Best Ice Cream Shops in West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach, Florida — updated August 21, 2026
Three West Palm Beach spots for scoops, milkshakes and late-night sweets, ranked by how settled their ratings are, with hours and what to expect at each.
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West Palm Beach splits its frozen dessert scene between the downtown blocks around Rosemary Square and Narcissus Avenue and the strip plazas out on South Military Trail and South Dixie Highway. A lot of what turns up in a search here is national soft-serve and frozen yogurt, so the list below sticks to independents. Two of the three keep evening hours, which matters in a city where dessert is usually the second stop.
1. -4 Degrees Cafe - Best Ice Cream in West Palm Beach
The strongest combination of rating and volume on this list: 4.8 across 350 reviews, which is enough feedback to treat the score as settled rather than promising. It sits in a plaza at 2650 S Military Trail, unit 28, well west of downtown, so it is a drive-to rather than a walk-to after dinner on Clematis. Parking is the plaza lot, which makes it easier with kids than the downtown counters. If you are deciding between this and a downtown scoop shop, this is the one with the most consistent record behind it.
2. Sloan's
The most reviewed ice cream counter in the group, with 873 reviews behind a 4.4, so the rating reflects years of walk-in traffic rather than a small sample. The West Palm Beach shop is at 700 S Rosemary Ave, in the Rosemary Square area, and leans into an old-school ice creamery look, with candy and chocolates sold alongside the scoops. The flavor list is long and runs from plain banana and birthday to Balboa Banana Chocolate Chunk, Black & White Malt and Carol's Spectacular Spanish Peanut. Ice cream is made in house. Expect kitsch on the shelves and a line on weekend evenings.
3. Just Baked
A dessert shop rather than a scoop counter, worth knowing about for milkshakes and warm cookies when everything else downtown has closed its kitchen. It rates 4.8, but from 66 reviews, so treat that as promising rather than proven. The hours are the useful part: it opens at 5 PM Monday through Friday and 3 PM on Saturday, running late into the night at 255 S Narcissus Ave. The menu centers on stuffed cookies, including a Reese's version and a Slutty Oreo, plus milkshakes. There is a second location in Boca Raton, and the shop ships nationwide.
What we left off
Carvel, 16 Handles and Van Leeuwen all have West Palm Beach addresses and decent ratings, but all three are chains operating well beyond South Florida, so they fall outside this list. Crema Gourmet Espresso Bar on Clematis Street and Cafe Sweets on 25th Street both come up in dessert searches here, but one is an espresso and breakfast bar and the other is a bakery working in cakes, tarts and croissants. Neither is an ice cream shop, so neither belongs in this category.