Magnifico's Ice Cream

[Daniel]

I have not been to Magnifico's in 10 years.. But, I have always loved there Ice Cream.. I have always just stayed with the Vanilla or Chocolate Soft Serve.. I want to call it a custard, its just so dense and creamy. Magnifico's has it all they offer hard ice cream, milk shakes, blend ins,sundays with an array of toppings.. Marshmallow to me is a must..I am impressed with there freshly made waffle sandwichs, homemade cookie sandwiches, and the pretzle cone.. Heavily salted, its a great thing.. And the people working when I went were fast and skilled..

A fine cone:

I dont know much about the Ice Cream or the history besides it being around since 1981.. I was hoping this post would get people speaking about the place..

Edited June 19, 2006 by Daniel (log)

[jesskidden]

I dont know much about the Ice Cream or the history besides it being around since 1981.. I was hoping this post would get people speaking about the place..

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I grew up in the area, and that's been what we used to a "custard stand" as long as I remember (early 60's), but that was back in the days when just about every town in the area had a custard stand (and cones typically cost 10-15-20-25 cents for the various sizes, based on the number of levels.). The "Spotswood" section of Monroe had one on Englishtown Road (now a florist), Spotswood had one next to the school on Main St. at the intersection with Devoe, later a lunchenette and now a bank's parking lot sits there. IIRC

In Jamesburg, there was Lake Freeze at the corner of Railroad Ave. and Forsgate Dr., opposite the park entrance, which was expanded to also be a pizza joint by the last owners, DiBrizzi's. It closed after the flood and nearby road collapse last summer, never re-opened and the property's up for sale. (The building USED to have a giant cone on the roof and Jamesburg High School year books routinely featured a shot of a bunch of guys on the roof, "licking" the cone.)

There were a bunch of other ice cream joints in EB- a Dairy Queen on Rt. 18 (that had a eat-in food section that served a nice char-broiled burger, too)- now a tuxedo rental joint and the recently torn down one on Milltown Road and the Rt. 18 North one after the Burger King that's probably been a used car lot now longer than it served ice cream. Sayreville (up on that hill on Bordentown, maybe?) and South River on the Causeway, Old Bridge's Carvel on Englishtown Rd, etc.

Freehold's "Jersey Freeze" on what used to be the Rt. 9/Rt. 33 Circle still survives quite nicely, as does the former Jack Frost in Englishtown, now called Four Boys or Four Brothers or Four something-or-nother.

Certainly "Magnifico's" (and it's predecessors) often featured the most impressive crowds on hot summer nights as one drove down 18...

[Anonymouze]

This place was less than 2 minutes from our first home (we didn't want "apartment life") down in central NJ so we bought our first house there in the East Brunswick/South River area. We went there fewer than a handful of times in the 10 years+/- that we lived down there and usually I'd go around the 2nd corner from there to Riddle & Martin for some delicious subs so we'd have a high-caloric well rounded out meal. I always liked their ice cream and stuff at Magnifico's. They always had great seasonal stuff and cute novelty items as well!

Edited June 19, 2006 by Anonymouze (log)

[Randi]

...and the pretzle cone....

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Food porn at its best. I love salty and sweet. You're killing me!

[Daniel]

This place was less than 2 minutes from our first home (we didn't want "apartment life") down in central NJ so we bought our first house there in the East Brunswick/South River area.  We went there fewer than a handful of times in the 10 years+/- that we lived down there and usually I'd go around the 2nd corner from there to Riddle & Martin  for some delicious subs so we'd have a high-caloric well rounded out meal.   I always liked their ice cream and stuff at Magnifico's.  They always had great seasonal stuff and cute novelty items as well!

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Ahh yes... Riddle and Martin as well as the European Provisions is on my list of write ups..

[Sutter's Lives]

i live in town and its always been good...the employees i know dont get paid a lot and the owner is less savory than the ice cream he serves.

i wish 18 was more like it was back in the 1950's rather than the way it is now.

[Allura]

My mother has on occasion stopped to pick up their fruit sorbet in a fruit shell to bring to a bbq or such. It's a bit outside my stomping ground otherwise. However, the big question: do they make their own *hot fudge*? I will swear undying loyalty to the first ice cream place I find that does that! Holstein's in Bloomfield used to, but I haven't been there since I was a kid...