Ocean Bay Creamery — Restaurant in South Carolina

Just visited on labor day 2019. My fiancé and I both got double scoops. The staff was very welcoming and helpful. The ice cream, on the other hand, was just eh. At $5 for a double scoop there are several ice creams i would rather buy by the pint from the grocery. Most flavors were just a normal vanilla or chocolate ice cream with something added to it like peanut butter cups. I am a peanut butter ice cream fanatic and found their version to be lacking enough that I didn’t get it. I thought it safer to go with an old southern specialty. I got a scoop of the butter pecan and a scoop of the Cookie Monster. The butter pecan had something wrong, it tasted fruity as if something had either spoiled or maybe a fruit ice cream was done in the same machine and it wasn’t cleaned thoroughly. The cookie monster was better but still not that to die for homemade creamery flavor you would expect to crave. The fiancé had dairy free black raspberry and cookie monster. She was not impressed though did like that they at least had 2 dairy free options(black raspberry and oreo). They were made with a coconut base which excited us because we have loved many ice creams with that base. Neither of them were very tasty.

Like i said it just wasn’t a place we would be sitting around and crave a visit back to. I have been to many creameries that i craved for on weekends after dinner. With many ice cream shops around that stock commercial ice creams that are also just okay we were excited to get a homemade creamery so near our home. It was over all a let down. First impressions are everything. We...

We’ve always enjoyed coming here. The ice cream is great, and the service has consistently been friendly and welcoming. It’s close by, which has made it a convenient go-to spot. While we’ve wished for a larger variety of flavors, the real reason we kept coming back was for the chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches made with their homemade vanilla ice cream.

Unfortunately, they’ve recently switched to using soft serve instead of scooped ice cream for the sandwiches, and it just doesn’t compare. That was the one thing that really set this place apart for us. With that change, we don’t see much reason to come back unless we’re pressed for time.

Nothing has ever been bad here, but the ice cream sandwich was what kept us loyal, and without it, we’ll likely go to other places that offer...

I rate this 1 star. The ice cream is great but the owner is rude. I have been twice now and had ordered a vanilla soft serve kiddie cup with oreos but received a small cup of vanilla soft serve with a little sprinkle of oreos and it was almost $5.00. I asked him why a small when I asked for a kiddie cup and he said no kiddie cup for soft serve.. so why not tell me that first when I ordered ?? Plus almost $5.00. I felt the owner was very short and rude so I will not go back or recommend this place to anyone. . I live minutes away but will drive over to Carolina Forest or go elsewhere.. And why can’t you do a kiddie cup of soft serve when other places can?? I order...