Fairway Creamery: a sweet review

We love to stop and get ice cream wherever we see it. If it’s Ted Drewes in St Louis, Mr. Ed’s in the middle of nowhere Missouri, Braum’s on our way to Colorado, Andy’s after tennis matches, or even a quick trip for a 99 cent QuickTrip cone — we always stop for ice cream. My dad and I are ice cream fanatics.

So I was pumped when I heard the news of a new spot opening in town. We picked up a friend and rushed over to the Fairway Creamery — located at 59th and Mission in the place of the old Pizza 51.

I highly recommend going there on the early side—it gets crowded later. We got in line at the perfect time with just four people ahead of us. Three girls were working behind the counter, all willing to help us rookies out.

Staring at the scrabble tile board of options I couldn’t decide what to get. I asked a worker behind the counter for a recommendation and she answered with chocolate — boring. Looking for an alternative to the plain flavors, I asked for a test of the blueberry cheesecake. It looked appealing with the blueberries mixed in, but it tasted a bit sour and overly sweet. So I went with the bananas foster flavor — smart move. While we paid I wandered around looking at the Christopher Elbow chocolate selection, with chocolates made from countries like Peru and Haiti. 

We went outside and sat at one of the giant picnic tables under the red umbrellas. I had to sneak a bite or two of my dad and my friend’s order — I mean, the more ice cream the better. My dad went with the Thai iced tea soft serve dipped in chocolate and my friend picked out the confetti cake.

The confetti cake was creamy and extremely sweet. It had sprinkles all throughout.

The Thai iced tea flavor tasted as if they took a Starbucks peach iced tea and turned it into ice cream. It was bizarre, but good. The chocolate coating had a wavy texture that didn’t sit well with my tastebuds.

The bananas foster was the winner without a doubt. It was creamy, and had a strong banana flavor, but not too rich. A little chocolate wouldn’t hurt. I think it might even beat out Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey in my ice cream power rankings. By the time we finished we saw the line was backed up to the door, but were willing to wait it out for a second go around. 

We all saved room — cause that’s what true fans do. I was debating on getting an orange cream soda float or splitting a sundae. I decided to split the “Fairway to Heaven”, which was vanilla ice cream with an old fashioned donut, sprinkles and chocolate sauce. The portion of ice cream was overflowing in the cup. My dad stuck with the staple root beer float that was more Lost Trail root beer than ice cream.

The place was a perfect blend of your friendly neighborhood ice cream shop and the addition of exotic flavors. The wild flavors up on that board still puts Christopher Elbow high up on my dad and I’s ice cream hit list. By the end of the night all three of us were so stuffed we had food babies.