Santa Barbara Ice Creamery

Don’t waste your time. They don’t know how to hand pack ice cream — so they hand you a cup with scoops without any lid. But I had to drive home — so I needed a lid. So she smashes it down and removes half of the ice cream and still can’t get it sealed. Then she takes a dirty counter rag and removes the excess ice cream. She still can’t get it sealed. Now I’m seeing what I paid for sitting on a dirty rag and she’s now contaminated what I’m taking home with that same rag. I finally just took the cup and left. By the time I got home there was melted ice cream on my console, leather seats and carpets on both sides of the console. I kept asking her to just transfer it to a bigger cup — but she said she could not do that. I got home and threw it away — $ 5.25 down the drain, Now I have to go to the car wash. Thanks, but no thanks. The Board of Health needs to inspect this place.

Prices are pretty good and I love their milkshakes. My sisters have tried the ice cream, and they said it was pretty good as well. They have a good variety of ice cream.

Ummm… No air-​con??? What the heck!
Good choices, variety, and friendly staff.

I nearly forgot this place was even open still. Tucked in the middle of a strip mall between Save Mart and CVS/​Pharmacy on Country Club Drive. The first thing I noticed that it was extremely warm inside and did not seem we were in an ice cream shop. Took about 3 minutes before the lone worker popped out of some closet/​office to take our order. I had a waffle cone with Dutch Chocolate and Cookies and Cream which was Ok but did not knock my socks off. My friend ordered a shake and said it was good. The décor is little run down and still has the Baskin Robbins vestiges of 20 years ago when it first opened. It has a few more flavors and options than good ol’ Rite Aide ice cream. A little clean up with fresh paint and turning on the AC unit could help this place a long ways but maybe not enough foot traffic these days.