Eddie's Sweet Shop — Restaurant in New York

Beautiful old-school decor (but the ambience sucks!) that looks like you've stepped out of a time machine. Gorgeous counter top that your grandma would've felt at home on (if you're in your 40's), stunning old-school stools that hearken back to when human booties weren't the size of a horse butt (seriously -- if you've got a post 90's butt, forget the counter... grab a table!).

Sadly, the beautiful retro look is all that Eddie's has going for it. The bad news is that the desserts are very low quality and the service is horrid. The good news is that there's a high probability that you'll enjoy Eddie's; unless your parents / grandparents grew up in the golden years of NYC, this place will seem authentic to you, and authentic means delicious, right? Wrong!

What's wrong with this place? I'm glad you asked.

The ice cream is flavorless.

I see a review that says the ice cream is homemade. I seriously doubt it. But even if it is (which it isn't) it doesn't matter because the ice cream is flavorless. The vanilla ice cream barely tastes of vanilla, and there's no vanilla bean specks that you see in homemade / high quality vanilla ice cream. The chocolate ice cream barely tastes of chocolate. One of the weakest chocolate ice creams I've ever tasted.

The whipped cream? True, it doesn't taste of nitrous oxide, so it doesn't come from a can, but I find it bland. I seriously doubt it's homemade (if it is, Eddie is the culinary equivalent of the "Bad News Bears")

2, The egg cream is a glass of milk.

Utterly flat. Either they used flat seltzer, of they start with seltzer, add chocolate, and stir, because there was no carbonation whatsoever in my egg cream. I've had better egg creams at Greek diners (I've read other reviews by knowledgeable people who confirmed their egg creams were flat too.

They use low-quality chocolate syrup. I could barely taste any chocolate at all. Anyone with Brooklyn smarts knows you're supposed to use Fox U-bet chocolate syrup. This was flavorless.

What do you call an egg cream with hardly any carbonation and hardly any chocolate syrup? You call it milk. A freaking glass of milk.

The milk shakes are weak and flavorless.

Nearly flavorless ice cream makes for a nearly flavorless milkshake. It didn't taste like a milkshake. It tasted like a damned cup of milk. I wanted to dump the milkshake in the yard.

Read my lips: The milk shakes at McDonald's are better. Oh, yes, girlfriend. I went there! Tastier, sweeter, more of a milkshake consistency. McDonald's milkshakes taste like a milkshake. This tastes like milk.

The malted milk ... isn't!

The great sphinx of Alexandria famously asked Oedipus: "What do you have when you can't taste malt in your malted milk?" As the story goes, Oedipus correctly answered "A glass of milk!" and the sphinx was so enraged that it devoured itself.

I'm not joking. I had to close my eyes and smack my lips to get the faintest whiff of malt in my upper olfactory system. It was more of an aroma than a flavor. I could not taste malt.

My wife told me there was a sign that said extra malt costs extra, and then it all made sense. The malted milk could've easily have tripled the malt, and it still wouldn't have tasted like a malted milk. Shame on you, Eddie's. You are a stain on the memory of old-school NY. You are a cultural appropriator.

The service is awful.

The service is very typical teen-aged "I don't care". The kind of people that make you think "If I owned a business, I would NEVER hire someone like that". There MUST be people out there looking for a job who would do a better job than these clowns.

But you see, the service makes sense. It all makes sense. If Eddie's was truly a NYC sensation, worthy of being savored and admired, the owners would need to care about the food, and it's clear they don't. They put the same lack of caring into hiring a bunch of lazy, apathetic teenagers who don't take pride in either their job or where they work. And it shows. The workers don't care, the...

I am so incredibly sad & heartbroken to have to write this review. I grew up in Forest Hills and lived there for 28 years, Eddie's was part of my childhood & life. My dad also grew up in FH, he was going to Eddie's since the 1950's! Last night will probably be my last visit ever. I was a huge fan. I brought all my friends here from out of town, raved about them, own one of their tshirts, and come back as often as I can. I was in the neighborhood last night & begged my mom to bring me here. We came with a friend & shared a banana split. We ordered a few toppings - marshmallow, hot fudge, wet nuts, $1 each, no problem. The sundae must have been left on the counter for a while because it came half melted, but we didn't say anything. The kid who brought it over nearly dumped it on us. The sundaes are usually overflowing with toppings - the main reason to come here! Ours was lacking hot fudge - they maybe added 1 pump. Our waitress never came back, but we finally flagged her down to ask for a little more hot fudge when she served another table nearby. She says ok & disappears. After some time another teenage kid comes over to not only tell me I'm wrong & that hot fudge was on the sundae, but that she watched the owner put it on & that we ate it already. All we did was ask for a little more. There was no offer to give us more for another $1. Instead this bratty teen acted hostile, argued, literally clapped at me & brought the owner's son over. In the most rude, disgusting, condescending tone he also dismissed me, talked down to me with an attitude & told me if I ever had more fudge than was on my sundae tonight it was a mistake. Really? A mistake for 50+ years? Hahaha. They actually have photos of the sundaes I've photographed on their Instagram page because it looks so good! This nepo baby then proceeded to bring his father over, the owner, who also had zero solution & defended his rude son & rude staff. I am so sick to my stomach & quite honestly appalled they talked to a customer this way, after explaining my loyalty & the very minor ask of some extra hot fudge. How ridiculous is that? They are ruining a legacy with their attitudes & poor service. The teenagers that work there are new every time I go because they must have PTSD from working in such a toxic place with cheap, aggressive, berating owners. I can't believe one of my favorite places on this planet has gone so far down hill it's unredeemable. So sad for the neighborhood. My father is rolling in his grave at this treatment. They should sell the place to people with hospitality backgrounds & manners. Save your money & go to Serendipity, Brooklyn Farmacy, Caffe Panna, or any other ice cream spot with high quality product & high quality people....

Unfortunately as my first time sitting in this shop to get icecream for my little girl with a friend and her daughter, we ordered two- two scoop ice creams to share with our daughters, prior to ordering I asked if I could get mine in a glass cup so that the icecream wouldnt melt or spill over & I was told “sure no problem”. When the two ice creams arrived mine was in the glass cup and my friends was in the small metal cup. She then asked another waitress if we could get a glass cup to put hers in and the waitress said no we cant do that, so we explained that we were told we could since we had asked the lady who took our order, this waitress then says with an attitude “she wouldnt say that” And walked away. I then turn around and ask nicely to a gentleman working behind the counter “could you give me a glass cup to split the ice cream so it doesnt split” and he responds baffled “a glass cup? To put your icecream in? As if I had just asked for all the money in the register. Right away another male employee walks behind him with a rude face & places another small metal cup and says” we dont normally do this but we will this time. At this point we are confused because no one is explaining anything to us. So the lady whom took our order comes to us and now we are extremely upset and as were explaining this to her the 2nd waitress says “I did not have an attitude” so we explain to the first lady what is the big issue with getting a glass cup and so she explains when you get a sundae you get a glass cup so at this point were like ok well what exactly is a sundae, she says an icecream with a topping which mine had but not my friends and I said so for a simple cup we have to get all this attitude and especially infront of two little girls whom we brought here for the first time. If this was explained to us from the beginning then we get it but there was no need to get an attitude from not only one but 3 employees as if we asked for free icecream or something else. And seriously for a glass cup. With that said we come from a large community in middle village of many kids and thankfully none of us will continue to support them for this kind of treatment. The worst experience ever.Well...