During a visit to the Newport Mall, I decided to treat the family to Haagen Dazs, and boy did it fall short of expectations. But, let's start with the good:
This ice cream shop is a bit hard to find - it's on the second floor right above the Cheesecake Factory (you're welcome).
It's a very small shop, with a handful of small tables to eat at.
They do have a fairly large variety of ice cream flavors, which you can choose from on the sign in the wall. They offer scoops, shakes, and drinks blended with ice cream.
The staff is pretty nice and accommodating - they showed love with extra napkins.
The Dazzler (basically a big plastic cup of ice cream with different toppings mixed inside) was pretty good and a good size, like a grande coffee, for the price.
Now to the not so great part of the experience.
My group ordered ice cream scoops and a shake. I went all in for the $10 option with 3 scoops. And what I got looked like one big half melted scoop in a cup. It was a sad sight to see - I posted the picture with this review for reference.
Yes, the ice cream tastes good. But, it's the exactly same that you get from the containers at the store. Since 3 scoops at this shop is equivalent to almost half a pint, you can barely share it. S
So, scoops are like sample sizes and just a waste of money when you can buy two pints at the market for the same price.
This is the first time I've ever been to an ice cream shop that skimped on the serving sizes like this. So, I'll be taking my ice cream money elsewhere, like Torico where they are more generous.