I walk out of the Boulder Bikesmith, look left, and stop dead cold, as a visual anvil hits me smack dab in the retinas - a Cold Stone Creamery. Really? Really?!!?! On a 90 degree day? Satan, you are a crafty one, tempting me away from having controlled blood sugars and limited caloric intake and all that other stuff - fine, let's check it out! (scampers down the walkway to CSC). The inside is cool and a welcome respite from the late afternoon bakery oven outside. I scoot in right before a mom and 2 presumably college-age coeds get in. I lock onto the menu: Apple Pie A La Cold Stone. Check. I look at the ice cream flavors -- and get another surprise *thwack* in my corneal rods and cones -- my favorite flavor, Cake Batter, comes in a "Sinless" variety -- Splenda mixed in. "Choose Sinless in your favorite Creation to reduce the ice cream calorie count by 57% with zero grams of fat." *Really*? Wow. Maybe it's not the Dark One at work here after all, but a purer power filled with light and not high fructose corn death, er I mean syrup... (I just checked -- their website has full nutritional info on all their flavors. KUDOS to them. And in case you're wondering...47 flavors of ice cream, 19 candy toppings, 12 fruit toppings and 12 miscellaneous toppings. Suh-*weeeeeeeeeeeet*. =^9 ~~~ ) I just checked the difference between the "sinless" cake batter flavor and the normal one: while the carbs are practically the same, the sinless variety has about 60% of the calories, 1/20 of the fat and about 40% of the sugar. Not "sin-FREE" by any stretch of the imagination, but certainly "sin-LESS"...if you're on a diet of any kind, you're committing a misdemeanor when you eat this, not a full-blown felony. And the taste? *VERY* close to the full-calorie variety. Served up with a smile, and I even let the gaggle of giggling gals ahead of me, which was appreciated by the mom. Hey. It's all good here. Really. :)
(5)
Diane K.
Sad to say I went in to Cold Stone today and sampled a few flavors. Each of them had this "old' taste to it--sort of like the freezers stopped working for a little bit and then kicked back on, the melted and refrozen type taste. Hard to explain, but definitely not fresh. I went ahead and ordered the Sweet Cream with Reeses. It was just bland. Not typical Cold Stone. Bad form. Good service though.
(2)
Cat J.
Great products! The cookies are the best deal. Four big ice cream sandwiches with four flavors of ice cream for $10! Yum!
(5)
Sara M.
It was such a warm afternoon and I was in this shopping center for another reason so I stopped into Cold Stone on a whim. Given the weather, I was surprised that there were no other customers. But other times it has be quite hectic. One of the really nice things is that they do make their ice cream on the premises and in small batches. They use nice little metal tubs in the case, like a gelato shop, and it looks so much more appetizing than those old messy cardboard tubs some other places use. The super friendly young man at the counter happily sold me the small kid's size which is all I can handle. I got my favorite, coffee, with Oreo mixed in. A win when I want to splurge. The price on this size was considerably less than a similar size at another popular place in town. I also would like to mention that though a small shop, it is nicely decorated and furnished and has always been very clean when I visited.
(4)
Amy E.
The ice cream here is decent, the mix-ins are fun. An acceptable experience. The one real problem is that the prices are exorbitantly high. A small, and I mean small, cup of ice cream with a few little bits of mix-ins costs more than $6. Ack! Given that a fantastically good and locally-owned ice cream place, with considerably better prices, is located only a few minutes away at Broadway and Alpine, I can't find any reason to visit CSC again.
(3)
Denver G.
Friendly service and great options. We stopped in here after picking up some spicy Indian food at the Tiffins next door.
Stephen K.
I walk out of the Boulder Bikesmith, look left, and stop dead cold, as a visual anvil hits me smack dab in the retinas - a Cold Stone Creamery. Really? Really?!!?! On a 90 degree day? Satan, you are a crafty one, tempting me away from having controlled blood sugars and limited caloric intake and all that other stuff - fine, let's check it out! (scampers down the walkway to CSC). The inside is cool and a welcome respite from the late afternoon bakery oven outside. I scoot in right before a mom and 2 presumably college-age coeds get in. I lock onto the menu: Apple Pie A La Cold Stone. Check. I look at the ice cream flavors -- and get another surprise *thwack* in my corneal rods and cones -- my favorite flavor, Cake Batter, comes in a "Sinless" variety -- Splenda mixed in. "Choose Sinless in your favorite Creation to reduce the ice cream calorie count by 57% with zero grams of fat." *Really*? Wow. Maybe it's not the Dark One at work here after all, but a purer power filled with light and not high fructose corn death, er I mean syrup... (I just checked -- their website has full nutritional info on all their flavors. KUDOS to them. And in case you're wondering...47 flavors of ice cream, 19 candy toppings, 12 fruit toppings and 12 miscellaneous toppings. Suh-*weeeeeeeeeeeet*. =^9 ~~~ ) I just checked the difference between the "sinless" cake batter flavor and the normal one: while the carbs are practically the same, the sinless variety has about 60% of the calories, 1/20 of the fat and about 40% of the sugar. Not "sin-FREE" by any stretch of the imagination, but certainly "sin-LESS"...if you're on a diet of any kind, you're committing a misdemeanor when you eat this, not a full-blown felony. And the taste? *VERY* close to the full-calorie variety. Served up with a smile, and I even let the gaggle of giggling gals ahead of me, which was appreciated by the mom. Hey. It's all good here. Really. :)
(5)Diane K.
Sad to say I went in to Cold Stone today and sampled a few flavors. Each of them had this "old' taste to it--sort of like the freezers stopped working for a little bit and then kicked back on, the melted and refrozen type taste. Hard to explain, but definitely not fresh. I went ahead and ordered the Sweet Cream with Reeses. It was just bland. Not typical Cold Stone. Bad form. Good service though.
(2)Cat J.
Great products! The cookies are the best deal. Four big ice cream sandwiches with four flavors of ice cream for $10! Yum!
(5)Sara M.
It was such a warm afternoon and I was in this shopping center for another reason so I stopped into Cold Stone on a whim. Given the weather, I was surprised that there were no other customers. But other times it has be quite hectic. One of the really nice things is that they do make their ice cream on the premises and in small batches. They use nice little metal tubs in the case, like a gelato shop, and it looks so much more appetizing than those old messy cardboard tubs some other places use. The super friendly young man at the counter happily sold me the small kid's size which is all I can handle. I got my favorite, coffee, with Oreo mixed in. A win when I want to splurge. The price on this size was considerably less than a similar size at another popular place in town. I also would like to mention that though a small shop, it is nicely decorated and furnished and has always been very clean when I visited.
(4)Amy E.
The ice cream here is decent, the mix-ins are fun. An acceptable experience. The one real problem is that the prices are exorbitantly high. A small, and I mean small, cup of ice cream with a few little bits of mix-ins costs more than $6. Ack! Given that a fantastically good and locally-owned ice cream place, with considerably better prices, is located only a few minutes away at Broadway and Alpine, I can't find any reason to visit CSC again.
(3)Denver G.
Friendly service and great options. We stopped in here after picking up some spicy Indian food at the Tiffins next door.
(5)