Mitchell’s Candies & Ice Cream

Our family used to go there when it was on 71^st St in South Shore. Great ice cream, candy. Get the Chocolate chip ice cream, still the best!

Very disappointed in Mitchell’s.
On Friday ⁹⁄₁₁ at 9:30pm I arrived at Mitchell’s, ready to treat myself and my aunt to ice cream. We found the lights on, door locked, and two men inside. One was behind the counter, the other putting chairs on the tables. I knocked on the door. Both men looked up then kept working. I rang the doorbell. The chair guy ignored the doorbell, but the young man behind the counter looked at the chair man, then pointed to us. The chair man place three more chairs on a table then stopped and walked over. He peered his head out of the door and said, «We’re closed.»
I responded, «It’s 9:30pm, you close at 10pm». Then I pointed to the sign on the door that posted the hours in accordance to what I said. Chair man said, «Yeah we’re closed now. Corporate told us to close.» Then he closed the door quickly and locked it.
RUDE! I was pissed. That is far from the experience that I wanted that evening at Mitchell’s. If you close early, then at least tell customers – apologetically – don’t ignore us after multiple attempts to get in when not only your door, your Unilocal page, AND Google state that you’re open for another half hour.
We wasted our time researching whether you’re open «late» and driving over there, only to be turned away by rude employees.
Why support a mom & pop shop (that’s apparently corporately owned now??) if you can get a smile and tasty treats at any of the several Baskin Robbins in the Homewood Flossmoor area?
We spent our money that evening at Baskin Robbins down the street. Next time, we’ll go to Flossmoor Station Caboose instead of Mitchell’s.
I’ll be contacting the owner about my experience.

The service was absolutely HORRIBLE! The woman behind the counter yelled twice while my family was there celebrating my brother’s birthday. The first time she yelled at me about the type of cone my son wanted and the second time was to get the attention of a co worker. They supposedly ran out of whipped cream which I understand they make themselves, but when our hot fudge sundaes came out one had whipped cream and one didn’t. When we informed the staff that both were suppose to have whipped cream, but we were told there was no more. They rudely said they had made more. The guy working the register told my father he had hoped a big group standing outside wouldn’t come into the store when he went to pay for our ice cream treats. Then as we had just barely started eating out ice cream, the same person running the register came over and pretty much wanted to clean up our table right away. Needless to say I know my husband, son, and myself will not be back. The ice cream is ok, but the service is so horrible it ruins the experience. They need to fix the problem with their staff ASAP. VERY RUDE!

Was super disappointed the door was locked as I was walking up. It was 8:53. Sign on door said 9pm closing. I looked on Unilocal it said closing in 6 min. I really wanted a good ice cream. :-(

Great service, great ice cream. My wife & I went with their famous hot fudge sundae — good stuff. They had a small area for children, (we walked in with 5 kids), and the kids loved it.

This place is awesome! Old fashioned ice cream places have a special place in my heart. I came to this place recently while waiting for a wedding reception to start. I ended up with a scoop of the mint chocolate chip with whipped cream. One of the people in my group had a milkshake, and that looked really good. They have a bunch of seasonal flavors I wanna go back and try sometime. The staff was really nice and fast with preparing our orders. Great experience at Mitchell’s !

I grew up in in south suburbs and have been trying really hard not to write this review. I’ve been to Mitchells 4 times since they reopened from the winter. the winter closure was the decision of the new corporate owners. the ice cream is competent the service is chaotic. this is mostly caused by the poor layout of the shop and the lack of training for the new staff. I’ve been in there with 3 people and had to wait 10 minutes for my order to be taken. My experience of the owners other restaurants is that the food is always good and never great. it would seem their stewardship of Mitchell’s is following that pattern and that wholesale distribution has become the major focus of the business leaving the shop far from the quality it had as a family owned store.

Old fashioned ice cream and sweets parlor in the quiet downtown area of Homewood. Had a fabulous hot fudge sundae complete with nuts, whipped cream and a cherry. The homemade scoops of vanilla and pistachio ice cream were rich and creamy. Hubby’s chocolate phosphate float hit the spot too. The candies were tempting…

There were two of us today — we had just stuffed ourselves at Mama and Me pizza and decided to go up the street for a scoop of ice cream. OMG — remember when Cock Robin used to have square green pistachio ice cream (never could find any nuts but. .. it was the thought that counted) — well I found where the original idea came from — without the square! This was green with taste, This was pistachio with nuts. This was the hugest one scoop I have evern devoured. My bff had cofee chocolate chip taht was actually coffee flavored — with teeny tiny shreds (?) of chocolate threaded thru out the creamy coffee smoth icy goodness. If I explode because of all the food that I have ingested this afternoon, I will have at least explodeed with happy taste buds. This place also has candy — as if there wasn’t enough goodness in the Ice Cream alone? I can say that the English Toffee is incredible. Oh my, just plain wonderful.

After reading the reviews here, I was worried that this place wouldn’t stand up to their old school reputation of it being awesome. However, my worries proved me wrong. This place is still just as I remembered it… just more pink! The ice cream is still great. I treated my little sister here for some ice cream. I ordered a kiddie cone of strawberry and she ordered the regular cone of chocolate. It came out to only $ 4.00 and her cone was HUGE. She couldn’t even finish it. Not to mention that our ice creams were delicious.
I will definitely be back for some homemade chocolates and ice cream!

I grew up going here, both my sisters worked here. Everything is fresh and great. So much better than any kind of ice cream you’ll find in a grocery store. They have all kinds of topping options and flavor choices. Great place to make a quick stop to satisfy your sweet tooth.

I’m sad to say that Mitchell’s has gone downhill since the new ownership purchased it. I have to disagree that this plase hasn’t changed — it HAS changed, and not for the better. This is coming from a guy who worked here for the old owners (whom I did not like, by the by…) and who would like to open his own shop on day.
– The soda water is incredibly flat. Watch your waitress leave the pull valve open and run the water, just hoping some fizz will build.
– Chips in the chocolate chip ice cream are larger than years before; in addition, the base tastes somehow different. Chocolate chip ice cream is my favorite, and Mitchell’s was known for chips so fine the wouldn’t clog your straw in a chocolate chip milkshake — a specialty they hung their hat on, like double peach sundaes. Theirs was the chocolate chip I measured all other chocolate chip against, and now… it’s gone. So sad.
– The ice cream isn’t nearly as hard as it used to be; they must be keeping the thermostats higher to eek out more margin. Soft ice cream is for dairy queen, not here.
– The greatest sin of all: the whipped cream is 100% fake. It used to be primo. We made it with cream, powdered sugar, and a healthy shot of real vanilla extract in the tank before sealing the tank, shaking it, and charging it with nitrous oxide. Now… it’s non dairy whipped topping. On a sundae that costs this much, that is an absolute travesty.
The last time I was here I had a chocolate soda with chocolate chip ice cream. My waitress made it as one would make a float, not a soda. Forgivable. However, the soda water had no fizz and ice cream way soft. It should be cold enough for ice crystals to form on the outside when the soda hits it; here, it was just all melty. Very, very sad.
The time before that I had a hot fudge sundae and it was ok. However, now you don’t get a choice of nuts like you used to and the whipped cream was as fake as a four dollar bill. Not cool.
Maybe get a milkshake if you go? I’d do one and a half stars if I could, but they don’t deserve a one star. I doubt I’ll return.

Some things change but fortunately stay the same, Mitchell’s is luckily one of those places.
Growing up in the south suburbs, Mitchell’s was a destination place for ice cream. It was a cut above the normal treat or baseball win destination. It was ice cream with panache! I carried the tradition on with my own children but may have lowered the bar for what merited a trip to Mitchells’s. (It’s Tuesday, yippee, let’s go to Mitchell’s.)
After I moved to Frankfort, I went back to Homewood less and there was a Mitchell’s in Mokena for a while. But those hot fudge sundaes have been calling my name lately and I have been answering the call.
Why? Because they literally have the best hot fudge sundae I have ever tasted and believe me, I have tasted a lot. They serve the hot fudge in a darling mini glass pitcher and it’s all hot, runny and darkly delicious. You get to pour it on yourself so you never get to a disappointing bottom with all ice cream and no hot fudge. They also have decadent candy that I only allow myself to buy a single piece at a time.
The same here is the taste, the care and the ambiance. The change is that this great establishment was purchased by and is operated by the Bravo Food Corporation of Chicago so there are no worries that it will go out of business. They even offer frozen cartons of their ice cream at Sweet Mandy B’s in Chicago because of a relationship the Bravo Corp has with that bakery.
Change with stability, I’ll eat to that. Let’s make it a hot fudge sundae!

It doesn’t get any better than $ 4 all you can eat ice cream mondays. It’s from 5 – 9. Fun and fattening.
I like their ice cream, its kind of pricey, but it’s worth it.

How could I have forgotten to write a review of Mithcell’s Candies & Ice Cream???
I was purposely taken here for a hot fudge sundae. I considered other options, but I went classic — vanilla ice cream and hot fudge. How can you go wrong?! This is definitely an «indulgence» as Lily S. put it. The candies Mitchell’s offers look tasty as well, but I had satisfied my sweet tooth for the time so maybe I’ll try those next time. Everyone we was very nice and helpful. I love the décor and the music.
All in all, I can’t wait to go back!

Excellent super creamy ice cream! If you want to indulge in some serious ice cream, Mitchell’s is the place. I absolutely love their fruit flavors… pineapple is amazing– but their season flavors are exceptional as well. I’m looking forward to the peppermint ice cream which should be available in take home containers any day now!

Decent ice cream, but the hot fudge is the star of the show.

Mitchell’s was a great old fashioned homemade ice cream, candies & soda fountain parlor. I think the original shop was somewhere in South Shore. I recommend the chocolate chip ice cream, it’s wonderful & unlike any other I’ve yet to have.

If there is an ice cream house with a sign «Since 1932» displayed, how bad could it be?
When this parlor closed last year, we were pretty disappointed. The ice cream was very good and handmade candies were certainly «evil» enough for me.
Thankfully, it reopened, with a little remodeling. We went for the first time last week and were very happy. We will be making more trips there soon.
It is a little more expensive than the rival ice cream joint in town, but here you get served at tables and indoors to boot!

Mitchell’s closed last year, much to the dismay of many ice cream afficionados in the south suburbs. But you know what? IT’S BACK, BABY!
I don’t know what happened and I’m not going to question it. I’m just glad that one of the finest ice cream parlors in the area has reopened!
Mitchell’s is part of the southside’s famous tripartite of candy shops and ice cream parlors. Along with Gayety’s in Lansing and Cunis in South Holland, Mitchell’s joins these allied forces as one of the oldest homemade candy and ice cream shops in the entire Chicago region. They’ve been scooping out homemade cream since the birth of Christ. I’m not even kidding. I saw video footage!
Me, I’m an old-​fashioned type of gal and I like to order a good old-​fashioned chocolate ice cream soda when I go to Mitchell’s. For you young punks that don’t know what that is, it’s soda water mixed with chocolate syrup and a little runny ice cream, then topped with two scoops of Mitchell’s homemade vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and a cherry. YUMMY IN THE TUMMY.
But their menu goes on and on. Sundaes, malts, sodas, and an array of delicious-​looking chocolates that would make Fannie May blush with sweet chocolate lust completes the experience.
If you’re one of those creeps (like me) that likes to dig up old ice cream parlors and try their sweet, sweet treats, then Mitchell’s should definately be on your list.