Xanadu Coffee & Creamery

Waffle cones are made fresh and the ice cream is churned in house, which is the part of this counter worth planning around. Xanadu works as a coffee-and-creamery inside a West Baden Springs resort, pairing Starbucks coffee with a sweets case that does the heavy lifting.

Coffee at one end, a creamery at the other

The coffee side is straightforward: Starbucks, poured for guests moving through the building. The creamery side is where the shop earns its name, with cones made fresh, house-made ice cream and truffles in the case. The format is counter service throughout, closer to a resort shop than to a café with a long ritual at the bar.

Baked goods matter here too, not as a footnote but as one of the smells the place leads with. Taken together, the sweet side is the clearer identity: cones, ice cream, truffles and fresh baking, with coffee as the reliable companion rather than the whole reason to stop. Cones are pressed to order, which is the detail that separates this from a freezer of pre-packed tubs.

A resort counter that works across the day

The room behaves like a casual stop rather than a destination in itself, and it is busiest with people already in the building. They come through for coffee and something baked early on, and for ice cream and truffles later, depending on what the day has done to them.

Service stays easy throughout: order at the counter, look through the case, and decide whether the cup or the cone is leading. The pleasure is not in a complicated programme. It is in having coffee, sweets and a proper creamery counter in the same stop, in a building where the alternative is a sit-down meal. Nothing about it needs planning beyond deciding which half of the counter you came for.

Take the cone first

Start with a freshly made waffle cone and house-made ice cream. That is the order that uses the counter best, because it takes the creamery half of the name seriously instead of treating the place as another coffee stop.

If coffee is the reason for the visit, keep it simple and let the sweets case do the rest. Truffles are the natural pick between meals, and a coffee with something freshly baked is the most direct version of the whole idea.