For the remainder of my “ice cream and desserts” themed experiences, I visited three additional places.
One of the place I visited was called Kilwins, which was a candy and homemade ice cream shop. My first impression of this shop was that it smelled amazing because of all of the homemade sweets and ice creams. The atmosphere was very sophisticated and playful at the same time, and all of the homemade treats were very visible when you first walk in the door. I decided to get the milk chocolate sea salt caramel, which was homemade and extremely good! Even though the sweets and creams are a bit expensive it was still a lot of fun just to experience the atmosphere and know that there is a close sweets shop thats about 20 minutes from campus. It reminded me a lot of my favorite candy shop from my hometown, which made it even better! I would definitely take my friends and family to this shop. Another place that I went to with some friends was Simply Rolled Ice Cream. This location actually recently opened and is right off of High Street near the Short North. There has been a recent trend in rolled ice cream and I never actually got to try, so I felt that this was the perfect time to try it! I went with a friend and decided to get the plain matcha green tea ice cream. I’ve never had matcha ice cream before and this was the perfect first experience. They have so many different combinations of ice cream, themes and toppings even though I went with something simple. It was definitely worth the amount of money I paid and I would definitely look forward to trying many more of the rolled ice cream combinations. The last place that I visited was Whit’s Frozen Custard off of North High Street. I though that there would be more flavors of the custard, but I kind of realized that the whole idea of the shop is to get a custard and then put toppings of your choosing on it, which makes more sense. They also had an option to create your own custard, which I think after trying the custard I would definitely come back and try. I sampled the flavor of the week and decided to go with plain vanilla custard. I think that it tastes good without the toppings, which says a lot about the custard! I overall enjoyed my experience and would definitely come back every one in a while for this treat!
My overall favorite experience would have to be split between Jenni’s Ice Cream and the vegan bakery. Jenni’s was very generous to let my friends and I sample so many of the flavors, which was definitely a plus! The other experience that I really enjoyed was trying the vegan baked goods. There are not many vegan bakeries in my hometown or within close distance to campus, so I really excited to try vegan treats at this shop. I have definitely learned a lot about Columbus from experiencing these places. I have never actually gotten a chance to explore Columbus, being from Akron, and I felt that this was the perfect opportunity to experience the city. I was not familiar with a lot of places in Columbus and now I have places that I can take my family and friends when they visit me! Some advice that I would give someone who chose this themed list would be to look at the menu and price lists of some of the places you plan to go to, so that you know it fits into your budget. Another reason why I would recommend doing this is to make sure you’ll actually enjoy the things that they have at the specific shop.
