Best Ice Cream in Los Angeles (Parents Share the Scoop)

If you’ve never feasted your eyes on a tower of ice cream sandwiches filled with unique flavors, you get the chance to do just that at The Coolhaus Shop, a cool, pun intended, parlor where everything tastes just as good as it looks! Ice cream lovers bored of the same run-of-the-mill flavors love the fried chicken and waffles and beer and pretzel ice cream flavors.

Afters Ice Cream is the first ice cream shop known for making ice cream and doughnut combinations popular, and it is home of "The Milky Bun," a sweet glazed bun stuffed with a unique ice cream flavor of choice. If you love big heaping scoops of ice cream, all the toppings you can imagine from cookie crisp cereal, fruity pebbles, chunks of Oreo cookies, drizzles on drizzles of caramel and more, then Afters Ice Cream delivers.

At Hans' Homemade Ice Cream, the motto is "there's no such thing as too many scoops," and with a variety of delicious flavors to choose from it's easy to see why. Ice cream lovers appreciate that Hans' ice cream is always dense, creamy, and fresh. They offer classics like banana nut and chocolate chop ice cream, but it's their signature creations of Nutella Krunch, Orange Mocha Chip, and Peppermint Oreo that keep ice cream lovers coming back to Hans'.

Ice cream lovers can satisfy their ice cream tooth with iconic creations, at Scoops N Scoops, where they can indulge in flavors like Mucho Mango, Ice Cream Nachos, or enjoy a new take on old classics like Banana Split and Mint Chocolate Chip n Brownie. The real treat for families is that Scoop N Scoops serves custom, liquid nitrogen ice cream made to order with all the add-ons and mix-ins one can imagine.

Paradis offers over twenty flavors of ice cream made from scratch; it's known for its strawberry buttermilk, almond nocciella, and bacio flavors. In addition to delicious gelato, vegan ice cream aficionados have options to choose from, too.

Kansha Creamery is a quaint ice cream shop that offers a growing variety of organic, handmade ice cream that is freshly churned five days a week. It has a growing menu of unique flavors, and the shop carries small batches of five delicious flavors to choose from a day. Their signature flavors, like matcha ice cream and Mr. Universal sell out often. The real sweet scoop is that the brother and sister duo that run Kansha donate 75 cents of every item purchased to a charity that supports Korean orphans.

If you love ice cream but always have a hard time choosing a flavor, that's no problem at Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams where they encourage ice cream lovers to sample as many flavors as their hearts desire. With so many interesting flavor combinations to choose from, you'll be tempted to ask for seconds or thirds.

What makes Tifa Chocolate & Gelato really special is that its gelato is made fresh every morning at their Agoura location; this is where families get the inside scoop by seeing how fresh gelato comes to life as they watch the magic unfold through Tifa's giant viewing windows. Tifa's gelato is smooth, full of flavor and many of the combinations of flavors, such as their strawberry balsamic, lemon mint sorbetto, and blueberry honey sage sell out often. Each helping of gelato, whether in a cup or cone, comes with a light and crispy wafer.

Ginger's Divine Ice Creams offers a variety of ice cream scoop and bar selections to choose from and their scoops of ice cream are large, dense, and satisfying. For those who prefer their ice cream without dairy, there are six selection of vegan flavors such as cookies & cream and Turkish coffee chocolate chip. Families and kiddos love that they can sample as many ice cream flavors as they want at Ginger's.

If you love classic organic ice cream, vegan ice cream, or ice cream that's sugar free, then Malibu's Le Cafe De La Plage ice cream shop is just the place for you. With careful attention to making ice cream that is powder and industrial product free, the owners at Le Cafe De La Plage really commit to providing ice cream enthusiasts flavors like pineapple basil and black vanilla that are of the highest quality.

The Little Calf Creamery & Cafe serves up delicious scoops of ice cream in mason jars topped with the option to sample any flavor before making a selection. With signature year-round flavors like lavender blueberry and vanilla berry crisp, and featured flavors like strawberry cheesecake and maple walnut, there's something for everyone including a few tasty non-dairy options. Little Calf Creamery also serves up more than ice cream, and families love that they have cups filled with "this or that" questions to ask and answer together as they wait for their orders.