Magic City Sweet Ice
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Magic City Sweet Ice is located at 715 Oak Grove Road in Homewood. The restaurant specializes in Italian ice and gelato. In addition, they also have sorbettos, frozen custards, hand-crafted sodas, house-baked pastries, as well as hot or iced coffee drink from a full-service espresso bar. It was opened in June 2014 by David and Wani Shaw.
In 2019, 24/7 Tempo put together a list of the best ice cream parlors in the United States, according to Yelp reviews, and Magic City Sweet Ice was named tops in Alabama for independent ice cream parlors. Later that year the Shaws put the business up for sale to pursue their careers in other fields.
References
- Paepcke, Jon (June 3, 2015) "Customers rally around Magic City Sweet Ice owners after racist letter" WVTM-13
- Rebman, Stephanie (August 2, 2019) "Homewood ice cream parlor ranked as tops in Alabama" Birmingham Business Journal
- Van der Bijl, Hanno (November 19, 2019) "Owners look to sell popular Homewood ice cream shop." Birmingham Business Journal