Tom's Ice Cream Bowl is a famous institution of Zanesville, Ohio that has been in operation since 1948. The ice cream shop is famous for its ice cream and chocolates and is also a cafe serving up food in a canteen-style layout and building that looks as though it belongs in the 1950s or 1960s with diner stools, subway-tile cream bricks and signage.
The speciality is, of course, ice cream. It is served out of soup bowls because ice cream dishes are too small, and you get a generous portion in the bowl. These can be topped with hot fudge, nuts, sauces, and even marshmallow, which I tried. The ice cream was delicious.
I've eaten at Tom's Ice Cream Bowl previously when I was much younger, but it's one of those places that I always thought was over-rated after living half of my life here.
I visited with a couple of my friends after enjoying some tacos at a new taco street food restaurant on Linden Avenue, which I also found very good. The ice cream finished the day off nicely. I really enjoyed catching up with my friends.
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