a generous scoop, but its still one scoop of ice cream. I chose the mint chocolate chip. Was it the best ice cream I’ve ever had? Hmm, not sure. It was good, and it hit the spot on a warm Memorial Day evening. callmemochelle.com

  September 3, 2016, 3:06 am

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• Michael U.

  An Ohio native of the Northwest who spent his formative years with Tofts, Friendlys, Breyers or Soft-Serve before developing a taste for the finer things at Jenis in Columbus, it really does not seem all that strange that it took 36 years to visit Youngstown-based Handels Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt but on Saturday the omission was finally righted, a trip to the Las Vegas Scoop Shop on the corner of Hualapai and Tropicana actually more impressive than one may of thought.Born in 1945, techniques changed but formulas still using an old-school base with all flavors churned on site, Handels Las Vegas occupies a somewhat out-of-the-way corner in the western Suburbs and with nothing but tableless benches offered as seating the layout is decidedly grab-and-go only, a few patrons wavering over nearly thirty options while others opted to do some tasting. Featuring four windows, though the midday only saw two open as a duo of young ladies provided smiles with the scoops, tastes of Butter Pecan and Salty Caramel Truffle reminded me of slow-spun flavors from my childhood, the Banana Cream Pie and Birthday cake trending a bit more over-sweet and artificial while a seasonal special titled Midnight Madness delivered all sorts of richness with Dark Chocolate Punched up by Oreos and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups.Affordable and sizably portioned compared to others, two scoops approximating a pint for just $4.25, it was on the cashiers advice that Graham Central Station was paired to Chocolate-Chip Cookie Dough with a mix-in from Nabisco, the former a lot like eating soggy Smores while the later was exactly as might be expected, the texture intriguing but overwhelming sweetness difficult to ignore.Always a sucker for a Sundae, not to mention housemade baked goods, part two of the tasting entailed a warm blondie at the base of a plastic clamshell and although whipped cream and caramel were both no better than store-bought the pairing of Peanut Butter Parfait and a treat from my Home State were as delicious as they were nostalgic, the blend reminding me a lot of Moose-Tracks a flavor so difficult to track down in my childhood that a three hour trip to Youngstown may not have been all that bad.THREE STARS: Noteworthy for its old school appeal, though nouveau Artisans have long left their flavors and smoothness far behind, Handels is well served in its suburban strip-mall location, no doubt a step-up from the Midwest to Sin City while still maintaining its nostalgia but by no means destination worthy stuff. endoedibles.com

  July 29, 2016, 8:49 pm

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