M.T.A. Shaved Ice — Restaurant in Garland

I visited this place for the first time today, and it was refreshing that the place was open. A sweet, patient woman took my order and repeated it to me.

I ordered the limited time pumpkin cheesecake flower dessert and a medium street corn without hot sauce.

The pumpkin cheesecake dessert was delicious and a great size. Shaved ice and ice cream were in the treat, and I had a good impression of the shaved ice.

I liked the corn in a cup too. It was well blended and flavorful throughout. From my experience, different elote (corn) or raspa (shaved ice) joints use a variety of different ingredients in addition to corn, butter, and mayo. M.T.A. Shaved Ice uses parmesan cheese instead of cotija cheese or feta cheese. The taste is very different yet still good.

Also, I like the strong colorful spoons used here. My corn in the cup was served with a longer spoon through a closed lid. I appreciate that the street corn was lidded.

I plan to...

Always great shaved ice flavors. There are so many options. They also develop new ones. They have other food options as well, such as nachos, hot dogs, street corn, and ice cream. So good....

Update - May 2024 - they updated their flavor lists. They have some specialty flavors as well. Also, if you don't know, they have a stamp card program to earn free shaved ice.

Udapted - December 2024 - they updated the flavor board with new flavors. Also, they started doing funnel cakes on the weekends. December 15th is the last day for the year with winter coming. They are on Facebook to see when they plan to open up. Always friendly staff and great tastes. We buy the biggest cups (Texas Blizzards) to hold us over the winter break.

Update - June 2025 Still amazing place. The staff is great. J is so helpful. There are so many flavors. Make sure to get a stamp card to earn free shaved ice. They mixed a Cherry Dr. Pepper, that...

The ice itself is shaved very well BUT they do not put a lot of syrup on the snow cone. Me and my children took ours back to the window for more syrup since they don’t put enough, the snow cones almost looked like ice when she doesn’t gave them to us. Neither was there any juice in the cups. The lady tried explaining that there’s a ice cap or pocket or something of that sort which is why you don’t see the juice... (never heard of that ever) but once we got more juice and paid for it it was better. The syrup tasted watered down as well. With extra juice it really still didn’t have much flavor. I would go again but only when I don’t feel like driving to Plano it will be a last...