ted & wally's ice cream shop

not so special. okay...the building is pretty cool and being set in the oldmarketis awesome but the few times my wife and i have stopped in the service was terrible and the ice cream it's self while having varied flavors is nothing out of the ordinary...it's ice cream..i have made tastier with my old hand crank ice cream maker...ben & jerry's is still better than ted & wally's.

some of the best!. so many childhood memories, here. ahh. nothing like walking around the oldmarketwhen it's 100 degrees and humid as hell outside. thank goodness for ted & wally's.

yum. i like ted & wally's. the ice cream is good, but it is a good idea to get a sample before you commit to anything. some flavors are really awesome and some, not so much. just try it before you buy it! the coffee is good as well. as others have mentioned, the seating is extremely sparse and it is oldmarketpricey. but, you do get quite a bit of ice cream packed into your waffle cone. i've not had any problems with the staff being rude but like many other places, it is a good idea to go when it is less busy.

meh.. can we please take ted & wally's off of the pedestal that omahans have put it on?! it's okay. just okay. just because they make the ice cream themselves and it is located in the oldmarketdoes not automatically make it great.

flavors are imaginative, but then, they have to be when you're paying for two scoops what an entire half gallon of premium ice cream would cost you at the grocery store.

parking is awful.

lines can be long and employees bark at customers when the lines are long. it seems their solution to long lines is to treat their customers like idiots and publicly berate them. if they don't have the patience for a endless line of distracted customers, then they should probably find another line of work.

seating is scant.

mostly it's just average. some flavors are good, some are okay, and some are bad. is it worth the oldmarketparking and crowds and the elevated cost? i think not.

what are they thinking?. ted & wally's is one of those places that has gotten a great reputation by really having little competition in it's niche: locally-made ice cream. i must admit that i'm a little biased going into this writing as the owner's pulled out of a second location (pulling their trademark, too) from the ice cream store in dundee which formerly carried the ted & wally's name because it wasn't as profitable as they would like. these aren't the kind of local heroes anyone should admire, yet here we are. it's really not hard to make a decent cup of ice cream and ted & wally's *can* make ice cream, but they do it in a retro building in the oldmarketand even have dedicated parking which is cool and refreshing, respectively. but, i'm afraid, as happens far too often, the place is just another downtown, hipster-operated dump which feels shamefully sidelined by an owner who probably has other profitable endeavors to attend to. i'm glad ted & wally's exists. we need local restaurateurs, but with the clean, franchisable maggie moo's across the street, ted & wally's should probably step up their hiring and clean their restrooms. being in the oldmarketis no longer an excuse for being rundown and dirty. note: this review was reposted because of wierd levels of kudos. additionally, despite what the well-written pr response says, the general consensus (likely not by accident) is not the story given in reply.

fan for life. ted & wally's will always be my oldmarketice cream place. despite the maggie moo's chain across the street, i will always go to ted and wally's. the customer service is fantastic, even in the middle of the summer when the line is out the door, there are so many options, and the staff is phenominal. if you've never been, it's recommended!!

the cherry on top of my oldmarketevening. my husband and daughter and i like to stroll down to ted n wally's after having dinner in the old market. i've always found their place to be clean and neat with competent, service-oriented employees. the atmosphere alone is worth it and i wouldn't ever set foot in maggie moo's. there are maggie moo's places all over the country, but there is only one ted n wally's and only one place with the inventive flavors they have. i love knowing that the ice cream i'm getting is fresh, made on-premises, and is unique. :) i've always had great experiences there and love that place. :)

located in the historic oldmarketdistrict of omaha, this is one of a few distinct exceptions to the customary red brick design so prevalent in this area. it looks like a dive especially when considering the juxtaposition of this building with the others, but it really offers some good ice cream. the inside is decorated with old ice cream making equipment, an old soda machine, and several paintings on the walls. the menu is written with a dry erase marker on a white board and items are erased once

great. strolling through oldmarketcouldn't help but to stop and wow, it was fantastic. love the place and the ice cream. definately 5 out of 5 and will go to omaha more often just for that.

omaha tradition. when walking around the oldmarketon a summer night you have to partake in an omaha tradition; go get ice cream at ted and wally's. this place has been around for a while and for good reason. i love their key lime pie flavor! yum! their ice cream is a great treat!

an oldmarketoriginal!. ted and wally's is great. they have interesting ice cream flavors (grand marnier or guinness, anyone?) and it's all homemade right there in the shop. maggie moo's opened up across the street to capitalize off people who couldn't be bothered to wait in line to get ted & wally's. (go after 7 pm on a summer night and there will be a line, but it's worth the wait!)

any kind of cake batter flavor i've ever had here has been amazing, and if you're lucky, you'll stop in on a night when they have guinness flavored ice cream, which is my absolute favorite.

the atmosphere is neat as well--the store is decorated with posters of local bands and concerts; sometimes they even have shows in the ice cream shop! if you're in omaha and have never been, it's worth a try.