Old Town Creamery
In October 2026, Old Town Tustin got a very good new ice cream shop that's promising frozen bananas
Around the time Old Town Tustin went through a major reconstruction project, signs went up at the Artz Building – a historic landmark built by the son of Tustin’s namesake founder – heralding the upcoming opening of a new ice cream store and restaurant at the corner of Main and C Streets. Though they share the left and right sides of a common space, they turned out to be separate businesses, and the former is named Old Town Creamery. Old-fashioned black and gold window lettering indicates that the shop will sell ice cream, soft serve, and frozen bananas, but as of our November 2026 visit, the only offerings were hard-packed ice creams and a small collection of serving options ranging from cones and cardboard bowls to colored plastic baseball caps.
Perhaps because it’s in early innings, Old Town Creamery doesn’t show off its ice creams either visually or on a traditional sign board, instead using two-sided laminated cardboard menus to list 22 initial flavors. Standard ice creams include Banana Pudding, Black Sesame Latte, Blueberry Hills, Blue Moon, Butter Pecan 2.0, Caramel Macchiato, Cookie Dough, Cookies in Cream, Cookies in Minty Cream, FTW Chocolate, Grand Raspberry Cheesecakes, Old Reliable Vanilla, Salted Vanilla Truffle, Strawberry Cream, Super Strawberry, and Wizard’s Buttery Brew – a Harry Potter-inspired butterscotch. Six vegan, dairy-free options span Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Coconut Cake Batter, Coconut Ube, Hawaiian Coconut, Strawberry, and Vanilla.
Prices for the hard-packed ice cream are pretty simple: $6 for a single scoop, $9 for a double scoop. No pricing has yet been announced for the soft serve, the frozen bananas, or anything else that might be sold here, but we suspect they’ll be pretty reasonable (by modern inflationary standards); despite our initial concerns that the ice cream cups were small, the individual scoops were nicely sized, and we felt they were fully worth Old Town Creamery’s asking prices.
We tried four flavors on our first visit: Black Sesame Latte was a particular standout, combining very strong, wonderfully nutty sesame flavor and light texture with an underbelly of coffee ice cream and swirled fudge – a collection of flavors and textures that work so wonderfully together that you can barely stop to pick the notes out individually. Cookies in Minty Cream was also unexpectedly great, dark green and strongly minty thanks to significant creme de menthe in a sweet cream base, hugely swirled with a generous number of Oreos that were just shy of pureed to complete softness. These were no-corners-cut flavors.
Another flavor, FTW Chocolate, was a little more basic in concept – European cocoa in a supposedly “award-winning chocolate ice cream” – but equally well-executed, very strong in its promised flavor and low enough in ice content that every bite tasted creamy and chewy without any obvious crystallization. The least memorable of the bunch was Blue Moon, which apart from its bright light blue color was only vaguely citrus sherbet-like and mostly vanilla flavored; this much was disclosed on the menu, but it was pretty plain.
Based on our first visit to Old Town Creamery, there will most certainly be a second. While we may wait until the rest of the soft serve and frozen banana options materialize on the menu, the quality of the early ice cream flavors is better than we ever would have imagined, and we may need to stop back in just to try more of them before exploring whatever’s next.
Stats
Price: $
Service: Counter
Open Since: October 2026
Address
158 W. Main St.
Tustin, CA 92780
Instagram: @visitoldtowncreamery