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The 2024-2025 Flagpole Guide To Athens, GA

Restaurants Frozen Treats

  • Alumni Cookie Dough

    alumnicookiedough.com

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 480 N. Thomas St. Athens, GA 30601. 762-400-2634

    File Under: Ice Cream, Something Different. • Cookie dough specially formulated to be safe to eat raw, available in many flavors. Jittery Joe’s coffee, milkshakes (with cookie dough), ice cream sundaes and toppings. Some vegan, gluten-free and keto choices. You can also take its product home and bake it if you want some crunch, or find it for sale around town.

  • Andy's Frozen Custard

    eatandys.com

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 2180 W. Broad St. Athens, GA 30606. 762-356-4330

    File Under: Frozen Treats. Features: Take-out, drive-thru, counter service. Hours: Seven days.

  • Baskin-Robbins/Dunkin'

    dunkindonuts.com

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 771 Prince Ave. Athens, GA 30606. 706-548-3444 View Map

    • 2081 Hog Mountain Road Watkinsville, GA 30677. 706-769-8363 View Map

    • 1045 Gaines School Road Athens, GA 30605. 706-353-7166 View Map

    • 1880 Epps Bridge Pkwy. Athens, GA 30606. 706-546-1635

    • 935 Highway 29 N. Athens, GA 30601. 706-548-6338

    File Under: Ice Cream and Smoothies, Coffee Houses and Bakeries. Features: Drive-thru, Wi-Fi, counter service. • Prince Avenue, Epps Bridge Parkway and Highway 29 locations are Dunkin' only.

  • Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shop

    benjerry.com/athens

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 105 College Ave. Athens, GA 30601. 706-208-0031 View Map

    File Under: Ice Cream and Smoothies. Features: Outside seating, counter service. Hours: Seven days.

  • Bruster's Real Ice Cream

    brusters.com

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 1029 Parkway Pl. Athens, Georgia 30606. 706-850-1249

    File Under: Ice Cream and Smoothies. Features: Catering, drive-thru. 

  • Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers

    freddysusa.com

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 2050 Oconee Connector Athens, GA 30606. 706-354-0671

    File Under: Sandwiches, Burgers and Chicken, Frozen Treats. Features: Drive-thru, delivery, take-out. Hours: Lunch and dinner, open seven days.

  • Hodgson's Pharmacy

    hodgsonsrx.com

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 1260 S. Milledge Ave. Athens, GA 30605. 706-543-7386 View Map

    File Under: Ice Cream. • Old-fashioned drug store with soda fountain counter. Dollar scoops of Edy’s ice cream in a cup or cone. Malts, shakes and floats, too. Sit on the hill outside for the best experience.

  • Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams

    jenis.com

    Price: $$

    Locations

    • 1710 S. Lumpkin St. Athens, GA 30606. 706-493-7377

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    File Under: Ice Cream. Features: Take-out, counter service. Hours: Seven days. 

  • Jennings Mill Drug Company

    facebook.com/jenningsmilldrugco

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 1360 Caduceus Way Watkinsville, GA 30677. 706-621-5996

    File Under: Frozen Treats. Features: Counter service, take-out. Hours: Lunch. • Drugstore soda fountain does milkshakes to order plus sells some prepackaged snacks.

  • La Michoacana Antojitos Mexicanos

    instagram.com/michoacana_aths

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 3750 Old Jefferson Road Athens, GA 30607. 706-202-5890

    File Under: Frozen Treats, Mexican. Features: Counter service, take-out, outside seating. Hours: Seven days. • Hundreds of flavors of popsicles and ice cream in this shop attached to La Jalisco grocery store and taqueria. Also: street-food snacks like a grilled ear of corn encrusted with Hot Cheetos, agua fresca with ice cream, sliced mango with chile powder and a fruit cup topped with spicy gummy worms.

  • La Michoacana Es Natural

    instagram.com/lamichoacana_esnatural

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 1635 Glenn Carrie Road Hull, GA 30646. 706-521-8008

    File Under: Ice Cream and Smoothies, Mexican. Features: Outside seating. Hours: Seven days. • Astonishingly good Mexican ice cream shop that makes flavors fresh in-store daily (including queso, tequila, eggnog and more), as well as gorgeous paletas full of fruit, smoothies, aguas frescas and street-food snacks like Dorilocos and loaded potato chips. Its food truck shows up at the J&J on weekends with ice cream and savory stuff.

  • Mochinut

    mochinut.com

    Price: $$

    Locations

    • 1860 Barnett Shoals Road Athens, GA 30605. 706-850-6554

    File Under: Asian, Tea Houses and Bakeries. Features: Counter service, take-out. Hours: Lunch and dinner, open seven days. • It's a franchise that's known for its rice-flour donuts and Korean corndogs coated in things like Hot Cheetos, but Chef V is busy serving delicious Indonesian dishes that you won't find at any other location. She's always tinkering with the menu, so ask her what's good and you'll end up with something that hits every kind of tastebud in your mouth. Breakfast is available sometimes. Good boba, too, and now rolled ice cream.

  • Pelican’s Snoballs

    pelicanssnoballs.com

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 510 Baxter St. Athens, GA 30605. No # specified.

    File UnderFrozen Treats. Features: Outside seating. Hours: Seven days (closes in cold weather).

  • Planet Smoothie

    planetsmoothie.com

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 196 Alps Road Athens, GA 30606. 706-316-3090 View Map

    • 1993 Barnett Shoals Road Athens, GA 30605. 706-353-8181 View Map

    • 1791 Oconee Connector Athens, GA 30606. 706-521-5833

    • 2361 W. Broad St. Athens, GA 30606. 706-369-3111

    File Under: Smoothies. Features: Catering. Hours: Seven days.

  • Scoops

    scoopsicecream.com

    Price: $$

    Locations

    • 1725 Electric Ave. Watkinsville, GA 30677. 706-705-6051

    File Under: Ice Cream. Hours: Seven days. • Small Georgia ice cream chain with other locations in Madison and Monroe has lots of kid-friendly ice cream flavors, plus an excellent selection of candy, including vintage and obscure items.

  • Smoothie King

    smoothieking.com

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 1591 S. Lumpkin St. Athens, GA 30605. 706-613-2600 View Map

    File Under: Smoothies. Features: Catering, delivery, Wi-Fi. Hours: Seven days.

  • Treathouse Candy and Cones

    treehousekidandcraft.com

    Price: $

    Locations

    • 585 Barber St. Athens, GA 30601. 706-850-8226 View Map

    File Under: Ice Cream. Features: Outside seating. • Athens' most magical toy store Treehouse Kid and Craft also has an ice cream and candy shop, with vegan soft-serve (vanilla or a rotating fruit flavor) served in super-cool cones in unusual flavors, plus popsicles and both old-timey and imported candies. Think it's crazy to put salsa matcha on your ice cream? Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.