A list recently released by Yelp let the rest of the country in on a secret that everyone in Fernley
has known for years – Steve’s Homemade Ice Cream is the best ice cream shop in Nevada.
With National Ice Cream Day coming up on July 20, Steve’s Homemade Ice Cream ranked No.
75 on the list of the 100 best ice cream shops in the United States released last week by Yelp. It
was the only ice cream shop in Nevada to make the list. Yelp said the list was ranked using
factors including the total volume and ratings of reviews.
“I have good Yelp reviews, so that probably has something to do with it,” said owner Steve
Cordes. “But yeah, it was a great feeling and a great surprise.”
Cordes said he found out about the recognition when a customer showed him the list last week,
and he later read a story about it in the Reno Gazette-Journal.
“Somebody from Yelp did call me out of the blue but they didn’t really say too much about that,”
Cordes said. “And I was too busy, I didn’t have time.”
This isn’t the first time that Steve’s Homemade Ice Cream, which opened in May 2008, has been
recognized as the best ice cream shop in Nevada. Several years ago the shop was ranked No. 1 in
Nevada on a list published by MSN. After that, Cordes put up a billboard on westbound
Interstate 80 about two miles east of Exit 48.
“It says ‘Voted Best’ so obviously I can keep that up there,” he said. “That’s helped a lot too,
drawing people in off I-80.”
Cordes worked for an ice cream shop in Staten Island, NY for almost 20 years before moving to
Fernley. His parents retired to Fernley I 2005, and he joined them a year later.
“I wanted to open my own place, but I didn’t want to do it in New York,” Cordes said.
He originally planned to open a shop in Reno, but after his mother suggested he open in Fernley
instead, he began to look for locations.
“I just happened to luck out and fall into this location as they were building this building,” he
said. “It’s great because you got the interstate, everybody who goes to Fallon has to drive right
by here. “Getting out of New York, moving here was by far and away the best move I ever made in my
life,” Cordes added. I cannot be happier, and Fernley has been amazing. And not just Fernley,
they come from all over..” Steve’s is located at 1360 U.S. Hwy 95A
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