Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams — Restaurant in St. Louis

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams is one of the gems that you will find located in the Central West End. This bright, cheerful ice cream shop has about 20-30 flavors. You won't find your standard chocolate and vanilla here, rather you will find flavors ranging from lavender wildberry, to sweet potato with torched marshmallow, and many more.

On my first visit I got one of their most iconic flavors, brambleberry crisp. Now you might be asking yourself, what in the world is a brambleberry. Brambleberry is not actually a fruit, rather Jeni's makes a jam of blackberries and black currants which they call their brambleberry jam. This jam along with a toasted oat streusel is layered throughout creamy vanilla ice cream. The jam provides a perfect amount of tang from the blackberries, which compliment the sweet ice cream. The streusel give a an interesting cinnamon flavor that works really well with the rest of the ingredients. Now my second time at Jeni's I wasn't planning on ordering anything, but after my friend decided on the Riesling Poached Pear Sorbet, and I had a small taste of it, I changed my mind. Imagine all the things that are wrong with pear, sometimes they aren't ripe enough, the skin is sub-par, they can be messy to eat. Now get rid of all those things because the sorbet takes the everything that is right with a pear, the delicious flavor, and packs that into creamy sorbet. Also, the sweet notes that the Riesling provide to the ice cream are just an added bonus. This has to be one of the best ice cream flavors I have ever had, and something that makes me want to return to Jeni's soon.

If you are looking for an ice cream shop with some different flavors, and aren't worried about paying 5 dollars for two half scoops of ice cream, then Jeni's is as good as it gets. Make sure to taste the Riesling Poached Pear Sorbet and you won't be disappointed. Additionally, sample some other flavors and find the best...

I love Jenni’s ice cream but idk if I came in on a day when the employee wasn’t really feeling her job or she just like making ppl feel stupid. I ask the employee how many scoops goes into a standard, instead of telling me how many time she scoops out ice cream from the freaking container; she goes in and start preaching jargon to me about the sizes of the scoops like I work there! She was also being very condescending with it and I really didn’t appreciate it because I don’t treat people that way and I for certain don’t deserve it I kept my cool and just let her rant I was trying to see if it made sense to get two standard ice creams but I ended up getting just one because I didn’t understand anything she was saying! which I regretted because I really needed two one for me and my dog I felt embarrassed and I really try to avoid any confrontation because I don’t want to be a jerk because when I read some one to hell it can be ugly and I’m a women of class and she was like a baby so I didn’t stoop to her level I might have been intimidating to her because I also just came from church and people normally try me when I don’t look like others or my presence is very light! she was judging me from my cover and I think she thought I was dingy idk but I just know I didn’t like it and I won’t be going on...

I heard Jeni being interviewed on a major foodie podcast a couple years ago and absolutely loved the way she articulated her desire for off-the-wall flavors. She wasn't afraid to try new things. Her creativity, profound scientific approach to flavor components, and endless obsession with creating better flavor combinations all come together in pure harmony when you try her ice creams. She is very meticulous about her ingredients which is why she uses grass fed cream, and doesn't saturate the ice cream with tons of sugar. I was ecstatic when I found out she had a shop here in STL! Jeni's is among the best grown up ice cream I've ever had (second best would be Ice Cream Factory sold in ice cream parlors, not grocery stores. ICF is what I call the "kid version" because every bite is studded with massive amounts of cookie pieces, candy bits, etc., while Jeni's is more for a refined foodie palette: like their Goat Cheese with Red Cherries, Brown Butter Almond Brittle, Brandied Banana Brûlée, Sweet Cream Biscuits and Peach Jam, etc., etc., etc.) The ambience is also super cute, but usually packed on the weekends with very limited parking, but...