Kohr Family Frozen Custard

Custard in cones and cups

Frozen custard is the whole point here: dense, cold and handed over the counter in a cone or a cup, with milkshakes and smoothies filling out the rest of the board. The Madeira Beach shop belongs to the family-owned Kohr Brothers Frozen Custard, whose lineage runs back to Kohr's Frozen Custard, The Original, on the Seaside Heights boardwalk in New Jersey. That inheritance is why the counter reads more like a Jersey Shore custard stand than a Florida dessert café.

A quick stop on a beach dessert run

The format is casual and fast: order at the counter, take the custard, keep moving. There is no seated dining room to settle into and no long menu to work through, which suits a stop between the beach and dinner. In summer, when the traffic is heaviest, that speed is the point of the place.

Order the frozen custard first

Start with the frozen custard, because it is the item the shop is built on. Custard differs from ordinary ice cream in two ways, egg yolks in the base and a slightly warmer serving temperature, and together they give the denser, richer texture associated with the Kohr Brothers style. Cones and cups are the core formats. Milkshakes and smoothies broaden the order without changing what the place is, so the sensible route is custard first and a blended drink second.