Pick of the Week: Ice SSSScreamin’

If youโ€™re looking for truly delicious, gourmet ice cream and treats, you have to check out the new Ice SSSScreaminโ€™ shop, located at 14933 Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd., next to Mr. Dunderbakโ€™s in the Oak Ramble Plaza, just south of Tampa Palms.

My new friend Zee says this is his second store with the many โ€œSโ€ name, with the other having been located in Cape Coral for 15 years. Both stores serve decadently creamy Yoderโ€™s Southern Creamery ice cream (based in Sarasota) in an amazing array of flavors, several of which I got to sample on my first visit, including brownie caramel, chocolate peanut butter and triple peanut butter and all are absolutely unforgettable!

Zee says, โ€œPeople love us for our monthly specials,โ€ plus croissant sundaes, pancake, waffle and even donut ice cream sandwiches, hand-spun milk shakes (โ€œWe can make them with any of our flavorsโ€) and more!

Thereโ€™s even no sugar added and vegan flavors available. For more information or to place an order, call (813) 605-5040 or visit icesssscreamin.com and please tell Zee I sent you! โ€” GN ย  ย 

Cold Stone Creamery โ€” Celebrating 10 Years Of 10-Minute Vacations!

*IMG_4996By Gary Nager

As a certified (certifiable?) chocoholic and dessert lover who is trying to stay below 500 pounds, I donโ€™t eat ice cream as much as I once did, but I still love a dish or a cone of super-premium ice cream every now and then, so Iโ€™ve been an ongoing, occasional customer of the Cold Stone Creamery located in the Highwoods Preserve section of New Tampa (just off Bruce B. Downs {BBD} Blvd.) since it opened nearly a decade ago.Continue reading