Cold Cow Ice Cream

Hi, Simply St. Augustine friends! This post is part of my 31 Days of Summer in St. Augustine series. I’ve done all the research so you can kick back & have fun this summer! Read through all the ideas here.

I don’t love many ice creams.  There was Jeni’s Ice Cream in Ohio… but 14 hours is too far to drive for an ice cream cone, no matter how good it is.  I had resolved to watch my hubby & kids enjoy ice cream & frozen yogurt wherever we went but live a life of ice cream celibacy… until we were introduced to Cold Cow Ice Cream St Augustine.

Cold Cow's spicy Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream is my favorite!

My friend Mia was shocked I’d never heard of Cold Cow.  “What kind of St. Augustine blogger are you?” she probably wanted to shout.  Instead, she politely suggested I head over there first available moment and stop depriving your children of their best childhood memory (or something like that).

So we tried it.  And then we went back again & again.  This place is amazing!  Cold Cow serves up a heaping cone of freshly made ice cream- check out Andrew’s KIDS CONE for $2!!  Yes, $2!

Our sensible 2 y.o. requested “banilla” but then had a hard time deciding whether to enjoy her ice cream or go bounce on the bounce house!

What? I didn’t mention the bounce house? Well, they also rent bouncey houses and many days have one set up at both Cold Cow & Cold Calf locations for the kids to have some extra fun {free}.

Your kids can get sugared up and then go bounce off their extra energy!!

Or, if the ice cream line is long as often happens, they can bounce while they wait.

Cold Cow has a location on Anastasia Island & one in S St. Augustine near St. Augustine Shores.

Now I love ice cream.  Not any old ice cream- but just about any flavor from Cold Calf.  One warning: once you’ve taken the kids, they’ll never go by a bounce house without asking for Cold Cow Ice Cream!!

Cold Cow Ice Cream
Shoppes at Moultrie Creek - 4010 US 1 South
Tue-Fri & Sun 3pm-10pm & Sat 1pm-10pm
(904) 797-0626

Cold Calf Ice Cream Truck
802 Anastasia Blvd.
(904)315-5187

Waterfront Restaurants in St. Augustine

I wrote recently, in my Cap’s on the Water post, “for all the water we have in St. Augustine (Matanzas River, many creeks, the Intracoastal Waterway, and the Atlantic Ocean), we have very few waterfront restaurants!”

But then I started a mental list… alphabetically, of course, because I’m organized like that:

• Aunt Kate’s*
• Beaches at Vilano*
• Cap’s on the Water review
• Conch House
• Creekside Dinery*
• Hurricane Patty’s (Thanks for the correction, Michelle!)
• Kingfish Grill review
• Saltwater Cowboys*
• San Sebastian Winery’s bar has views of the creek*
• Santa Maria Restaurant review
• South Beach Grill*
• The Reef*

Then there’s the beachside one on St. Augustine Beach that supposedly serves a great breakfast (Beachcomber? Can’t remember the name.)

St. Augustine Restaurants with water views, as in they’re not on the water but you can see the water:

• A1A Ale Works*
• Acapulco*
• Harry’s review
• Mary’s Harbor View Cafe*
• Meehan’s review
• OC White’s*
• Panama Hatties’s at St. Augustine Beach

So it appears I was wrong.  St. Augustine does have several waterfront restaurants.  You have to know where to find them (several on the waterfront restaurants list are tucked away) but they do indeed exist!  And it also appears I need to get crackin’…  I’m behind on waterfront restaurant reviews!!  Where do you go for waterfront relaxation?

I’ve been to the restaurants with *, either without my camera or the blog is coming soon.  Don’t miss a review!! Sign up for posts to be delivered to your in-box {<- that’s the link}.