Uncle Louie G’s

There flavors are excellent the service is awesome!!! There spumoni ice cream is to die for!!! The ice flavor is ok not better then L&B but def the best on the island

This is the second in a series of Staten Island reviews I’ll be doing, based on my «Staten Island Adventure» with Jill R. and Rebecca G.
Funny enough, I did not start with the first place that Jill R. and I went to the minute we got off the Staten Island Railway. Have you ever taken that thing? It’s a trip. I’m pretty sure two homeless kids with bikes were trying to make fun of me. Anyway, it took about 20 minutes for the thing to get going, Jill and I had worked ALL DAY, and then taken a BOAT to sit and listen to these homeless kids with disproportionate ages (one of them was clearly a grown man actually) say really ignorant thing and have their nips keep slipping. Yeah… they were wearing tank tops in September.
My point is: I needed ice cream.
I said as much at one point at the ferry terminal, ’cause they have some sort of substandard ice cream you can buy at the ferry (sorry ferry ice cream stand). This place was like a majestic beacon the minute you get off the great kills stop. When we in, NO ONE WAS INSIDE. I was going to get something more classic, like a waffle cone or some such, but my instincts asked if she could make a milkshake in any of the flavors available.
Could she? Oh, she could.
I had a cookies and cream milkshake. It was fantastic. I did suck it down way too fast, and essentially had a dairy hangover for the next 6 hours, but this was aided by not eating anything all day. The lady talked to us for a bit, too. They had games for kids inside. Some sort of rewards program I could not properly sign up for. There’s a big ceramic ice cream thing in the window. Good place to bring kids to, I would say.
IP.S. Joe G. and I were talking down 2^nd Ave later the next week, and I saw a stand outside a pizza place for the SAME EXACT ICE CREAM. I’m like I JUST went to this place on Staten Island. Then the guy behind the counter yelled, «Hey! That’s where I’m from!» I’m glad I waited to write this so I could tell you that part. It was the best part of the whole thing.

If you’re going to charge Manhattan prices for two quite small scoops of ice cream, those scoops should have really distinctive flavor. Uncle Louie G’s coconut and Brooklyn cheesecake flavors had excellent texture — really dense and creamy and without the slimy, unpleasant texture found in ice cream that relies too much on chemical smoothers. Probably the best texture I’ve found in ice cream. However, the flavors were really blah. They weren’t sweet enough. There was no taste of cheesecake, and just a bare hint of coconut flavor.

I absolutely love this place!!!
The ices are delicious with tons of flavors to choose from, my personal favorite is «holey cannoli».
The prices are cheap and making it a great little local shop. Also, it is conveniently located right next to the Great Kills train station.