Rakestraw's Ice Cream

313 S Market St, Mechanicsburg - 17055
309 reviews
Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Ice Cream Shop Ice Cream
(717) 691-5353

This place has great ice cream and very quick service. The ice cream is always good and they have a variety of ice cream options for everyone's liking

Very expensive price. Felt they tried to undercut the full priced cones. Wouldn't mind paying but I only got 1 1/2 scoops. Also long line and only one window one order at a time. Three people attempted to cut in line till I admonished them. The employee at the window has limited vision of the line and cannot interceed. I did and was immediately unpopular. I had a friend with cancer along for an ice cream treat who was having some pain stayed in the car and I needed to run air conditioner till served. The single window with a long line is not fun. Also no prices are listed in window. Only flavors.

Some of the best hard ice cream I've had in a long time!

Had to take out a loan just to pay for this ice cream… with interest rates on the rise, won’t be able to afford to go there much longer. Inside dining is still closed so when we asked where we could eat we were pointed to their parking lot wall to lean against. Not great if you wanted to just walk here in the summer with kids. BYO chair I guess? Dairy Queen / Urban Churn it is!

One of the wife’s and mine favorite ice cream shops in central pa. They have a great selection of flavors and generous sized scoops. If you dare to order 2 scoops you better be hungry. They have several options when ordering so take your time figuring out what you want and there won’t be any issues. They have regular flavors and for a little extra you can get the limited addition flavors. In the fall they usually have pumpkin it’s my absolute favorite flavor they carry. They also have the common suspects tea berry, Moose tracks, graham slam, mint chip, and ect. Every flavor I have tried has been great. If you enjoy ice cream give them a try.

Had an absolutely terrible, embarrassing experience. First, the menu/prices are not well displayed (probably where this entire awful experience started). My wife ordered a dish of ice cream and I order a waffle cone with ice cream. The total came out to just under $15. I asked the gentleman how it was that expensive because a waffle cone was $2.16. He informed me that that was the price of just the cone and that a waffle cone had 2 scoops. I told him that i only had $10 and then asked them for 1 scoop of ice cream along with my wife’s ice cream. In the meantime, I am trying to look and understand the menu with no luck. The price came out to be over $12. I told the gentleman again that I only have $10 and couldn’t understand how 2 small dishes of ice cream was over $12, so I asked and then found out that one of my dishes was limited edition. I told him that I just want 1 scoop of normal ice cream in a dish. Which he then did. As that was happening, I was again looking at the menu. The menu said 1 scoop dish was $4.72. With 2 dishes, I had enough with my $10 ($4.72 plus tax comes out to $10 exactly). He came back with the ice cream and told me the total was $11.83 or something like that. Which I responded to him for the third time “I only have $10”. His response to me was “Take the other dish, you’re done” and shut the window. I have never in my life been to a place where I was treated this way by a restaurant employee. I was obviously confused and not understanding the menu. I am definitely at fault for that. I thought I was ordering items that were under the amount of money that I had. Rather than helping me understand, I was made to feel like an idiot. I’ll never go back.

The wife liked what she got so I'm sure she will make me take her again in the future. ?

Went for the first time since I last lived in Mechanicsburg. Only window service when I was there (around May 15th). The ice cream was good, though.

Very good ice cream. The prices are a little steep, but they also have massive portions. The younger workers are also very good and appreciate a tip. The younger boy is extremely competent, speedy, and charismatic.

1st timer ?Black raspberry waffle cone.Ice cream & cone were very good however, I would have expected for the entire cone to be filled w/ice cream, instead there were just 2 scoops on top.Not worth it for the price.