‘It’s much creamier.’ French-style ice cream shop opens in Kansas City’s Brookside
French Custard ice cream has operated as a “preorder online and then pick up at a pop-up” since April 2021.
Now owners Jessica and Alex Wood now have their first retail shop.
They took a space in the recently remodeled Morningside Shops at 5905 Main St., in the Brookside neighborhood, and planned to open at 2 p.m. Wednesday. They live just blocks from their new shop.
They said French-style ice cream uses milk, cream, eggs and sugar, but no additives or stabilizers, so “it’s much creamier than regular ice cream, much more like a custard.”
The ice cream’s mix-ins are housemade. Flavors include toffee crunch and honeycomb (both with candy pieces), French vanilla, chocolate, mint chip, cookies and cream, churro-cinnamon (with pastry crumbles), pistachio, lemon curd (with lemon bars) and mocha mudslide.
One scoop costs $4.50 with additional scoops $3. Housemade waffle cones are $1.50, and cake cones 25 cents. Hand-packed pints cost $10.
It will rotate collaboration flavors. On opening day it was ready to serve Mac Attack (a Taiwanese cheese flavor blended with French Custard’s sweet cream ice cream) in collaboration with J. Chang Kitchen.
Walkers on the Harry Wiggins Trolley Track Trail in front of the center have already stopped by this month, hoping to get some ice cream. The owners may put up a sidewalk table or bench later.
Hours: 2 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays through Wednesdays, 2 to 10 p.m. Fridays, noon to 10 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 9 p.m. Sundays.
