Handcrafted, love-filled ice cream comes to Mount Pleasant.
Jake's Ice Cream of the Low Country is the next chapter in a legacy of making people smile, one scoop at a time. We're a family-and-friend-owned business, bringing the same passion for genuine, small-batch ice cream that began in Atlanta to our community here in South Carolina. Our mobile scoop shop, the charming Maisie, is already a local favorite, but we're thrilled to be planting permanent roots.
We are proud to partner with The Cooking Schools, Our Village Kitchens, and the soon-to-launch Village Provisions, and will soon be opening our first brick-and-mortar ice cream parlor at 2353 N HWY 17 in Mount Pleasant. Many of you have already seen Maisie parked there, serving up evening treats—and we welcome everyone to come visit us as we build our new home!
Community is at the heart of everything we do. As part of our commitment to the Lowcountry, we will be supporting the non-profit, Hunger and Hope, to help make a positive impact in local underserved communities. We believe in the power of ice cream to bring people together, and we can't wait to share a scoop with you.
Led by President Ryan Kinowski and COO Courtney Kinowski, Jake's Ice Cream - SC continues the journey started by founder Jake Rothschild. With a focus on clean ingredients, creative flavors, and community connection, we're excited to build the next chapter of the Jake's story right here in Mount Pleasant.
No visit is complete without saying hello to Emyline, our sweet and amazing friend!
You can find her out front of our home at 2353 N HWY 17, when we are scooping, riding her surfboard and ready to greet every customer. She's the official welcome wagon for The Cooking Schools, Our Village Kitchens, and the soon-to-be Village Provisions.
Jake’s was founded by three plucky folks in 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia. Each believed that Atlanta…and the world…needed a better choice for ice cream and after a lot of work, a lot of trial and error, and even a blazing fire…Jake’s was born. Located at 676 Highland Avenue in the Old Fourth Ward, the Jake’s flagship store was created in a dilapidated turn-of-the-century storefront, across from three crack houses, a scrap metal yard and a body shop.
We faced a roofless building with no windows, no plumbing, no wiring, no parking lot…more than just a fixer-upper. Never afraid of a good challenge, founder Jake Rothschild had his reasons. All he had to do was turn to his right and look at the beautiful Atlanta skyline and to the left and see one of Atlanta’s most beautiful neighborhoods (Inman Park) and he knew he was planting Jake’s in the right spot.
“We were deliberate in our choice of a location for our first shop,” responds Rothschild. “We wanted to put Jake’s in a place that was not only affordable, but that needed us with the hope we could help transform the community.” And that is exactly what happened. Old 4th Ward is now one of the hottest communities in Metro Atlanta and Jake’s had a part in this. “We pioneered…took a chance on a struggling neighborhood and invested our hearts and yes, our funds, into a place that needed us,” said Rothschild.
Jake tells us that he is often asked what made him to decide to go into the ice cream business. His response? “Borderline insanity.” He goes on to explain, “I was fascinated with the idea of making people smile for a living and I thought ice cream would help me do that... in the long run it was a good, right decision because the ice cream has made many people smile and no matter how hard the journey has been…no matter how ‘rocky the road’, it has been worth it.”