Innovative Uptown shop known for dessert nachos, Italian ice to close: ‘Bittersweet goodbye’

Sum’n Sweet Frozen Treats, an Uptown New Orleans dessert shop that transformed the longtime former home of Neutral Ground Coffee House into a pastel-pink retreat for Italian ice, soft serve and extravagant sundaes, announced it will close next month in a lengthy Instagram post.

The shop will serve its final desserts Nov. 22 after three years of “much love, sacrifice, hard work and determination,” owner Trevail Thomas wrote, which garnered hundreds of likes and more than 100 comments from regulars praising the shop’s menu and family-friendly atmosphere.

“I won’t pretend that saying goodbye is easy,” Thomas wrote. “The truth is, my heart is broken. Letting go of something you’ve worked so hard to build is incredibly painful. But I’ve learned that sometimes making the right decision doesn’t mean it’s an easy one.”…

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