Johnson’s Real Ice Cream

Family-owned and serving Central Ohio since 1950, Johnson’s Real Ice Cream has been bringing generations together over ice cream made with premium ingredients. With 10 neighborhood locations, we’re proud to be a longtime Columbus tradition built on quality, community, and the simple joy of sharing a scoop.

Real ice cream. Real memories.

Located at 869 N 4th St, Columbus, OH 43201, Johnson’s Real Ice Cream operates as an ice cream shop serving Columbus in Ohio. This page gathers the practical details people usually look for before visiting: where it is, how to reach it, when it opens and how customers rate it. Besides its main category, the business also describes itself as dessert shop, so it may cover more than the name suggests.

American bakeries range from wholesale operations that supply restaurants to neighborhood shops that sell bread, pastries, cookies and cakes over the counter, and many of them also pour coffee. Bagel shops boil and bake on site and sell out of favorite flavors by late morning; donut shops open before dawn and are often family-run; patisseries and cake studios take custom orders for weddings and birthdays and usually need one to two weeks' notice. Ice cream parlors, gelato shops and frozen yogurt bars are seasonal in the northern states and year-round in the South and on the West Coast. Prices are posted per item, by the dozen or by the pound, and most shops now take cards and mobile payment.

Hours are published for 1 day a week. On most of those days it is open 2–11 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 (614) 556-4089. Many businesses also reply to text messages on the same number if it is a cell phone. More information is available on its website, johnsonsrealicecream.com.

On Google it holds a rating of 4.6 out of 5 from 81 reviews, which is a strong result for an ice cream shop in Columbus and suggests consistent service.

Columbus is in Ohio, in the Midwest, where summers are warm, winters are cold and snowy, and most errands are done by car; businesses keep steady year-round hours with the usual holiday changes. Getting around Columbus 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 Ohio's larger cities, and public transit varies from extensive to minimal.

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