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(612) 870-0065
1007 W Franklin Ave
Minneapolis,
MN
55405
44.962718
-93.291881
Neighborhoods: Lowry Hill, Calhoun Isles
Price:
$
Last updated 9.01.11
Category:
Ice Cream Parlors, Restaurants
Payment Methods:
Check, Visa, MasterCard
Restaurant Special Features:
Family-Friendly Dining, Lunch Spot, Cheap Eats, Outdoor Dining
General Info:
Open 7 Days
Smoking Permitted:
No
What People Are Saying About Sebastian Joe's Ice Cream Cafe
Featured Review
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In Short – This sparse and casual space has a few tables and a small performing area at one end of the room. Long a cool spot for people-watching; always a popular destination when the dew point climbs high. Both new spins and old favorites are on the ice cream list of more than 80 flavors. Traditionalists love the heady vanilla, which uses ground beans instead of extract. The daring try ginger-cream or spicy cayenne-laced chocolate coyote.
Editor's Tips
- Fun Fact:
- The Franklin Avenue Sebastian Joe's was one of Minneapolis' very first coffeehouses.
- Know Before You Go:
- Sebastian Joe's also has another equally worthy location on Upton Avenue in Linden Hills.
- The Extras:
- Along with 24 unique ice cream flavors, Sebastian Joe's also serves a heaping helping of sorbets, malts, frozen yogurt, float and sundaes. Its rotation of homemade ice-cream flavors has made it an institution, but this place also knows a thing or two about classic spumoni and fruity sorbets.
12/17/10
Sebastian Joe's Excellent Place
by Not a Minnesotan at Citysearch
Every time we visit Minneapolis (our daughters) we have to go to Sebastian Joe's on Franklin street for the ice cream variety and the coffee. It's a great pleasure to take the grandchildren who pick a different ice cream flavor each time. Mine is the pot hole chocolate. The coffee is so good I order it sent to me at Christmas time to give as gifts. My favorite is Italian Espresso. Last time we were there I was impressed with the seemingly endless line that went out the door. The wait was enjoyable as a people watching experience. This place is on our "Can't be missed place" each time we visit the Twin Cities.
10/17/10
Meh.
by shanajo11 at Citysearch
We were vising the area and spent some time searching around on-line to find a good place to take our kids to get ice cream. We came across Sebastian's and the reviews looked good, so we decided to try it out. Due to where we were staying it was a 1/2 an hour drive to get there, but we thought it would be worth it.
Least to say, it was so not worth it. The cashier was extremely rude for starters. Then it was over $4 for a cone with one scoop of ice cream. The ice cream was not even pushed down into the cone, and the one scoop that each cone got was way too big for the size of the cone, so it was tipping off of the cones. Not to mention that the ice cream started melting immediately and two of my kids had to throw their cones out after only 4 minutes of eating them because it was melting all over their hands.
My husband and I got coffee and it was truly the worst coffee we've ever had at a coffee shop. A cup of Folgers with some Coffeemate creamer would have been better. Both of us felt ill after drinking 1/2 of our cups of medium lattes. The coffee was so, so bitter to the point where it almost sour. My pumpkin latte just tasted like bitter coffee with a scoop of mushed pumpkin mixed into it. Not good.
I have no problem spending a good chunk of money on good coffee and desserts, but this was not worth what we spent at all. Huge disappointment and we will not be returning.
12/03/09
yummy!
by miss mazy at Citysearch
love this place !
at times, bad service, but who cares?!
great prozen yogur, great malts
- Pros: best frozen yogurt!
- Cons: service...
10/25/09
bad customer service
by welshie at Citysearch
I don't know why I expected warm fuzzies when I entered Sebastian Joe's for the first (and last) time in years today. Perhaps it was because I have such good memories of going there when I was little; I didn't expect the cold welcome and the rude comments by the cashier as she told me and my husband that we could not stay in the establishment because we had dunn bros coffee in our hands. Perhaps the owners of the two establishments are in a bitter blood feud, and cannot stand even the sight of the other store... regardless, I think it is bad policy to humiliate one's customers
- Pros: best ice cream, nostalgia
- Cons: crabby cashier lady
09/21/09
The best ice cream in twin cities.
by Pavel Ushakov at Citysearch
They have pretty much the best ice cream in twin cities. I especially like Oreo! Also Rum and Raising is very good.
I see they now have a fan site at sebastianjoe com
- Pros: taste, location
- Cons: price
