Crave Ice Cream in Isle of Wight

This is world class ice cream, service and price. It’s getting harder to get decent service but this place never fails.

Great selection, lovely Halloween themed flavours! Fantastic service, patient with us while we try some of the flavours and decide what to have! We went everyday during our recent stay! Highly recommend!

The best ice cream on the isle of wight

If you are in Ventnor, make sure you pay Crave a visit, you will be spoilt for choice, the flavours change daily - you can follow them on Facebook, and they update what they are dishing up. I had salted butter and ginger it was amazing. They are very generous with the scoops, and you can try as many as you want before you commit to making your final choice ! The team are so friendly and welcoming, and it is very reasonably priced.

Fantastic ice cream parlour with amazing unusual flavours. We all enjoyed their wares with the kids declaring it the best ice cream ever!

I love crave! I go every day when I'm on the island. My favorite is the salted butter, ginger cake ice cream

Walk around and came across crave, lush ice-cream worth a visit if your in Ventor and fancy a treat, I had the dark chocolate and strawberry favours rich and lovely as you would expect from a number ice-cream busy. Will be back if in the area. Sorry no photos enjoyed the ice-cream to much.

Probably the best icecream I have eaten, cherry and almond - like icecream Bakewell tart. Knocks Ben and Jerry's in their Vermont head quarters and Paris's Berthillon out of the park. Thank you Sarah

The best ice cream I have had in a long time. Worth every penny

Crave came highly recommended and it did not disappoint. The staff were pleasant, they knew the faces of regulars, and you can tell it’s a warm and loving shop. They were generous with tastes and the scoops. All this is secondary to the number of flavors. You can’t go wrong with any selection.

The most amazing ice cream ever and i consider myself an expert!! The staff were friendly and helpful. Would love to visit everyday if only for a friendly chat. Although i would not be able to resist the icecream. Lol . Would definately reccomend this as the place to visit on the Isle Of Wight.

Unusual and delicious ice cream. Worth the queuing at peak times.

If you are nearby, go in and get yourself the best ice cream I've ever had! Tracy is brilliant and actively encourages you to get tasters, I'm almost certain she'd have let me have a taste of all of them if I wanted to and she wouldn't have bat an eyelid. So many different original flavours that rotate every day. Couldn't recommend any more!

Really great, proper ice cream! Made on site, need to go back to try the other flavours! I fear my holiday will not be long enough to try all of them.

Had the coconut Ruffalo so lush😋 Well worth queing for

If visiting Ventnor do not miss a visit to Crave you will not be disappointed. Excellent ice-cream, unique choice of flavours, quality cone & staff very attentive - letting you try before you buy. Keep up the good work Crave!

Delicious ice cream with options for everyone! Great coffees, thick shakes and a smorgasbord of ice cream flavours! Waffle cones, giant flake.. so many choices! Great Vegan and GF options available as well!!

I had X2 scoop cherry chic chip & Jaffa cake, it was very nice

A fabulous recommendation - what a place! So many choices! Free tasters to try! I had the buttered waffle and honey sauce - a game changer! (Especially as I usually always have mint choc chip!) Lovely friendly service and a long queue! But soooo worth it! Catered for vegans too!

Amazing people, incredible menu, unique (but excellent) flavours and wonderful decoration! I can tell why it’s been open for so long. I would recommend this ice cream shop for anyone. Gluten free? They have options (including cones). Vegan? They have also got a few flavours. Menu changes daily so no reason to get bored. Incrediblely affordable too. (£3.20 for single scoop.) By far the best ice cream I’ve ever had.

Great flavours including vegan ones

We have just had the most delicious ice creams made on the premises. It has quite literally made our day! If you like decent dairy ice cream, have food intolerances or need to have plant based ice cream - you will not be disappointed. I can’t eat eggs or dairy - usually the choice is vanilla - take it or leave it in most places. Here I chose half a scoop of pomegranate ice cream and half a scoop of pink grapefruit - I can confidently say it was the nicest ice cream I’ve ever tasted (even harking back to the days I could eat dairy and eggs). There was also dark chocolate, lemon and also chocolate and cookie dough plant based options. If you can eat dairy there is an even bigger array of options. My teenage daughter chose miso caramel cheesecake and said it was delicious too. The owners told us the menu changes daily. They offered us a taste test too. As well as delicious ice cream, the staff and service were an absolute delight. Portions were generous - if you are on the Isle of Wight stop for an ice cream, detours are more than worth the effort. Sizes start with toddler portion. We went for lovely crunchy waffle cone, pots were also available. They also sold very good churros with a little pot of chocolate dipping sauce. Two generous ice creams (1 scoop with a waffle cone) cost us £6.40 in total. Cash or cards are accepted there.

Delicious, innovative ice cream

Oh my! Do not hesitate - visit Crave! The selection of ice creams is insane, super varied and exciting. Between the six of us we sampled quite a few flavours – I’d have to say the Turkish delight was my favourite! What a special place to have found!

We were told they sold the best ice-creams on the island. Well, we didn't try all of those, but went back a few times to Crave to try different flavours. They regurlaly offer new flavours. And the staff is nice.

Incredible ice cream, great service. Ask for tasters if they aren't too busy. Visit as often as you can. Best ice cream in the country. I had Salted Butter and Ginger Cake + Vegan Pear sorbet and it was sensational. My beautiful girlfriend has passionfruit ice cream a while ago and still tells people about it

Home made flavours that change every day. Proper dairy ice cream although they also had vegan options. Some bonkers but brilliant combos and the sizes are massive. My sister thought she'd been given the two scoop cone and had to downsize to what the manager called the "toddler cone". Even that would have challenged the greediest infant. She had blueberry pie. I had peaches and cream. I'd gain ten pounds if I stayed in Ventnor any longer because I would haunt the place daily. Unlike most of Ventnor it is open seven days. You will not be able to resist!

I have tried ice cream all around the world and this Ice cream is the best its 10/10! Chefs kiss every time! We are lucky enough to have this place on our doorstep and visit often. The only downside is you’re going to want to eat all the flavours as they are all delicious!

Amazing range of flavours, staff were friendly. Surprisingly, it wasn’t too expensive. We had ice creams for 5 of us plus a coffee and it came to £16. The coffee was fine but the ice creams were excellent. Only criticism is that they were quite busy. Not really surprised! They have good reviews because they deserve them.

Out of 7 days in Ventnor,I visited this place 5 times it caters for vegans and vegetarians it sells about 18ish totaling flavors of ice cream all made on the premises you can try anything you want but flavours change daily this is a must visit if you go to the Isle of wight let alone Ventnor

Second time visiting and such great service. You are asked if you want to taste test any ice cream flavours first which is fab and you can also have half of one flavour and half of another which is very generous of them! The sizes are really generous generally. They also have sugar free options if you ask! Will always return if we come back to this amazing place called Ventnor

Googled the best place for ice cream on the IOW and this place was recommended and did not disappoint! So many flavours and great decoration - looked and tasted great. Go check this place out if you want ice cream.

The best ice cream I've ever had, no doubts at all. I tried their clotted cream tea and lavender flavours in a cone and it tasted divine. Fresh, creamy, not too sweet and absolutely delicious. I'd go back in a heartbeat if I lived any closer. Highly recommend!

I visited here today after my husband was told by a work colleague that its the best ice cream ever!! Well all I can say is yes it is, what lovely welcoming staff. Amazing ice cream and you could taste it before you buy. Although I was being good and only tasted 2. However when it came to buying I got the biggest pot with 4 flavours of ice cream. I ate it all... I'm going back tomorrow to try different flavours...

Delicious ice cream, and lots of fun flavours to choose from. The staff are always friendly.

Ice cream varieties change daily, freshly made and incredible flavours.

Best ice cream ever. Fact. What a great shop and the staff are fantastic

Wowzers what a fantastic ice cream parlour. So many fantastic flavour options. Really unique flavours too like school cake ice cream. Rich and tasty. Magnificent size portions. They also do a lovely doggy ice cream. Lovely young lad serving...Best ice cream I've ever had and my husband is an ice cream connoisseurs he was well happy😊 ......well worth the visit to Ventnor!!!!!

Lovely people serving gorgeous ice cream! Don't miss the absolute crack of a doorstop they have at the shop!

We went to this fabulous family run ice cream parlour for the first time recently and have been back several times since, in fact coming over from the mainland especially for some of the baileys tiramasu which is indescribably good! We've enjoyed every flavour we've tried and it is amazing how they make things taste EXACTLY like it should, for instance the rice pudding flavour is exactly like rice pudding, the tiramasu has sponge in it, the Greek yogurt and strawberry was divine, just can't recommend it enough. Customer service second to none, and on a sunny day, the little public garden opposite is perfect. Completely worth making the trip here! The children were given tasters, treated with patience and respect, really appreciated it. Definitely be back..

Tracey thank you so very much for the baileys tiramasu, honestly worth the trip across from the mainland for it! The boys LOVED theirs and want to come "every day!" Best ice cream and customer service ever! We will definitely be back as often as possible

Finest ice cream I've had on the island. Great choice of flavours and such lovely staff. So welcoming and keen to help. Open when others have shut for the day. We'll worth the trip.

You need time. there is usually a queue. Also to enjoy picking the one you fancy from many choices and then enjoying said choice there is a tiny area with flower beds and benches opposite, also a wall you can sit on. Took friends they said the flavours were amazing.

Amazing! Having first come here 6 years ago, I was worried that I was remembering this through rose-tinted glasses. I’m pleased to report that this remains my favourite ice cream parlour in the UK, and probably the best I’ve ever been to anywhere. Amazing, inventive flavours. The quality of ice cream is great (the flavours aren’t just gimmicks- they really work) Service is friendly. Just keep an eye out as big queues can (deservedly) build up at times

What an amazing shop. It felt like there was every flavour ice cream you could think of and more. They were happy for you to try any different flavours and they were all soooooo good!

Cute little place and their ice cream was excellent. Really loved the coffee caramel whirl.

What a find this is! Incredible ice cream!! Loved the wagon wheel one!! Definitely worth a visit

Amazing selection of outlandish flavours such as egg nog, key lime cheesecake and cinnamon churros. These change very regularly and sell out fast judging by the number of flavours being scrubbed off the menu whilst in the queue outside - yes the queue here was outside it is so well renowned! A nice little option was the ice cream tapas where you can select a few flavours and have these served alongside some other favourites from the shop. I didn't partake in the ice creams myself but if the children were anything to go by then this place was the best thing ever... Anywhere!

Best ice cream on the island by miles. Creme brulee and chocolate_peanut were delicious. Even flavour that we'd normally shy away from like Lavender and Lemon/White chocolate were so good! They offer tasters because they know every flavour is tasty. Highly recommend, the only downside is it's busy so it's hard to find a seat 😅 Staff and owners are lovely.

Perfect in every way. Lovely selection of ice creams, friendly staff, well worth a visit. You can even sample the ice creams before you buy which is great. Reasonable prices too

Friendly, patient staff who let the kids try all the options. Delicious unorthodox flavours. Going to come back every day.

Have wanted to come here for ages. We live up in Cambridgeshire and come down to see family once a year, saw a post suggested on fb and read the hundreds of positive reviews and knew we had to pay a visit. I ordered the passionfruit and raspberry, and husband and son ordered the cookies and cream. 5/5.

An ice cream parlour with an innovative menu, lots to try and all tastes good

Loved this ice cream. Random but wonderful home made flavours. Its worth the queue and the queue is a testament to its popularity

Wow! This home made ice cream was sublime..after taste testing 7 flavours (yup, you can try them all), I settled on the raspberry ripple and chocolate. It was very hard to choose. They change flavours every day, so we'll be back to indulge again

Best place on the island for different flavour ice creams, so much choice, it's difficult to know what to have. Lovely friendly, efficient staff.

The most amazing artisanal icecream on the Isle of Wight! 🤩

I'm an ice-cream fan and I waited 3 years to revisit Crave and wasn't disappointed. Personally I don't think IOW has much to do for those in their 20/30's but getting a Crave ice-cream will certainly make up for it!

Honestly the most delicious ice cream I've had in a while, well worth the walk up the hill from the beach front car park. Portion sizes are great for the price and I really appreciate having a toddler size portion available to purchase! The menu has a great mix of classic flavours and interesting ones, switching up fairly frequently. The vegan ice cream was also very tasty.

Always amazing from the staff and service to the huge variety of icecreams 🍦. The black forest gateaux and carrot cake flavours are my personal favourites closely followed by rum and raisin. They make me feel like one of the family. Quility personal service. Thank you Team Crave

Crave never disappoints! Amazing flavours to choose from my favourites Turkish delight and black forest gateau. The staff are always helpful and ready to hand out samples, to help you make up your mind. Now we just have to wait until our next trip to the island.

What a little treasure Crave is?! We visit the island once every year and this is a firm fixture on our food map! Lovely and friendly customer service, always with a smile and let you have a taste of the ice creams on offer. The flavour options change so we have at the least 2 visits here during our weeks stay! 100% recommended! Can't wait to see your flavours this time next year.

An absolutely fabulous and long awaited visit to Craves. When we have visited in the past few years it's been out of season. So worth the wait!! The lovely young blonde lady served us and had plenty of spoons to offer tastings! I made an enquiry about my egg intolerance and she immediately knew which ice creams to avoid and offered special scoops to avoid any cross contamination!!! I went for my first tasting of the rhubarb ripple and paired with a salted caramel. Exceptional service & ice cream - thank you

Wonderful ice cream and so fabulous when helping with our son’s allergies. Awesome people and awesome ice cream 100% come here!

OMG! The ice cream is just amazing! Different choices of flavours - none of the bog standard ones. It was a very difficult to choose which ones to have! The staff are lovely and very very helpful. Don't get tired with the any amount of tasters you ask of them! Go earlier in the day or you might miss out on the more popular flavours as they can run out! On the last day, we had ice cream for breakfast as we didn't want to miss out on any opportunity of having their ice-cream!

Wow our favourite ice cream shop on the island we look forward to visiting them several times on our visit to the island Very good value for money plenty of choices very friendly staff who make u welcome a must visit

Amazing ice creams. Friendly service

I visited my boyfriend on the IOW for a week in late October and specifically went to this ice cream shop in Ventnor as they had so many unusual flavours on offer. My boyfriend is a type one diabetic, so he couldn't have anything, but he wasn't too worried about me having some, which was very sweet of him. I didn't opt for any unusual flavours or combination of scoops on this occasion, but went for plain and simple mint choc chip, as I love minty things! Very nice ice cream, and the guy who served me was very generous with his scoop portions, which I appreciate. I can't stand paying a lot for ice cream and then receiving so little in terms of how much ice cream you get per scoop! When I visit my boyfriend again in 2024, I would definitely wish to come here during the summer and come back here to try more flavours.

A real gem in amongst some of the tired and formulaic things to do on the Isle of Wight. Great ice-cream and some novel ideas like ice-cream tapas. Still call a Knickerbocker Glory by their name rather than a Sundae which is lovely (we had two and devoured them). By far the best thing is the chap behind the counter who just smiles continuously. He's living the dream. Well worth the visit and still a small queue out of the door in late October.

An old-fashioned looking ice cream shop with great character and amazing ice cream! I’ve been a few times on my visits to the island and it’s by far the best ice cream that you’ll find anywhere. The staff are friendly, they offer tasters if you’re unsure which of their many custom-made ice creams that you fancy. Previously I’ve had unique flavours like Turkish delight and cherry Bakewell, and today they had special Halloween offerings. I settled on a double tub of Berry brain (with a jelly brain topper) and pumpkin spice, and both were amazing.

Love the ever changing flavours! Amazing ice cream, super lovely staff, very fairly priced! Can't wait to come back!

Fantastic ice cream. Great flavours. Also excited by the prospect of an ice cream tapas! I will be back

A real holiday treat. Visited twice within our holiday week. Delicious ice cream and able to taste the flavours before buying. The giant flake was amazing! Staff were friendly and informative. Great value and well worth the money. Having too much smaller freezer at holiday home couldn't take more away.

Have never had an ice-cream from here before and it was lovely

Highly recommended 👌 The staff were friendly, offered tasters before purchase and even gave a little something to our dogs. The ice-cream was absolutely lovely with a great choice of flavours. 🍦💫

Very friendly staff and always very helpful. They will let you try as many flavours as you want.

Very nice staff who always have time to talk to you and great will my kids as they spend more time in there than me lol

Made a special stop on our IOW holiday purely to visit this ice cream parlour. It was further away from the seafront and other shops than I expected but worth the find. A chalkboard outside listed a huge range of interesting flavours, which we were able to peruse whilst waiting in line (there was a queue to be served). The only fear was them running out of your choice, when you got to the counter. Scoops of sticky ginger cake and caramel chocolate later we sat in the little park area adjacent and happily munched away!

Lovely staff, super lovely flavours of ice cream and really delicious. A must visit whenever on the island.

The best ice cream on the island no doubt and some of the best anywhere! Brilliant range of flavours and better still always changing. A must for us whenever we visit and a must for you as well.

This ice-cream parlour was recommended to us by the proprietoress of Westbury Lodge in Shanklin, and it undoubtedly does the best homemade ice-cream in Ventnor. One scoop of lemon, and one scoop of kiwi & lime, all in a gluten-free cone - absolutely delicious. 😋😋😋😋

This ice-cream parlour was recommended to us by the proprietoress of Westbury Lodge in Shanklin, and it undoubtedly does the best homemade ice-cream in Ventnor. One scoop of lemon, and one scoop of kiwi & lime, all in a gluten-free cone - absolutely delicious. 😋😋😋😋

Loved the gelato and the staff members are super nice, but be prepared for long queues. Wait time up to 30 mins!

Unique and scrumptious ice cream created by Tracy and her ever inventive team - a highlight of every visit to the Isle of Wight. This time I had the privilege of being one of the first to taste a brand new flavour: dolcelatte. Even more delicious than my previous favourite, Crave’s stilton. Looking forward to my next visit.

Visited today as a gluten free family, what a delightful experience, very friendly and extremely knowledgeable staff, they took cross contamination very seriously, change of gloves/separate gf scoop and know exactly what ice creams we could/couldn’t have. They actively encouraged samples/tastings and nothing was too much trouble. My 6yr old daughter has only recently started her gf journey and has found adapting hard when she can’t have the things she used to love so todays visit really filled our hearts seeing her so relaxed, happy and excited. Highly recommend Thank you so much

Really awesome choice of flavours. Friendly staff 😁

Fantastic ice cream shop very friendly staff we visit here 2 times a year when we are on our hols our children check out the flavours daily we look forward to visiting u again

Wow we love visiting here several times on our holiday loads of flavours of home made ice cream u don’t no which flavour to choose fantastic owners and staff ver friendly thank u can’t wait to see u next year

Beautiful ice cream and shakes great selection on offer very helpful and polite staff ,can't wait to visit again 🙂😎👍

If you have not tried Crave yet, you are missing out! Amazingly yummy homemade ice cream, what else do you need. They have lots of tasty flavours to choose from, something for everyone. The staff are very welcoming and happy to help you make a decision on what flavour you would like to try. They make suggestions but also will give you testers. Best place to get ice cream on the island.

Absolutely stonkingly good, unique ice cream with friendly staff and a great price too. My family and I managed to visit three times during our week away - some of the flavours we tried included key lime pie, raspberry & lime, mango & passion fruit sorbet, coconut, chocca mocha, salted liquorice, dark chocolate, macaron, butter shortbread, sticky ginger cake, Lego….I can’t even remember the rest….in an ice-cream induced coma 😂! £3 for a single which can be split into two flavours (pot or waffle cone) and is very generous in size, and free tasters are not only recommended but encouraged! I’m off to do some exercise….

This place never ever ceases to amaze... the scrumptious flavour concoctions that change virtually daily.... all sold on the basis of once it's gone you may wait a few weeks before that flavour comes back. However if you give them at least a few days / couple of weeks notice they will always try and accommodate a flavour by request. Just keep looking at their Facebook page as it does change daily, you can always ask if they have a tub left over of a flavour not in the display fridge. The tubs are also a great take home as long as you pack with plenty of surrounding cold blocks. DON'T FORGET YOU CAN SAMPLE ANY FLAVOUR FREE OF CHARGE & VERY HYGIENICALLY DONE

Back for our second visit, 7 years apart. Service friendly and welcoming. Samples offered to aid selection. I had the lemon sorbet , pomegranate and macaroons flavour.x the lemon sorbet was nice but not very lemony at all, the pomegranate was fab and the macaroon was my favourite !

Amazing ice-cream and service. They let you try a sample of the flavour before you buy. Always a fantastic experience and always busy.

Lovely ice-cream parlor with the view

Great ice cream and vegan to win win

Delicious flavours to lovely ice cream. Excellent service.

First time I've tried Crave ice cream and all I can say is....omg! So so nice and they give you a taster first with some ice creams. Staff are so friendly, we had the cherry donut and blackcurrant and apple cones. The best ice creams around. The que went down quickly too....thanks again Crave

Spotted this place and noticed a decent cue outside, a quick Google on reviews before we stood inline seemed to indicate it’s worth it… IT IS Soooooo worth it!! Had the Affogato with a dairy free scoop, tastebud heaven! 🤤

Amazing flavours great staff, can sample tasters before you buy.