Nola Snow Snoballs

The snowballs here are quite tasty, and the prices are competitive, but the lines get long and the parking is tough at times, as they share their lot with other businesses.The best time to stop here is any time other than after school. There are several schools in the neighborhood and this is a favorite post school snack spot. Please heed my warning if waiting in lines is not your thing, and you can put off your snowball craving until any other time. Once you have made it to the front of the line, your choices are many, and I've yet to have a snowball here that wasn't delicious. My favorite is chocolate with sweetened condensed milk. Their soft serve ice cream is also pretty good if it's not a snowball you're craving.

Snowballs! Who doesn't love them? My favorite- Chocolate with extra condensed milk ! A really nice additional is their new (new to me) item is the "Snobet".Certainly got the chocolate, wedding cake and flan "Snobet".... Snowball meets sherbert type ice cream/soft snowball ice. You have to try them! These people are the nicest people I have ever met. They will go above and beyond to right a wrong!!

4.5 starsDisclaimer: This review will be quite similar to my review of Nola Snow Snoballs on Vicksburg St, as they are serving the exact same snowballs at 2 Lakeview locations.I love me some NOLA Snow snowballs. As I stated in my review of the Vicksburg Street location, "the owners, Rudy & MiMi, are all about New Orleans. The staff is always friendly and if they aren't too busy, they'll answer questions about nearly every single flavor on the menu if you are having a hard time deciding on which flavor to get.Today, we had some family from Arizona at our house and they wanted to get a snowball. We told them all about Nola Snow and advised them that we could be there is less than 5 minutes. Fast forward 5 minutes and we arrived at the Harrison Avenue location and ordered 4 kiddie sizes as samplers for our out of town guests. They opted to get cherry, watermelon, coconut and white chocolate macadamia. All four of these are very good flavors, but in my opinion, nothing tastes better or is more New Orleans than their NOLA nectar.This location is in the heart of Lakeview, as I like to call it, and caters to what I like to refer to as the "South side" of Lakeview. The service is always friendly and Rudy & MiMi (as well as their daughter) are frequently on-site. This specific location is my go to snowball stand; especially since since it is less than 1 mile from my home. The only reason I give them 4.5 instead of 5 stars is that sometimes, the ice can be a little coarse and not completely velvety smooth. However, Nola Snow can hold it's own with any snowball stand in the city.

What I like about this place is that the cost for snowballs are very reasonable. They also had really good options on their menu and it was not overwhelming. What I do not like about this place is my experience with ordering a snowball. I was in line behind many Caucasian customers who left with snowballs drenched in juice, yet when it came to my order, they skimped me. The structure of the cone was perfectly shaped, and the entire inside full of ice untouched by the syrup. While the flavor I chose was pretty good and I like some of the options they had, my experience with them in that instinct turned me off to wanting to do business with them in the future. I definitely let the other African-Americans behind me know to check their snowballs and food before they left the stand (because if the store skimped me and no person who ordered before me in the line, then I wanted to be sure that they had a better experience than I did). The other menu items were overpriced in my opinion. For instance, nachos and cheese is $4.50 without peppers, they up charge for two or more flavors, and for a stuffed snowball, it varies on the size of your cup. There is outdoor seating under umbrellas.

They drown the ice in syrup that it's so overly sweet . I threw it out after 1 bite. If the syrups are homemade which I highly doubt based on the super bright colors they need to rethink the sugar ratios

Came back 25 years later after loving this place as a kid... still great! One of the best snowballs in the city. Bonus points for snowballs stuffed with soft serve.

Our family has been driving to Lakeview to enjoy the snoballs at Nola Snow since our kids were little. We love the safe little spot to eat them under the umbrellas. The staff is friendly, the ice is shaved like snow, the flavors are unique, and they even have nachos! It's a family-run business, and we feel good about supporting a local business. We often visit the pet store next door and enjoy window shopping at the art gallery next door. Great spot! Great people! Great snoballs!

Surly workers, slow af, gross syrups, chunky ice. They're actually serving bland, midwestern snow cones...go literally anywhere else (start with Hansen's, Chance in Hell, or Sal's) I honestly don't know how this place even stays open.

Service is slow. They won't accept a $50 bill even when they've been open for hours and have change and you're buying more than $20 of snowballs. Added to the slow lines and mediocre snowballs, I really wish I had never allowed my children to come here. Just nothing positive to say.

I just had my first snowball of the season here yesterday and it was delicious! I got the flan flavor out of curiosity and it didn't disappoint-- at least flavor wise. I took away one star because the syrup was just too thick to penetrate the ice. It took a long time with the spoon to get to all the pockets of white snow at the bottom, which gave enough time for big ice chunks to form. I'm know it tricky because you don't want the syrup too watery, but this delicious treat would be even better with a syrup that's less thick.