Sweet Melissa's Ice Cream

Sweet Melissa's Ice Cream Seasonal Soft Serve at 200 W Seneca St from April-September Serving up some delicious ice cream goodness downtown Ithaca!

Both dairy and vegan (while supplies last) varieties! Also has the best soft serve you'll have try! "To my customers: Matt and I decided to open an ice cream shop for two reason- that it was in the family business and that it could bring just a tiny bit of joy to the community. I have experienced such a wave of gratitude and appreciation from our loving customers, that I am moved beyond belief. I

am so grateful that I could extend small joys to you in our ice cream and then in turn receive such an amazing amount of recognition and fulfillment in doing so. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for your continued support and encouragement, we couldn't do this without all of you!"
-Melissa

Blueberry Matcha Floats using a homemade blueberry matcha syrup, soda water, and a float of vanilla soft serve! Perfect ...
06/12/2026

Blueberry Matcha Floats using a homemade blueberry matcha syrup, soda water, and a float of vanilla soft serve! Perfect in this hot, muggy weather!!

Cooler weather is coming next week, what would you like me to bake? Fun brownies? Dessert focaccia? Cookies? You let me know and I will maybe grant your wish!

Open 1-9 everyday, cash only!

💙💚-Melissa

Homemade hard flavors today: Brownie Batter Oreo, Matcha, and Coffee Biscoff. We will also have Purity Ice Cream Vanilla...
06/11/2026

Homemade hard flavors today: Brownie Batter Oreo, Matcha, and Coffee Biscoff. We will also have Purity Ice Cream Vanilla and Chocolate Mint until they run out!

Open 1-9, cash only!

Great time last night at Taste of the Finger Lakes!! Go follow Jyl's Photo Booth to see where she’s popping up next! We ...
06/10/2026

Great time last night at Taste of the Finger Lakes!! Go follow Jyl's Photo Booth to see where she’s popping up next! We should get her to come here, right?! Let’s make some ice cream props!

Mango Soda Floats today!! I made a mango lime syrup and made a mango soda with it and soda water and we put a float of v...
06/10/2026

Mango Soda Floats today!! I made a mango lime syrup and made a mango soda with it and soda water and we put a float of vanilla soft serve with it!! Perfect for this hot weather! We do have some of my homemade spiced cola syrup if you loved that one! I thought it was SO delicious with our cherry syrup!

Come take photos with our new mural and tag us so I can see them! It’s all done! Thank you so so much to , it’s everything I wanted for our space!

Open 1-9 rain or shine every day! Cash only!

💛Melissa

ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!! Come and get FREE RAINBOW SPRINKLES on any order today if you mention this post! It’s my fav topping!...
06/09/2026

ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!! Come and get FREE RAINBOW SPRINKLES on any order today if you mention this post! It’s my fav topping!!

I’m not at the shop today, I’m celebrating today all day at and yummy snacks at !! THEN I’m going to for the best dinner ever!! I PROMISE I’ll serve ice cream and treats again next year for it!

🩷🩷Melissa

MATCHA COLD FOAM SHAKES today!! Get the matcha cold foam on top of any flavor milkshake, we recommend strawberry!  🤤🤤🫠Al...
06/08/2026

MATCHA COLD FOAM SHAKES today!! Get the matcha cold foam on top of any flavor milkshake, we recommend strawberry! 🤤🤤🫠

Also how AMAZING is our mural coming from !! We talked about adding stripes last week and I requested blue and orange as an homage to the iconic colors and I think it turned out FABULOUSLY!! Please tag us in the photos you take with it as a background, I’ll never get tired of looking at it!

I’ve been working on making ice cream today and will tomorrow so we should have some homemade hard ice cream ready by Wednesday! Thanks all for understanding!!

Open every day 1-9, cash only!
🧡💙Melissa

So. Ok. *Sigh.* We’ve had SUCH a weird year as far as hard ice cream goes and when we finally got our shipment in last w...
06/05/2026

So. Ok. *Sigh.*

We’ve had SUCH a weird year as far as hard ice cream goes and when we finally got our shipment in last week from our manufacturer (it was super late this year since we had only just got in our new walk in freezer), customers noticed pretty quickly that it wasn’t up to our usual standard of deliciousness. We’ve spoken to the manufacturer this week and they will be remaking all of it for us, woo hoo! Our plan was to have a couple set flavors that they make in bulk (cause let’s face it, I can’t do the same thing over and over again) and then they will also make my recipe’s ice cream mix so I can still do rotating fun flavors in small batches (since I don’t have the Tburg shop anymore to pasteurize it myself). But now that got pushed back once again.

So. Instead of depriving the hard ice cream diehards even longer, our friends at the legendary quickly ran us over some of their ice cream, so we’ll have their Vanilla, Green Tea, and Chocolate Mint Oreo flavors since they’re the closest to what our hard flavor menu will be! We’ll have these through the weekend, and then and I will make our flavors starting next week with just the generic ice cream base most places use (and how I started making ice cream with too)! THEN I’ll let you know when our own recipe comes in and those set flavors are back.

Phew!

Ok. Small business life, amirite?! 😂😉😬

Thank you so so much to Purity, we’ve had so much fun getting to know them the last couple years!

Open 1-9 everyday, cash only!

🩷Melissa

We had SO much fun today with The Empire Plate, so much hilarity, laughter, and fun! Thanks for letting me boss you arou...
06/04/2026

We had SO much fun today with The Empire Plate, so much hilarity, laughter, and fun! Thanks for letting me boss you around too Bill! 🤣😂 You guys are welcome back any time! Can’t wait to see the show!

Go follow their page to see where they go next!
🩷Melissa

It’s almost SHOW TIME!! The Empire Plate will be here by 3:30 and I made them (and all of you!) the BEST treats!! We hav...
06/03/2026

It’s almost SHOW TIME!! The Empire Plate will be here by 3:30 and I made them (and all of you!) the BEST treats!! We have my most delicious ever Italian Rainbow Ice Cream Sandwiches, Sugar Cookies and Warm Caramel Ice Cream Parfaits, Peanut Butter Cup Brownies made with our fudge brownies, a layer of homemade pb cup filling, and topped with chocolate ganache, and so many kinds of ice cream cake slices! Two have brownies inside (one with fudge and vanilla ice cream and one with peanut butter, fudge and chocolate ice cream), the two Berry and orange vanilla one from yesterdays post and a couple sugar cookie ones from the weekend!

Come between 3:30-5 if you want a chance to be on camera! And go check out their YouTube channel for full videos, they go around New York State and film food shows at tons of mom and pop restaurants and eateries! Really fun show!

Open 1-9, cash only!
🩷Melissa

Our shop is getting so much more beautiful,  will be here all week painting a mural for us! Geneva worked for us for sev...
06/02/2026

Our shop is getting so much more beautiful, will be here all week painting a mural for us! Geneva worked for us for several years and even was the only employee ever to work at all three of our shops!! We are ecstatic to be able to support her art career!

We have her here JUST in time for The Empire Plate to be here!! They’ll be here TOMORROW so if you want to be in a video for our shop, come on over between 3:30-4:30! We’ll also have AWESOME specials for it like Peanut Butter Cup Brownies, my infamous Rainbow Italian Ice Cream Sandwich cookies, and some ice cream cakes with a BROWNIE layer!!

Speaking of ice cream cakes- we do have one as a special today even though our specials board is down. If you can’t decide between our Two Berry Twist or our Orange Vanilla Twist, this one’s for you! It has layers of both with a chocolate cookie crunch center!

Open every day 1-9, cash only! And now that it’s past Ithaca Festival and the college grad weekends, our line isn’t *quite* as long! 😉

🩷Melissa

Address

200 W Seneca Street
Ithaca, NY
14850

Opening Hours

Monday 1pm - 9pm
Tuesday 1pm - 9pm
Wednesday 1pm - 9pm
Thursday 1pm - 9pm
Friday 1pm - 9pm
Saturday 1pm - 9pm
Sunday 1pm - 9pm

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