Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt

I’d like a Peanut Cluster Parfait with Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cake Batter.
You can only get one kind of ice cream.
Ok, I’ll have the Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter.
Here’s your order, we can only make it with vanilla. So I added a few globs of peanut butter for you.
Ok, but this is not what I ordered and I always get a type of Chocolate ice cream.
Sorry, that is what I was told. (WTF…THEN WHY DID YOU MAKE IT IF I DID NOT ORDER IT THAT WAY… I COULD HAVE GOT A PINT OF THE FLAVOR I WANTED!)
Ok, then can I at least have the chocolate syrup and peanuts shown in the photo on your window?
OH, sure. Here you go. That will be $ 8.65. (I had another item, they got correct)
Here is a $ 10.
$ 0.35 is your change.
KEEP THE $ 1.
HUH?
SIGH, pecans instead of peanuts, Vanilla with globs of peanut butter, little chocolate… I added milk at home and made it a milkshake. Won’t drive 5 miles to go to Handels again!

Sadly I have to report… this is the best ice cream ever! I was skeptical after many north east Ohioans kept insisting it was «the best», but I have to say it lived up to the hype!
There were a ton and tons of flavors and variety of items. Everything was extremely reasonable in price. Ice cream tasted so fresh. The malt I got (chocolate malt flavor with caramel sauce mixed in) was huge (only one size).
I found the service to be friendly and efficient. Can’t wait to come back and try more flavors!

Handel’s is one of those places that make you reluctant to move away. IS there Ice Cream the BEST in the state of Ohio? Yes. The World? Strong ‘maybe’.
The Chocolate Pecan is a signature flavor. The Banana Split is the best value hand’s down. Note: always order with NO LID so the help can pile it on! THere Coffee ice cream is a personal fave. The ice cream s made daily; the flavor selections are abundant, and the butter fat content is high, as any great ice cream has to be.
I am gushing, but it’s fun to gush when you get the chance! If you think Breyers is great ice cream… get ready to re-​think your ice cream prorities.

I absolutely love handels in general. I now live in the west coast and crave handels very often. I was excited to go here soon after I touched down in Ohio a couple days ago. Young boys loitering outside at the counter apparently waiting to chat up girlfriend that’s working was kinda a turnoff. My favorite chocolate pecan was totally lacking an abundance of pecans as well as being super soft that it was falling off the cone and the girl working suggested I take a cup. It just didn’t hit the spot for me and made me disappointed. That may have been a bad batch but I’m now not so excited about handels anymore during this trip to Ohio.

Best Ice Cream in the country?
Believe it or not, Handel’s, of Youngstown, Ohio, is routinely voted as such. Personally, I go between Handel’s, Katie’s, and Webb’s as all being the best homemade ice cream that I have come across in my life.
Currently living in Cincinnati, I must say that any of the three completely blows Graeter’s out of the water and it’s not even close.
I cannot tell you how excited I was to see one of these spring up in Indianapolis a handful of years ago.
As of late I have been on a quest to find Handel’s best flavor. I have always been a big fan of any within the Chocolate tree, with a particular hankering for Chocolate Marshmallow. Today I tried Chocolate Almond. I’ve never been a huge fan of nuts in ice cream, but Handel’s Chocolate is unmatched.

The absolute best ice cream, ever! You must try it if you’re ever in the Youngstown area. They have many different flavors. All homemade.
Graham central station is da bomb!