The Hop Ice Cream Cafe

The Hop proudly serves Asheville, NC with an imaginative and locally-influenced array of handcrafted dairy ice cream & completely from-scratch vegan ice cream & sorbet in cups, cones, milkshakes, and sundaes. Also Check out The Hop in West Asheville (721 Haywood Rd), downtown Asheville (inside S&W Market), and Black Mountain (114 Cherry St). We also offer fulfillment for orders placed in our Online Store at The Creamery (167 Haywood Rd). Unchained and Independent

The Hop Ice Cream Cafe is one of the ice cream & gelato listed in Asheville, North Carolina. The business is registered at 640 Merrimon Ave #103, Asheville, NC 28804; use this page to check its hours, phone number and Google rating before you make the trip.

In Asheville, the best-known bakeries and bagel shops have lines on weekend mornings, so arrive early or order ahead where the shop offers it. Across North Carolina, immigrant bakeries add Mexican pan dulce, Vietnamese banh mi bread, Chinese buns, Middle Eastern sweets and European rye to the mix, and many gluten-free and vegan bakeries have opened in larger cities. Check the listing for hours, whether the shop accepts custom cake orders and its Google rating before you go, and call about allergens, since small kitchens often share equipment. Day-old bread and end-of-day discounts are common if you ask.

Hours are published for 7 days a week. Typical hours are 12–10 pm. Hours in the United States do change around federal holidays and long weekends, so a quick call before a special trip is sensible. The listed phone number is (828) 254-2224. Many businesses also reply to text messages on the same number if it is a cell phone. More information is available on its website, hopicecreamnc.com.

Customers rate it 4.6 out of 5 on Google across 895 reviews, placing it among the better-regarded ice cream & gelato in Asheville.

Asheville is in North Carolina, in the Southeast, where summers are long, hot and humid, winters are mild, and afternoon thunderstorms and the hurricane season from June to November can change plans at short notice. Getting around Asheville is easiest by car; street parking is metered in busy downtown areas, and most suburban businesses have their own lot. Ride-share apps such as Uber and Lyft operate across North Carolina's larger cities, and public transit varies from extensive to minimal.

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