Here's the Scoop

We love the ice cream here. We stop in whenever we are in Salida. You can tell the ice cream is homemade and Dick, the owner takes such pride in that. Stop in! You won't be disappointed.

We got the ice cream and it was made fresh and it was delicious!! Dick was very friendly and informative. Highly suggest stopping in

What a Gem of as n ice cream shop in Salida. It is a very old school, authentic , homemade ice cream shop made by the owner, Dick. He takes great pride with his creations and the creaminess in each scoop. I had an interesting and tasty flavor of strawberry licorice. It was fantastic!

So so disappointed by the staff here. It's been a while since we've been treated so so rudely. We have an allergy in the family. They were snotty about getting a clean scooper for us. And then just dipped it in the same damn water as everything else and acted like they were inconvenienced. I'm so so sorry that I actually thought you were there to DO A JOB. Go somewhere else where customers are appreciated.

Great little ice cream store. Neat young people taking and fulfilling orders. Nice selection of flavors and styles. Cute, cute, cute!Better yet is the great outdoor lounging area with a fire pit, comfortable seating and thoughtful grouping of loveseats. Pet friendly, too. Love to walk here for a sweet bite before bedtime!Thank you,Bill

Stopped in here on the way back home and enjoyed our ice cream... I couldn't decide between the mocha, espresso, and coffee flavors. Chose the mocha -- it was delicious! Kids loved their ice cream too.

Meh. Meh = serviceMeh = tasteI'm not sure if we showed up at a particularly busy time, it was a warm Sunday afternoon and we had no idea of open hours because there was nothing here on yelp and nothing we could find, so we tried our luck and they were open at 4pm. There was a line, a few families ahead of us and one ordered the mint ice cream - I know this for three reasons, 1 because I saw her get it, 2 because I saw the remnants of it on the grumpy server lady's glove and 3 because I later tasted it in my chocolate chip ice cream. While mrs grumpy face was scooping my husbands ice cream I also saw the unmistakable green color drip into the vanilla ice cream located behind his coffee flavor. Now, I'm not one for changing my gloves unless I need to, but it wasn't that busy that she couldn't take 30 seconds to do that, I would have waited.As for our ice creams, I got chocolate chip (with a slight minty taste at no extra charge) and caramel. They were nice, and nice to have homemade, which was one of my initial attractions, but nothing special, especially at over $5 for two scoops. My husband got espresso gelato and coffee ice cream. He said that you could absolutely tell it was gelato by the texture and funnily enough, they are charged at two different prices! It took the lady at the register a while to understand what we purchased but she got there in the end. I think part of the issue was that mrs grumpy scooped so much into my husbands cone that it looked like 3 scoops...and I did feel that she may have made up the difference with mine.

Amaretto gelato was the best vegan ice cream I've ever had! Staff was exceptionally friendly!!

The ice cream here is amazing. Dick, the owner, takes pride in his product and the ingredients he puts into each flavor and you can taste the difference. Don't let the interior dissuade you, his focus is on what matters, a superior product at a very reasonable cost.We walked in this afternoon as we walked through town and Dick was behind the counter. I didn't want ice cream at the time, but as someone who loves ice cream, I wanted to check out the different offerings in town to decide where to go after dinner.We were perusing the flavors and the man behind the counter (who I later learned was Dick, the owner) offered us a sample and told us all about his ice cream and why it is a superior product. Once I tasted it, I knew he was right and decided I didn't need to try anywhere else, I knew where to go post-dinner.We had dinner and came back to Here's the Scoop and Dick was still there. We got to chatting with him and he is a fascinating guy. He has lived in Salida for 57 years. He used to be a science teacher and so he took his time trying out recipes and determining which ingredients are necessary (milk, cream and sugar) and which are not (preservatives and all the other junk you get in commercial pints). And man, did he get it right. Between the two of us we each tried two flavors and it was impossible to decide which we liked best. While we stood there talking to him for half an hour or so, we also tried his vanilla which was the best vanilla I have ever had.We have to go back tomorrow to have more of his fabulous ice cream. Don't look any further, just go to Here's the Scoop and enjoy some of this amazing ice cream.

Best ice cream I've get had and the owner is the nicest man you can meet. Had a great time will go back again.