The Hop West

The Hop proudly serves Asheville, NC with an imaginative and locally-influenced array of handcrafted dairy ice cream & completely from-scratch vegan ice cream & sorbet in cups, cones, milkshakes, and sundaes.

Also Check out The Hop in North Asheville (640 Merrimon Ave), downtown Asheville (inside S&W Market), and Black Mountain (114 Cherry St). We also offer fulfillment for ice cream cake and custom orders placed in our Online Store at The Creamery (167 Haywood Rd). Unchained and Independent!

The Hop West is an ice cream shop in Asheville, North Carolina. It is listed at 721 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806, which places it among the local businesses of Asheville that residents and visitors turn to when they need this kind of service close by.

In Asheville, the best-known bakeries and bagel shops have lines on weekend mornings, so arrive early or order ahead where the shop offers it. Across North Carolina, immigrant bakeries add Mexican pan dulce, Vietnamese banh mi bread, Chinese buns, Middle Eastern sweets and European rye to the mix, and many gluten-free and vegan bakeries have opened in larger cities. Check the listing for hours, whether the shop accepts custom cake orders and its Google rating before you go, and call about allergens, since small kitchens often share equipment. Day-old bread and end-of-day discounts are common if you ask.

Hours are published for 7 days a week. The most common schedule is 12–10 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 (828) 252-5155. Many businesses also reply to text messages on the same number if it is a cell phone. More information is available on its website, hopicecreamnc.com.

On Google it holds a rating of 4.7 out of 5 from 667 reviews, which is a strong result for an ice cream shop in Asheville and suggests consistent service.

Asheville is in North Carolina, in the Southeast, where summers are long, hot and humid, winters are mild, and afternoon thunderstorms and the hurricane season from June to November can change plans at short notice. Getting around Asheville 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 North Carolina's larger cities, and public transit varies from extensive to minimal.

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