Hidden gems - Ice cream shops in Manchester, United Kingdom not to miss (Updated February, 2024)

Hidden gems: Ice cream shops in Manchester

Discover the city's hidden treasures—remarkable spots that are relatively undiscovered but offer exceptional experiences. Our selection criteria? A rating of 4.5 or higher with fewer than 150 reviews. Explore these lesser-known yet outstanding places that promise a delightful visit in Manchester. This list contains 63 places from Ice cream shop category.

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Lanzas Traditional Icecream

Ice cream shop

👍👍 We've hired Lanzas on multiple occasions to provide some theatre (and of course ice cream) during our INDX trade show events. All our exhibitors, visitors and staff(!) love it when the Lanzas ice cream bike is in town! A fantastic quality product and service with the biggest smile! Highly recommende...

5.00 (71 reviews) (~44.01 km from centre)

The Proper Ice Cream Company

Ice cream shop

5.00 (63 reviews) (~64.07 km from centre)

Lion House Tearoom

Cafe

👍👍 What a terrific place. Friendly, super-smiley service. Great food, sensible prices. One of Leek's 'hidden gems'. And terrific filled oatcakes of course...plus WiFi!

$ $$$

5.00 (52 reviews) (~44.09 km from centre)

Glacier Desserts Cafe

Dessert shop

👍👍 Amazing place, I had desserts here instead of a birthday cake 😂

5.00 (26 reviews) (~9.58 km from centre)

The Cheese Wheel

Cheese shop

👍👍 What a wonderful, local cheese shop. Filled with a wide range of cheese, chutneys, crackers, European beers, and even a selection of wine. Happy to see some non alcoholic options too. The proprietor was very knowledgeable and happy to help. Highly recommended.

5.00 (25 reviews) (~20.52 km from centre)

Just Desserts & Milkshakes Ltd

Dessert shop

$ $$$

5.00 (19 reviews) (~69.11 km from centre)

Triviso Ice Cream

Ice cream shop

5.00 (9 reviews) (~53.47 km from centre)

Hard Dock Cafe

Cafe

👍👍 Lovely little place , great prices, lovely staff always smiling and the food is delicious. It's a very nice sociable place to be. Would visit again :)

5.00 (8 reviews) (~45.67 km from centre)

Sweet Like Chocolate

Candy store

👍👍 Thee most amazing sweet/ice cream/waffle shop ever! They have a huge ammout of good old fashioned sweets right up to the latest super sour fizzy sweets, then on the other side of the store they do amazing and I mean amazing ice creams. You can choose from a simple cone to a super tray that's got Mr...

5.00 (7 reviews) (~44.31 km from centre)

Coletta’s Ice Cream Shop

Ice cream shop

👍👍 Probably the best ice cream I've ever had. The cone was fresh and the ice cream large and soft, the flavour was excellent and for what you got the price wasn't bad at all. I recommend

5.00 (6 reviews) (~60.01 km from centre)

Buzzy Bee Bakery

Bakery

👍👍 I first became a customer of Buzzy Bee via their postal service, but now I visit the shop in Wilmslow, so it's certainly about time I left a review. It's hard to pick a favourite as everything I've had from Buzzy Bee has been delicious. From the cinnamon rolls, to the extensive range of brookies, t...

4.90 (139 reviews) (~16.91 km from centre)

Pink Ladies Dessert

Cafe

👍👍 We come here regularly, at least 3 times a month. Lovely little place with really friendly staff. They always greet us with a warm welcome on every visit. Gorgeous food with lots to choose from. The homemade cakes are amazing! My favourite is the peanut butter stack. Great value for money, would...

4.90 (132 reviews) (~8.88 km from centre)

The Dessert Guys

Ice cream shop

👍👍 We've just used this business for the first time and omg the cheesecakes we're AMAZING. I'll definitely use it again.

4.90 (90 reviews) (~47.68 km from centre)

Sweets n Shakes

Ice cream shop

Takeaway · Delivery

4.90 (58 reviews) (~99.9 km from centre)

Min-y-Don Deli

Sandwich shop

👍👍 For a quick and filling, delicious and fresh roast dinner, you can't go wrong. We just turned up and ordered but they do prefer if you can call ahead to pre order. I had my partners meat as she is a vegetarian so had a double helping. Thats how good they are there. Parking is just around the corne...

4.90 (38 reviews) (~88.09 km from centre)

More Than A Sundae

Ice cream shop

👍👍 Staff were amazing and welcoming. The waffles, ice cream and coffee were superb definitely going back. Also very dog friendly and welcoming.

4.90 (38 reviews) (~76.87 km from centre)

The Milking Parlour Clitheroe

Ice cream shop

😐 We visited with our young family recently. Great location and excellent ice cream however we found the staff to be rude on the occasion we visited. We had very young excited children with us and made the trip especially so it was disappointing to be ignored, to be sneered at when one asked for sauce...

4.90 (17 reviews) (~44.66 km from centre)

Espositos Court Hey Park

Coffee shop

👍👍 Great selection of lunch, snacks & cakes, drinks & ice cream in Court Hey Park.

4.90 (14 reviews) (~42.63 km from centre)

Elemar Cafe'

Cafe

👍👍 Consistently fantastic ! This was our 4th visit to this authentic family run Sicilian cafe. The hospitality is superb and everyone is so welcoming and friendly. The coffee is great (Worker Bee) but the Italian cuisine is quite simply superb and everything is cooked fresh by the owners. We had pasta...

$ $$$

4.80 (145 reviews) (~9.68 km from centre)

Leonardini gelato boutique

Ice cream shop

👍👍 Gorgeous gelato. Never heavy or overly sweet. Beautiful flavours - every day different. For example today included Toblerone, Pinot Grigio peach, raspberry yoghurt, straciatella, vegan grapefruit sorbet. There are always 8-10 to choose from. Victoria sponge cake ice cream is my fave so far!

$ $$$

4.80 (128 reviews) (~72.99 km from centre)

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Hidden gems: Ice cream shops in Manchester, United Kingdom