BUFFALO — Lake Effect Ice Cream, long a staple at Western New York festivals and a popular Lockport destination will soon be a lot more readily available for Queen City residents.
The company announced that it will be taking over 1900 Hertel Ave. — the old Vasilis Express location — and converting it into their second shop with hopes for a Memorial Day opening.
A Facebook post by Lake Effect — awarded in August as “WNY’s Best Ice Cream Parlor,” said that “By far, Hertel is the most requested place for us to have a second scoop shop so we couldn’t pass up this location. It is a perfect spot for a classic neighborhood ice cream shop in the heart of North Buffalo. Even more awesome, it has 18 of its own parking spaces. That is a remarkable thing to have on Hertel Avenue.”
The new shop will “not be just a smaller version of our original shop in Lockport. It will have all of our ice cream flavors, ice cream cakes, cannolis, cookie ice cream sandwiches and everything else that our shop in Lockport has,” the Facebook post says.
