Custard Castle

I get the strawberry smoothie every time and 100% of the time I love it. I can’t give 5 stars bc I don’t eat anything else.

Good ice cream, moderate prices, friendly enough staff… they don’t fall all over you with smiles and thank you for stopping by, but they take your order and you get what you want. The ice cream is really good. Standard prices for ice cream. Not a rip off, not the best deal in town. Plenty of parking. Probably good for groups to pull over since they are right on route 322.

Custard Castle is a bit of a tradition in my family. As we traveled down to my grandparents’ house in Ocean City, NJ dozens of times each summer my father would utilize back roads as opposed to the AC Expressway/​Garden State Turnpike route. These roads were — and remain — way less congested and more scenic, often just as fast if not faster than the previously mentioned route and can cut back on your toll expenditure. That being said, if you end up taking 322/​the Black Horse Pike towards Ocean City or Sea Isle you will inevitably roll by many fun little shops and restaurants (and strip clubs) some of which time have forgotten, many of which are abandoned. One of these is THE Custard Castle.
Now that my story is out of the way… The Custard Castle is a fairly standard independently owned (?) ice cream shack with a massive menu of cool treats and even some hot eats. You got your soft serve, hard ice cream, milk shakes, blizzards, sundaes, hot dogs, pretzels, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. I recently returned and service remains friendly and the ice cream remains inexpensive.
I highly recommended getting off the major highway at some point. See the local sights, get some ice cream and have a more relaxed drive down to the shore.
P. S. I never would have suspected an ice cream shop from my childhood in the middle-​of-​nowhere New Jersey would be my 200^th review!