I recently moved to Irvine and a friend highly recommended Strickland's. I value his opinion, so I'm presuming my experience was something of an outlier. Otherwise, my introduction to Strickland's was more like a two. The ice cream itself was very good and served with a smile, but I ordered a hot fudge brownie sundae which was stingy on fudge and had a stale brownie. It's not like I caught them at closing time, either. It was 5 pm on a Saturday. I don't care how silky-smooth your ice cream is (and it is--I will give them that), it didn't mask the staleness underneath. Yuck.
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