Eis Cafe = Ice Cream Store!!!

Do they have ice cream in Germany? Yes! And it isn’t just for little kids. Here old people enjoy a scoop just as much as anyone and you will find entire families of all ages standing around a group of bicycles enjoying a cold sweet treat before continuing their bicycle trip.

Most of the ice cream you find in shops here is made at the shop itself. A lot of it is Italian gelato – including the ice cream served from most ice cream trucks.

Flavors: You’ll get the usual… and the unique.
Spaghetti ice: Vanilla ice cream extruded onto the plate in thin spaghetti shaped streamers, then covered with strawberry sauce.
Strattiatela: Vanilla ice cream with flakes of dark chocolate.
Advocaat: Egg liqueur flavor.

‘Tis the season of fresh home made ice creams as far as the eye can see and at prices that we can all get quite fat on. Most places sell a small scoop of the yummy stuff for about .50. And it’s all delicious.

Ice cream is a summer treat here. Most of these places will only be open May – September.

Brunssum

Eisecafe Oberije
Lindenplein 12-13; Brunssum
Tel: 0031-45-52-72810
Open: Daily 1400-2200

Geilenkirchen

La Gondola Italienische Eis Kaffeespezialitaeten
Gerbergasse 11; Geilenkirchen

Cafe Schleypen
Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 126; Geilenkirchen
Tel. (0 24 51) 21 26

~Not solely an ice cream shop, this bakery/konditerei makes fresh delicious ice cream on the premises each day and sells it at the shop from May until September.

Kirchhoven (Heinsberg)

Carla’s Eislaedchen
Waldfeucher Strasse 164; Heinsberg – Kirchhoven
Tel: 02452-65024

~Ice cream, cakes, coffees on a nice Mediterranean terrace.

Sittard

Die Twee Ijs Salon
Market Square, Sittart
Tel: (0031) 046-4528083
Open for ice cream ALL YEAR!

~Get your ice cream fix 365 days a year here at this small cafe right in the market square in Sittard. An easy stop. A scoop costs .75.

Stahe

Cafe am Rodebach
Knuppstraße 9
Gangelt-Stahe
Tel. 02454/8623
Open all year – Ice Cream only served in the summer.

~ A tiny little cafe just at the edge of Stahe near Gillrath, the forest, and a ton of walking/biking trails, this place isn’t big enough for a huge party, but is a perfect quick stop during the ice cream season for a delicious scoop. A great place to reward yourself after a long walk in the woods.

Tuddern

Eis Paradies Penners
Millener Weg 25
Tuddern 52538
Tel: 05456-4646
Open 7 Days a week from May until September 2pm-9pm

~ This place is HUGE, so it works for large groups. They have seating indoors, on the patio, and outside. They have a playground for kids and horses nearby for them to look at. The portions are generous and the family that owns and runs it is very friendly. They also speak English well.

Waldfeucht

Waldfeuchter Garten Eiscafe
Meulenweid 37, Waldfeucht
Tel: 02455-522
Hours: Mon – Fri 1400-2000; Sat and Sun 1100-2000

Eiscafe am Markt Hubert Vogten
Brabanterstrasse 62, Waldfeucht
Tel: 02455-2164
~ice cream and cakes prepared fresh daily.

Eis Paradies Penners – Tuddern

Eis Paradies Penners

Millener Weg 25
Tuddern 52538
Tel: 05456-4646
Email: gerdpenners@t-online.de
Open 7 Days a week from May until September 2pm-9pm

Review: This is known by many here as one of the best ice cream places around. I’d have to agree. Not only is the home-made ice cream delicious and beautifully presented, but it is clean, relaxing, spacious, and perfect for couples, groups, and families with it’s a spacious outdoor seating area and large playground. For as little as .60 Euro a scoop, your kids can enjoy a treat before they play. You can then sit and relax with a beer, cappuccino, or other beverage and a large becher of ice cream. A becher? YUM. Get any flavor and you’ll enjoy a large glass filled with ice cream, fruits, nuts, sauces – you name it, they serve it. I enjoy the erdbeer (strawberry) becher or iced coffee the best. My husband loves the eier liquor becher. But… try what sounds good to you… they are all good and for just 4 Euros for the large dish of ice cream, you won’t have room for dinner. The bathrooms are clean and the women’s bathroom has a spacious changing counter.

Cafe Gaudi

Gaudi Brasserie Ijssalon
Markt 26
6131 EL Sittard
Tel: (0031) 046-4588994
Fax: (0031) 046-4588996

I enjoyed Gaudi enough to eat there two days in a row. Ijssalon means ice cream parlor, and they do have ice cream, but being right next to Die Twee (the best ice cream on the markt), I didn’t go there for the sweets.

Both days we ate indoors. The seating area inside is small, but I went with a group of 13 and, sitting all together at separate tables, it worked out well. There is a no-smoking section in the back that is nice as well and the bathrooms are clean.

The food is what we went back for and it will bring me there again. Don’t think the soups and salads are light fare… they are deceivingly filling. Delicious! Day one I had the large Bourgondische Salad. It was loaded with extras, but too big to even eat all the shrimp that came on top. The dressing was a little sweet for me, but good. Next time I’d order it on the side so I could use a little less of it. The next day I had a small Spekjes salad – bacon and hot goat cheese – good enough that five of us ordered the same thing on day too and the only sound at our table was subdued crunching and an occasional “mmmmm.” The tomato soup got rave reviews from my friend and I enjoyed my daughter’s onion soup (uiensoep) so much with it’s thick topping of french bread and cheese, that I ordered one of my own.

They do have a kids menu with quite a few options and the dessert menu, though I was too stuffed to take advantage of it, looks very good. Of the 13 of us that went there on day 2, 9 were kids, but the waiter was very nice, efficient, and not at all put off by the tidbits of food on the floor. I said something as we left about the children, and he said, “No problem. This is what we do. We have children here all the time.”

So, go to Gaudi? Definitely. The food is delicious and our waiter was wonderful.

Bring kids? Yes! This is one of the only places that I’ve eaten at on the markt with a separate children’s menu. They are prepared.

Prices? Reasonable for the generous amounts of food. There is no skimping on goodies. If you order a salad with bacon, expect to see LOTS of bacon.

Bourgondische Salad Groot (large) 12.50
This is the delicious salad with spicy prawns among other things. The dressing is very rich. I’d order it on the side.

Spekjes Salad Klein (small) 5.75 Spekjes Salad Large 10.50
This salad is loaded with bacon (good European bacon) and good hot cheese. It’s amazing. The small is enough to fill you up, I think, or to leave just a tiny bit of room for dessert. With a bowl of soup, I had to be rolled out of the place.

Tomatensoep 3.50
A nice sized bowl.

Uiensoep 4.50
With a large slice of French bread floating on top with melted cheese over it. Delicious. Will order again. This soup is HOT. Order on a cold wintry day.

Chilren’s Menu 4.25
Tweety = chicken nuggets with fries
Lady and the Vagebond = spaghetti with meatballs

Drink Menu:
Drinks ranged from 1.40 for milk to 1.90 for an iced tea with sodas and coffee drinks all falling in the middle.

Cafe am Rodebach – Stahe Cafe

Cafe am Rodebach
Knuppstraße 9
Gangelt-Stahe
Tel. 02454/8623

Cafe Rodebach in Stahe is a new-ish cafe and bakery in our area. It’s small and very casual inside, so if smoke bothers you, it’s best to get your food to go as one smoker could totally cloud the place, but the home-made ice cream and cakes are worth it. Go there for bread, great German cakes and fruit tortes, ice cream, and a nice breakfast.

They are open every day except Monday, so on Sunday, you can either stop by for breakfast, or grab a nice cake to go for your afternoon coffee or post-church social.