Reviews for Handel's Homemade Ice Cream in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA

They have some ridiculous ?rules? - no samples. If you order 1 scoop they say it?s a minimum of 2.5 scoops. So if you want to... her 2 different flavors for the 2.5 scoops they say no, you have to order a bigger size to do that. The place has turned into ajoke w lackluster service. Too bad Read more

Lots of great flavors and good tasting ice cream. Always well staffed too so the waits aren't too long when they are busy

Classic style ice cream, creamy and not too sweet. Got the mud pie and midnight madness which is a combination of dark... chocolate and peanut butter. They also have gluten-free options. Read more

I love this ice cream it's really good it's really close to us it's homemade really cheap but still taste really good they have... a lot of options and different sizes bowls I can have a dipped sprinkled cone they have whipping cream ???? ???? workers werenice and welcoming the photo is A dipped cone chocolate and brownie dough with whipping cream for $6.25That's the first photothe the rest of the photos are just pictures of ice cream from Handel's of course Read more

Banana cream pie on chocolate dipped waffle cone: Holy wow this was realllllllly good. The banana ice cream is super light and... the marshmallow swirls weren't too sweet either. I wish the sugar cookie chunks were bigger bc it's hard to taste but from whati could taste it kind of tasted like circus animal cookies without the frosting? The choco waffle cone was super good too.Perfect waffle cone thickness and texture and the chocolate wasn't too sweet either. 5/5 Read more

My family and I stopped by as we had never been to Handel's and we LOVE ice cream. We saw a line and thought this must be... amazing! The staff was very attentive and friendly, but the ice cream left something to be desired. Especially for the price wepaid. One family member got the cheesecake with Oreo and disliked the taste (said it had a sour/bitter taste) so they ordered anadditional scoop of something else while they were scooping my pistachio. On the reselect they chose a black raspberry truffle(or something like that). They said it was better than the first, but still mediocre and too sweet. My pistachio was also VERYsweet. I basically ended up eating the bites with nuts because that balanced out the sugar and tossed the rest. Had high hopes,but overly sweet for our taste. Read more

We love having a Handel's close to us. My husband and I were going in for a little dessert. My husband went for his favorite... Black Cherry. I wanted to try something different. The young gentleman had to explain each flavor I asked about because ofCovid there are no samples. He was so nice and patient even though some new customers were coming in. I ended up taking TinLizzy and it was very yummy. I wish I had got his name, but wanted you to know that your employee did exceptionally. . We werethere at 5:30 pm today. Read more

So many flavors to choose from! The scoops are generous in size. We tried butter pecan, cotton candy, chocolate chip cookie... dough and pistachio. My favorite was the butter pecan but all were great. We came around 9 PM on a Saturday night and there wasstill a line. Read more