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| - My wife and I spotted Lumpy's as we were driving home, un-desserted, from Hot Dog Diner. The decision required some discussion-- it looked a little scary-- but we turned around and gave it a shot.
Lumpy's is one of the few places that serves both hard (as they call it; meaning "hand-packed") ice cream (which they scoop out of cartons) and soft (or "frozen custard"), which gets extruded out of machines. Both are made in-house. They offer 16 flavors of hard (chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, plus 13 that rotate), many of which have chunks (nuts, chips, etc...) mixed in there. There are only two flavors (vanilla and chocolate) of soft.
You can get either option in your shake. A shake with hard ice cream will be a lot thicker. I prefer that; my wife does not. The hard ice cream might have chunks in it-- which can be a plus or a minus. A shake made with soft ice cream (which has air whipped in) costs less and is easier to eat. Its consistency is more like a Wendy's Frosty-- although Lumpy's soft ice cream (unlike Wendy's) tastes like ice cream, not chocolate-flavored milk of magnesia.
You can also get either in a bowl-- or on cones. (I saw plain and dipped-- chocolate and strawberry-- which can also have sprinkles.) I think those are done in-house, but I didn't see any made.
My wife had the "Chocolate blackout" (dark chocolate ice cream with chips) in a bowl and was very happy with her choice. Two scoops at Lumpy's would be equal to three or four at some places.
I had a marshmallow sundae with two varieties of ice cream and had a mixed experience. The ice cream was very good. "Triple play" is vanilla with toffee chunks, peanuts and chocolate chunks. Mint cookie chip is mint ice cream with chocolate wafers crushed up in it..
The sundae featured toppings that were not homemade-- in fact, were the sort of stuff (sauces, whipped cream, nuts, incandescent red cherry) that you find at pretty much any ice cream place that buys in bulk from GFS or one of the other wholesalers.
We also had a chocolate shake made with with soft ice cream (chocolate). That was either "perfect" or "would have better if it used hard ice cream-- OUCH; don't judo chop me!"
Lumpy's lets you order at a drive through (good if you're ordering something they have every day), or sit on picnic tables under a roof, so you can listen to classic rock and view scenic Pearl Road. (There's no indoor seating-- it's a small shop.)
Personally, I'd always go in, because I'd always order hard ice cream and would want to look at the flavors of the day. My wife, who likes soft, probably never would.
And that's the big selling point for Lumpy's-- it can cater to people who like both "ice cream" and "frozen custard", which most places can't.
Lumpy's gets three stars, but it's 25 minutes away from my home. That's the same distance as Mitchell's in Rocky River, (which would get five). Mootown Creamery is very comparable-- better in some ways, worse in others-- but it is less than ten minutes away.
So, as they say, your mileage may vary-- and so will your opinion. If I lived a few blocks away, like the first reviewer, I might tack on another star. I expect we'll go back-- but only because we do shop over there, and we might be in the mood for something sweet.
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