Cool Treats in Camarillo, Ventura and Oxnard: Ice Cream, Açaí, Smoothies & More

Hot day? Bored kids? Just craving something cold and delicious? Ice cream is always a classic, but there are plenty of other ways to cool down around Camarillo, Ventura and Oxnard.

From Brazilian açaí bowls and Italian-style gelato to Mexican paletas, mangonadas and raspados, and even Korean bingsu, this guide has a refreshing treat for nearly every craving.

Hours, menus and flavors can change, so check with each business before visiting.

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🍧 Cool Treats in Camarillo

Tifa Chocolate & Gelato

Tifa serves handcrafted gelato alongside artisan chocolates, pastries and coffee. With traditional favorites and rotating seasonal flavors, it is a great choice when everyone wants something a little different.

📍 620 N. Las Posas Road, Camarillo
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Helados Mexty

Explore Mexican-style frozen treats, including creamy and fruit-based paletas, ice cream, mangonadas and other sweet or spicy snacks. A mangonada typically combines mango, chamoy, lime and chile for a refreshing mix of sweet, tangy and spicy flavors.

📍 315 Arneill Road, Suite 108, Camarillo
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Wild Cherry Frozen Yogurt & Boba

Create your own frozen-yogurt combination with a wide variety of toppings, or order boba tea, a smoothie or shaved ice. The self-serve setup makes it especially fun for kids who like customizing their own desserts.

📍 2112 E. Ponderosa Drive, Camarillo
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Ubatuba Açaí

Build your own bowl using açaí, pitaya or another base, then add fruit, granola, nuts, cacao and other toppings. Açaí is a berry native to the Brazilian Amazon and is commonly served blended and topped with fruit and granola. Ubatuba also offers smoothies and Brazilian-style empanadas.

📍 660 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 400, Camarillo Premium Outlets
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Balance Protein & Energy Bar

Balance offers protein smoothies, superfood bowls, specialty drinks and colorful “turbo teas.” Its menu includes vegan and gluten-free options, but families should ask about caffeine and added supplements when ordering drinks for children.

📍 4962 Verdugo Way, Camarillo
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Blenders in the Grass

A longtime local option for fruit smoothies, fresh juices and smoothie bowls. The menu includes açaí and pitaya bowls, fruit-forward blends and protein-based smoothies.

📍 2508 Las Posas Road, Suite C, Camarillo
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Mister Softee

Step inside a retro-style ice cream parlor for classic soft-serve cones, sundaes, shakes, floats and banana boats. The Camarillo shop also offers Dole soft serve, Italian ice and select hard-scoop flavors.

📍 2100 E. Ventura Boulevard, Camarillo
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Rori’s Artisanal Creamery

Rori’s specializes in small-batch ice cream with rich textures and creative flavors. The Camarillo shop is located inside The Mark, giving families an easy dessert stop after a meal in Old Town.

📍 2024 Ventura Boulevard, Camarillo
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Baskin-Robbins

A familiar favorite for scoops, sundaes, milkshakes, seasonal flavors and custom ice cream cakes.

📍 738 Arneill Road, Camarillo
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🍨 Cool Treats in Ventura

McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams

This California ice cream company makes its ice cream from scratch using high-quality ingredients. The Ventura scoop shop offers classic favorites, seasonal creations, dairy-free options and house-made ice cream sandwiches.

📍 3241 E. Main Street, Ventura
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Coastal Cone & The Parlor

A Ventura Harbor favorite with more than 40 rotating ice cream flavors, soft serve, sundaes, shakes and malts. Kids may especially enjoy the taiyaki cones—fish-shaped waffle cones inspired by the traditional Japanese fish-shaped cake.

📍 1583 Spinnaker Drive, Suite 104, Ventura Harbor Village
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Crave Artisan Coffee Bar

Crave offers handcrafted gelato, gourmet ice cream, affogatos, organic coffee drinks and artisan food. An affogato is an Italian dessert that combines a scoop of gelato or ice cream with a shot of espresso.

📍 947 Schooner Drive, Suite 105, Ventura
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La Michoacana Azteca Ventura

This colorful Mexican dessert shop serves paletas, ice cream, mangonadas, aguas frescas, fruit cups, fresas con crema and savory snacks such as esquites and tostilocos.

📍 500 N. Ventura Avenue, Suite B, Ventura
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bb Açaí & Juice Store

This Brazilian-inspired shop offers customizable açaí bowls, fruit smoothies, juices, empanadas and pão de queijo, a Brazilian cheese bread. Its bowls use organic açaí sourced from the Brazilian Amazon.

📍 5100 Telegraph Road, Suite D, Ventura
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Pincha Boba

A cozy local boba shop serving milk teas, fruit teas, matcha drinks and customizable beverages with tapioca pearls and other toppings.

📍 4726 Telephone Road, Suite 1B, Ventura
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Surf ’N Yogurt

This casual Seaward Avenue shop offers frozen yogurt with a variety of flavors and toppings. Its location makes it an easy stop before or after a visit to the beach.

📍 1038 S. Seaward Avenue, Ventura
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Wildberry Frozen Yogurt & Boba

Located inside Pacific View Mall, Wildberry serves frozen yogurt, toppings, flavored teas and boba. It is an easy air-conditioned treat stop when the weather is especially hot.

📍 3301 E. Main Street, Suite 1530, Ventura
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Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt

Choose your frozen-yogurt flavors and add toppings ranging from fresh fruit to candy and sauces. Menchie’s also offers froyo cakes and rotating non-dairy options.

📍 5944 Telegraph Road, Ventura
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Mister Softee

The East Ventura storefront serves classic soft-serve cones, shakes, sundaes and floats, along with Dole soft serve, Italian ice and other treats.

📍 7770 Telegraph Road, Ventura
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Rori’s Artisanal Creamery

Stop by the Downtown Ventura scoop shop for small-batch ice cream, seasonal flavors and ice cream sandwiches.

📍 286 E. Main Street, Ventura
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Cold Stone Creamery

Choose an ice cream flavor and have it mixed with candy, cookies, fruit or sauces on a frozen granite slab. The shop also offers shakes, sundaes, ice cream sandwiches and custom cakes.

📍 2950 Johnson Drive, Suite 115, Ventura
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Fosters Freeze

A nostalgic California fast-food stop serving soft-serve cones, dipped cones, milkshakes, sundaes and root beer floats alongside burgers and fries.

📍 4121 Telegraph Road, Ventura
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🍦 Cool Treats in Oxnard

Michoacanita Ice Cream Company

This locally owned shop makes ice cream, paletas and aguas frescas in-house. The menu also includes mangonadas, fruit bowls, bubble-waffle cones, aguas frescas, tostilocos and other colorful Mexican-inspired treats.

📍 2550 E. Vineyard Avenue, Unit 130, Oxnard
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GOM Snow Desserts

Experience Korean bingsu—finely shaved ice with a light, fluffy texture—topped with fruit and playful additions. GOM also offers soft serve, parfaits and taiyaki, the popular fish-shaped Japanese pastry.

📍 2752 Seaglass Way, The Collection at RiverPark
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Xielo Artisan Desserts

Xielo celebrates Mexican culinary traditions with raspados, artisan pastries, fresh crepes and family recipes passed down through generations. Raspados are Mexican shaved-ice treats flavored with fruit syrups and sometimes topped with fresh fruit, chile or condensed milk.

📍 212 W. Fourth Street, Downtown Oxnard
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Rico Tejuino Los Reyes

Try nieve de garrafa, raspados, mangonadas and the shop’s signature tejuino. Tejuino is a traditional Mexican fermented corn drink commonly served cold with lime, salt and a scoop of lime sorbet or ice cream.

📍 1353 W. Channel Islands Boulevard, Oxnard
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Frutti Hielo

Frutti Hielo offers Mexican antojitos and refreshing treats, including raspados, chamoyadas, fresh fruit, tostilocos and churro-based creations. It is also connected with Asadero Mexicali, so families can pair their cold treats with tacos or another meal.

📍 1720 Saviers Road, Oxnard
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La Michoacana Azteca

Choose from dairy- or water-based paletas, ice cream, mangonadas, aguas frescas, biónicos, fresas con crema and other Mexican snacks. A biónico is a fresh-fruit bowl traditionally topped with a sweet cream mixture, granola, coconut or nuts.

📍 2045 N. Oxnard Boulevard, Oxnard
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The Blend Superfood Bar

The Blend makes açaí and pitaya bowls, smoothies and fresh juices using natural, nutrient-rich ingredients. Its recipes do not use dairy, sorbet or artificial sweeteners, making it a helpful option for families looking for a fruit-based treat.

📍 550 Collection Boulevard, Suite 145, Oxnard
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It’s Boba Time

With more than 140 drink combinations, this shop offers milk teas, fruit teas, smoothies, slushes, juices, shaved ice and coffee drinks. Most drinks can be customized with boba, jellies, popping pearls and other toppings.

📍 2756 Seaglass Way, The Collection at RiverPark
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Yaki101

Although primarily a teriyaki takeout shop, Yaki101 also serves milk teas, traditional teas, smoothies and slushes with classic tapioca or popping boba.

📍 2550 E. Vineyard Avenue, Suite 160, Oxnard
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Honey Cup Coffeehouse & Creamery

Pair coffee, smoothies or breakfast with house-made ice cream. Honey Cup has two Oxnard locations: one near Channel Islands Harbor and another in the Wagon Wheel development.

📍 3500 Harbor Boulevard, Suite 1-105, Oxnard
📍 2601 Wagon Wheel Road, Suite 50, Oxnard
🌐 Visit Honey Cup

Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream

Handel’s makes its ice cream in small batches at the shop, with a large menu of classic, seasonal and candy-filled flavors. Flavors rotate, so there is usually something new to try.

📍 751 Town Center Drive, Suite 101, Oxnard
🌐 Visit Handel’s Oxnard

Afters Ice Cream

Known for imaginative flavors and its signature Milky Bun—a glazed bun filled with ice cream—Afters combines ice cream with fun dessert mashups.

📍 544 Collection Boulevard, Oxnard
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Buttercups Cool Treats

Create your own frozen-yogurt combination with rotating flavors and a large selection of toppings. Buttercups also offers nostalgic candy, retro sodas and frozen-yogurt pies.

📍 1121 S. Victoria Avenue, Oxnard
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Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt

This self-serve shop offers frozen yogurt, rotating flavors, fruit, candy, sauces and other toppings. Non-dairy options may be available, but selection changes.

📍 667 Town Center Drive, Oxnard
🌐 Visit Menchie’s at The Collection

Cold Stone Creamery

Mix your chosen ice cream with candy, fruit, cookies or sauces on a frozen granite slab. Cakes, shakes, sundaes and ice cream sandwiches are also available.

📍 261 W. Fifth Street, Oxnard
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Baskin-Robbins

For familiar ice cream flavors, shakes, sundaes and celebration cakes, Baskin-Robbins currently has three Oxnard locations.

📍 1941 N. Rose Avenue
📍 501 S. Ventura Road
📍 3520 S. Saviers Road
🌐 Find an Oxnard Baskin-Robbins

Make It a Cool-Treat Adventure!

Not sure what to try first? Let the kids choose a different kind of treat each time. Perhaps Italian gelato one week, a Brazilian açaí bowl the next, followed by Mexican paletas or Korean bingsu.

Please remember that menus, flavors and business hours can change. Check the business’s website or social media page before heading out, especially on holidays.

Business information was reviewed and updated in August 2026.

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