Leopold's Ice Cream

Super-premium ice cream made in house, from recipes that go back to the Leopold brothers and 1919.

Homemade ice cream at the center

The signature is super-premium homemade ice cream, with a case that runs from classics to seasonal specialties. The history gives that more substance than a scoop-shop label: in the original business the Leopold brothers sold chocolates and food alongside ice cream, and made the batches themselves from their own recipes.

The line to follow when ordering is simple. Come for the ice cream, then decide between the classic side of the case and whatever the season has put next to it.

A Savannah counter with a line at the door

Leopold's opened in 1919, closed in 1969 and was revived in 2004, so the parlor carries both a heritage identity and a modern second chapter. It sits in Savannah's Historic District and is best understood as a signature local dessert stop rather than a cafe, a bar or a full-service restaurant.

The experience is a retail dessert shop with the scoop at the center of it, and it is one of the city's best-known dessert destinations, which means a high-demand counter rather than a quiet room. There is a shipping side as well, for anyone who wants the ice cream away from Savannah.

Order the homemade ice cream first

Treat Leopold's as a Savannah institution whose reputation rests on the ice cream itself: classic flavors, seasonal specialties, and a production story reaching back to the brothers' early recipes. For a first visit, order a scoop, notice the 1919 lineage behind the name, and let the Historic District setting be part of the stop.