Tess' Place

This is the cutest little ice cream shop! Delicious high quality ice cream, clean, cozy atmosphere, and great service! For either a family outing or a date night treat I highly recommend it! Try the Graham Central Station flavor 10/10 recommend! Theres plenty of flavors for even the pickest palate. There is even a little store attached with boutique and gift items. All around Tess's is a must in my book!

The school has really nice decorations and environment. My friend and I visited them, a lady served us ice cream. It was very hot and humid that day and those ice creams tasted good too! We left with those ice creams and roamed around the downtown and the murals. While coming back, we visited Tess’ Place again to buy water, and that lady served us free water! And she didn’t mind us sitting there while just drinking water. It was a good experience.

Fantastic ice cream! We will definitely be back to try the gourmet sodas as well. The only improvement needed is that it’s too quiet. It could definitely benefit from some background music.

I work in Decatur on a sort of seasonal basis and recently had my last visit out to the area for what will likely be a while. I wanted to go out in style, so I decided to go to this little ice cream parlor for a treat to sort of say goodbye. The shop is small and shares some open space with a next door gift shop type space. It's cute and welcoming inside, with a lot of homages to dogs. I'm guessing Tess is the Frenchie, but regardless...the Frenchie stuff is extra cute. :) They have about 10-15 different ice cream flavors and some neat sounding soda mixers. So think of your favorite soda (Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Coke, etc.) and then add some flavors like raspberry, vanilla, pineapple, peach, etc. They have some existing winning combinations or you can create your own from a list of flavors!

Unfortunately a great place that is going downhill. The person working last night may need to be supervised for busier shifts. We were told we couldn’t get a soda last night, the way he explained it, they were missing half their soda menu but we could get a plain sprite, even though the syrups were clearly right behind him. My husband ordered a milkshake, and was told it would be a little bit of a wait- He helped the 2 customers behind us while me and my son finished our ice cream, and then told my husband he couldn't make the milk shake because something about the equipment (i think, i just recall him fumbling a bunch of words). I don’t want to give this business a bad review, I just want a small business to have some honest consumer feedback. I hope my review is helpful and next time we