Black Cat Ice Cream Valley Junction

I got Cream cheese lemon cake flavored and white chocolate padsion fruit flavored. This is the place was on my to try list. I'm so glad I got to try it today! They're delicious 😋

Best ice cream In town. Efficient order process. Needs larger flavor selection.. pricey

This location can be so hit or miss that it's hard to know if I want to make the effort to go or not.

The ice cream is always phenomenal, though expensive for the volume you receive. If pints were $9/single scoop cones were 50 cents cheaper, I think you would have me sold.

The the wait time can be 35 minutes or nothing, depending on the day. I thought they might have more help since reducing to one location in the middle of summer. It would be better if they had some kind of surge time tracker so you know how long you might be waiting after looking for a parking space in the area.

If wait time, busy awareness, or value improves I'll definitely adjust my score for some great experimental ice cream.

Im sorry I cant give this place a positive review. I showed up at 6:30 pm. All the flavors that i wanted to try (there were about 5 of them) were sold out. It would have been nice if they had updated the website or the social media posts with the new flavors. Waited in line for about 20 minutes and they wouldnt even give me a sample to try. They said they cant because it was too busy. I would say they could have limit it to at least 2 samples. All in all i drove 25 minues one way, waited in line another 20 minutes, just to spend $7.00 on ice cream that ended up in the trash.

Best ice cream in Des Moines! 🤤🍦
I visited on Saturday (7/26), and even though the line was very long, the staff member who served me was amazing! She didn’t rush through orders. She carefully prepared each ice cream and greeted everyone with a warm smile. Truly outstanding service! Also, I loved her dyed band-colored hair☺️

This was probably the best place I've ever eaten ice cream. Clearly others feel the same as the line was out the door! Despite it being busy, we moved through the line fairly quickly. It was delicious. Lots of flavors available as well as different cones vs bowl options. Can't recommend this place enough!!

Great service and always interesting service.

The line was long. Service was slow and the poor girl at the front looked like she was about to pass out from heat exhaustion. It was HOT inside. It was really a no frills place. Ice cream was ok. Not bad, nothing to write home about.

Amazing flavors of ice cream! We had bubble gum and bomb pop and they were delicious.

Staff is super nice and helpful and the ice cream nuggets are to die for!!! I will definitely be back!

We have been to both locations and it's worth the wait!
We also love the decor and the friendly staff. You can't go wrong with their chocolate ice cream!

Loved the choices they had. The oce cream was very good and looking at all the pictures of cats was fun.

We stopped in on a 93 degree Saturday afternoon, the line was out the door and only 1 young woman working. She was efficient and very pleasant. Not only is the ice cream amazing but so is the customer service.
Whomever came up with the curry coconut granola deserves a metal!

Excellent ice cream

Still had the killer bee. Line moved fast. Great ice cream.