Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams — Restaurant in Raleigh

Jeni’s has long been one of my favorite spots for ice cream since I first stumbled upon a scoop shop about 9 years ago in Nashville. The ice cream is amazing, the flavors are unique and tasty and the waffle cones are made fresh in the shop and smell like heaven. Yes, the ice cream is expensive, but I’ve always thought it was worth the occasional indulgence when I was in a city with a scoop shop (since I didn’t live in a city that had a scoop shop of its own).

However, I am unfortunately very disappointed in the new Raleigh location:

The prices are consistent with other shops around the country, but the portions are about half the size. You can get more ice cream buying a pint for close to the same price.

There’s no place to sit! No place to enjoy the ice cream you just paid an arm and a leg to eat.

The last time I was there, the employees closed the shop 30-40 minutes early and I was turned away. Jeni’s either needs to ensure their hours on google are accurate or they need to hold their employees accountable to keeping the shop open during the designated hours.

I really do love the Jeni’s chain, but the Raleigh shop needs to step it up. I’ve had much better experiences at other locations in...

While we had the debacle in Chicago trying to check out Jeni's there, we had much better luck at our local Jeni's. At the behest of Jeni's, I decided to give them another try to see if this store had any gluten free vegan ice cream options available.

I called ahead of time to make sure and were told that they had one flavor available by the scoop and 3 more by the pint only. So we made the trip there and am so glad that we did, stove we didn't get to try them in Chicago.

Both of my kids were thrilled with the ice cream they had, and I absolutely loved the Banana Cream Pie pint ice cream (gluten free and vegan!). It was so delicious that I might have to make a special trip just to buy another pint.

So glad that we gave them a second shot. Now if only all of their locations would have at least a couple of flavors that are both gluten free and vegan on hand at all times, they'd be...

Amazing flavors of ice cream, and the fact that you can get three separate scoops with an order is awesome as well! We tried the Butter Cake, Brambleberry Pie, and some cosmic sherbert (can't remember the name) and there proprietary recipe soda tied it all together. The soda was far more tart than sweet so it definitely drew the flavor of the ice cream out. The only downside was that the girl working was clearly overwhelmed because an employee no showed. I felt bad for her as we came during a rush, but she was still doing great (give...