Handel's Homemade Ice Cream SDSU in College Area, San Diego opened in May 2024 at 5824 Montezuma Road, bringing a 1,615-square-foot scoop shop with a walk-up service window to the south edge of the SDSU campus in the 92115 ZIP. The brand traces to 1945, when Alice Handel began churning ice cream with backyard fruit at her husband's gas station in Youngstown, Ohio — a woman-founded operation that has since expanded past 175 franchise locations across 20 states. Every batch is made fresh on-site using many of Alice's original from-scratch methods, and the late-night campus dining corridor along Montezuma and College Avenue funnels post-class and post-game traffic into a dessert walk that includes the pizza crowd at Woodstock's Pizza SDSU on El Cajon Blvd. Signature flavors at the SDSU location include Black Cherry, Graham Central Station, Salty Caramel Truffle, and Coffee Chocolate Chip, with local and seasonal additions rotating through a case that carries over 140 options across the national menu. National Geographic named Handel's the number-one ice cream on the planet, and the Travel Channel listed it among the best ice cream parlors in the country — credentials that put the Montezuma Road shop in the upper tier of San Diego's dessert competition. Hurricane blenders mix ice cream with candy, cookie, and fruit mix-ins on a chilled stone, and sundae packs bundle multiple servings for dorm-room and apartment gatherings. Pint and quart containers are available for takeout, and the catering program scales party orders for campus organizations and Greek-life events. The sit-down dinner traffic at Eureka! on El Cajon Boulevard feeds a dessert-walk crowd that crosses into the Montezuma corridor for a post-meal scoop. The Frosted Animal Cookie flavor launched as one of the brand's newest national additions, and each store's production kitchen adjusts batch schedules to match local demand — meaning the SDSU location stocks heavier on game-day and finals-week weekends.