Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard

Rita's water ice was my very first job at age 14. I had to get working papers at Northeast High School in Philadelphia to work there. Rita's didn't come to the west coast until recently. As a...

Soooo excited to find a piece of my youth on the West Coast. But sadly, I walked in, and took a whiff. No, not the molasses notes of freshly batched caramel (not even sure they make that). Nope,...

This is one of my favorite places! Where I grew up on the east coast, delicious frozen custard and Italian ice is everywhere. It needs to be more popular over here I was in Dana point for...

I used to go to Rita's in NY all of the time and it was always amazing. Here, not so much. I'm used to a menu of like 50 flavors, here, you get about 6. I got the vanilla ice and black cherry....

If you're from back east and live in SoCal now, or you're visiting, this will be a great way to cool off. Rita's' are hard to find ... or have been, for a while. It's mainly a PA and NJ thing but...