Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams

There just isn't anything better than stopping in and enjoying a cup of Jeni's truly splendid ice cream. Jen I worked on perfecting her ice cream for years before discovering a secret ingredient that makes her ice cream the creamiest, smoothest ice cream you'll ever try! She has a variety of creative flavors and even dairy free!

This location seems small but there is seating upstairs so you can annoy your treat with a splendid view of the U Street corridor.

Jeni's is a popular DMV ice cream spot with locations throughout the city (and pints sold in store). The quality of the ice cream is fabulous-I love the Butter Cake, Chocolate Blackout, and Texas Sheet Cake. However, my main complaint with Jeni's is that literally over half of the menu is only available as a pint-doesn't that defeat the purpose of a scoop shop?
I also feel like the shops would benefit by having some toppings (hot fudge, brownies, etc) as if they're going to have such limited flavors, may as well be able to jazz it up a little!
Overall, fabulous ice cream, not so fabulous options. Please make more flavors available by the scoop!

Jeni's Ice Cream is a must-go!

I've been to Jeni's a few times now and truly have never had a bad experience. They serve quality ice cream in a variety of unique flavors - arguably one of the best in the District!

The 14th street location was beautifully decorated in the style of their new Punk Stargonaut flavors collection. Loved the vividly colored balloons that complimented the white brick interior!

My personal favorite Jeni's flavor is the Darkest Chocolate, a smooth dark chocolate blend packed with fair trade cocoa. If you are a chocolate lover, Darkest will be the flavor for you!

My friend and I split a waffle cone trio and got it with Darkest Chocolate, Fluffernutter Pie (Peanut Butter, Vanilla Marshmallow, and Oat Pie Crust Pieces), and Brambleberry Crisp (Oat Streusel and Brambleberry Crisp). I applauded my friend for choosing such a great trio of flavors! This was a lovely blend of chocolate, fruity jams, and solid crust/crisp pieces woven perfectly in a high-quality vanilla ice cream. Delectable!

The service at Jeni's has always been so positive in my experience! Their staff is always so kind and are very helpful if you want to sample any of their flavors.

If you are in need of a post-dinner sweet treat or late night snack, look no further!

Bruh this place is so good im a super moon apologist!! They have a great selection of classics w authentic spins to totally new flavors (Supermoon lowkey has a soapey quality to it but I would liken it to lavender). All in all great shop!

Very high quality ice cream with a lot of delicious flavors to choose from. The ambiance inside the store is also very nice and they even have an upstairs seating area.

Definitely a great place for dessert if you are in the area!

Here are the flavors that I've tried:

COFFEE WITH CREAM & SUGAR: Intelligentsia coffee steeped in cream, enjoyed this as a coffee lover.

BRAMBLEBERRY CRISP: A popular flavor! Oven-toasted oat streusel and a sweet-tart brambleberry jam layered throughout vanilla ice cream. Definitely recommended if you're craving a fruitier tart flavor.

BROWN BUTTER ALMOND BRITTLE: Brown butter almond candy crushed into buttercream ice cream. Enjoyed this as well!

We got the lemon, salted caramel, and brambleberry-- all were good. Service was fast and good. The ambiance is very casual, so good to go with friends and family. The day we went, however, the AC was broken and it was extremely hot and stuffy.

So came in for ice cream and workers ignored me. Was the only customer and they both walked out. Only the one worker even asked why I was taking pictures, really!! It is called yelp.
So the guy filling out paperwork just walked past me to the back and then the girl just went to the back and looked through the window in the door. Weird people here. Suggest anyplace but this location.
Both ignored me and provided no service at all.

One word: DIVINE

Jeni's is probably one of the best once cream places I've ever been to! The ice cream itself is DELICIOUS. Silky smooth, creamy, flavorful with a fragrant aroma, and it doesn't have any ice particles or taste overly artificial. The flavors here are pretty unique. I tried 5 flavors (all delicious) and had such a hard time choosing. Ultimately went with the pineapple upside down cake (so good and goey with cake pieces and cherries ) and the goey butter cake batter (also amazing, packed with flavor, and has butter cake pieces in it ). Truly one of the best ice creams I've ever had. My only complaint is that the ice cream tasted slightly salty which I wasn't a huge fan of.

Apart from the ice cream, the decor here is so cute and "instagrammable". The seating is spacious and airy with real plants and interesting photos to browse.

The equations of Jeni's:
* Start with a small, well-lit, clean store.
* Add a number of handcrafted, intriguingly unique flavors.
* Subtract the hassle of figuring out which flavors are dairy-free or otherwise altered from the standard ice cream.
* Subtract the fact that ice cream is repeated in FOUR different cases - but not perfectly repeated, there are a couple of changes from case to case. Really confusing.
* Add friendly service that patiently explains what you might have on hand.
* Add storemade waffle cones (worth the price, nice and fresh and crisp)
* Add giant portions - I got two scoops in my cone and I feel like it was 3 scoops' worth of ice cream in the end.

Flavors are named for what they are. Hot Toddy texture looked thrown off by the whiskey so I went for... was it brambleberry? A little lacking in berry but clearly handmade... and was it brown butter almond? because the pecan is dairy free? but this one was a little odd in texture with the crumble in it.

Overall, Jeni's is an invite to explore and see which flavors strike you, except your favorite flavor is not going to have the amount of dairy you seek, and then confusion... but then ice cream. In the end, ice cream cures all.