Eddie's Sweet Shop

Category: Restaurants, Cafes, Bars

Ice Cream/Soda Fountain

NEW YORK MAGAZINE Blurb:
If your taste runs more Norman Rockwell than Elvis, try Eddie's Sweet Shop in Queens, a century-old soda fountain that offers up huge, fresh homemade-ice-cream sundaes, malteds, shakes, and egg creams. This snug corner shop on bustling Metropolitan Avenue is a step back in time. Sit at the counter, with its revolving stools, or at a roomy booth that allows for belly expansion. Tchotchkes for sale abound, and kibitzing with other patrons is commonplace.

*****

VILLAGE VOICE Reviews:

Best Pretty Ice Cream Parlor-
EDDIE'S SWEET SHOP:
The homemade ice cream is old-fashioned tasting, and the soda fountain drinks of the remote past are all available. There's no denying the antiquarian appeal of EDDIE'S SWEET SHOP, founded in 1909 and showing every year of its age, from the uncomfortable wooden stools to the marble counter to the soda jets to the refrigerator that looks like it once required ice. -Robert Sietsema

Best Hot-Fudge Sundae-
EDDIE'S SWEET SHOP:
The cast-iron stools are uncomfortable, the premises dark and musty, and the glass cases crammed with Beanie Babies, but none of these should discourage you from seeking out the wonderful EDDIE'S SWEET SHOP, a Forest Hills old-timer that makes its own ice cream and offers the best hot-fudge sundae in the city. Bring the kids. -Robert Sietsema

*****

NEW YORK POST blurb:
Eddie's makes its own whipped cream, and when it's covering a mound of chocolate ice cream and drenched in thick butterscotch or fudge, your taste buds can get religion.