Coney Waffle Ice Cream and Sweet Shop — Restaurant in Asbury Park

If I miraculously have any room left over after gorging myself at a nearby Asbury restaurant, this is always a stop. The ice cream is delicious, the flavors offered are varied/unique, and the additional products are excellent too. I'm very much a cup person when it comes to ice cream (I don't like the experience being marred by constant vigilance/paranoia over whether the ice cream is about to melt from the cone to my paw), but this is the one place I'm willing to go with the cone, both for superficial optics and because they're genuinely tasty. I had a Hawaiian Punch-flavored cone a few years ago I still think about from time to time.

I stopped by this past Saturday afternoon with the Millennial Chum, on a toasty summer day that was absolutely teeming with people all over the beach and boardwalk. If you'd asked me to guess beforehand, I would have estimated this place would have a line out the door, but we got lucky - I'd say there were maybe three or four people in front of us, and (this part isn't luck) the line moved very quickly and efficiently. While we waited the two minutes or so to order, I gave the merch section to the side a hard look - there are some VERY legit-looking hoodies for sale that are only about $30 or $35 and would easily retail for twice that at a different establishment. I might come back for one.

On this particular day, I went with a small cup (two scoops) of the birthday cake ice cream, and I THINK something Oreo/cookie related, which unfortunately I can't definitively confirm because it's conveniently hidden on top of the birthday cake in the accompanying picture. Both were excellent. I've mentioned this many times in prior ice cream reviews, but as long as it's a decent flavor and it's not freezer burned, it's hard for me to give anything other than a full-throated endorsement of it. The servings are huge too - the small is not particularly small, and the much better-behaved Millennial Chum actually went with a kiddie cup in the end.

Definitely worth a stop if you have the time...

“Java trunk and coconut, please”, I said, as I have said at least 100 times since they replaced Days ice cream. Except this time, the perfect-looking girl behind the counter was mad. I know she was made because she made sure I know I have offended her.

Not until after handed me my bowl with the wrong ice cream in it, did she inform me how benevolent and forgiving she was because I handed her the waffle bowl instead of telling her that I wanted the waffle bowl.

Well I didn’t mean to make her mad but I have been doing this all summer long, ordering exactly the same thing all summer long and nobody else ever told me I was endangering their lives or breaking any unwritten rules.

Except now, I know that I didn’t order ice cream the right right and how dare I show myself in her presence ever again.

I’m glad that she overlooked the limits of her logic by grabbing my money from me thirty seconds later. I’m forever grateful that she allowed me to tip her and even gave me something to eat. It would have been wrong for me to want the ice cream I ordered or expect an ounce of...

Apparently they're semi-famous for these mega milkshake creations, but I just wanted a good ice cream cone and found it here. I had their birthday cake ("Happy Birthday To Me") ice cream and thought it was one of the better birthday cakes I've tried. Lots of pretty big cake chunks and the cake seemed like it actually would have been good cake on its own. The “small” is two scoops and they’re pretty generous! The waffle cone was a little hard, but I'd still get it again over a cake cone or bowl. They also have other fun stuff, like fudge, cookies, and ice cream waffle boats (which my dad got and enjoyed). They have a pretty large selection of flavours, but I found it hard to get a good look at everything while I was waiting in line with people standing in front of the freezer, and they wanted us to order as soon as we reached the counter, before we got a chance to see all the flavours up close, which was kind of stressful since I barely knew what all the options were when they were asking me (not very patiently)...