Coffee & Treats in Seabrook

For a tasty treat, head out for a few scoops on an ice cream cone at Dairy Queen. Dairy Queen features a wide variety of flavorful low-fat and gluten-free eats. You'll want to save quiet conversations for another spot, though — the ice cream shop can get noisy. Love the food so much you want to serve it at your next soiree? No problem — Dairy Queen offers catering. You can also grab your grub to go. null You won't break the bank at Dairy Queen, with a meal typically hovering below the $15 mark. The menu at Dairy Queen includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner — stop by for your favorite meal.

Lauded for its “timeless” feel by Houston Press, Chelsea Wine Bar’s creative menu of old-fashioned comfort food pairs perfectly with the restaurant’s weekly live music offerings and waterfront views. Satisfy sandwich-size cravings with the roast-turkey panini, topped with swiss cheese and basil pesto ($6.50), or the brie, tomato, and spinach panini ($6.50). Herbivores and dairy enthusiasts can skip carnivorous options and munch on the cheese flatbread pizza ($5), baked goat-cheese platter ($10), or warm brie plate ($10.50). Dessert-deigning diners can reminisce on childhoods spent roasting marshmallows over the warm glow of the television with the chocolate-mallow conglomeration of Susie’s s’mores ($6.50), which is complemented by a wide selection of gourmet coffee beverages from delectable white mochas ($3.50) to potent double espressos ($2.75).

The Marble Slab Creamery sensory experience begins by just walking past the storefront, where the buttery scent of fresh-baked waffle cones drifts out into the air. Gourmet ice creams are freshly crafted on site from Marble Slab’s original recipe, enticing customer's eyes with a rainbow of colors. Once clients have made a flavor selection, they choose from a smorgasbord of mix-ins, from fresh fruit to nuts to candy and crumbled cookies, which an ice cream chef then hand-folds in atop a frosty marble slab before packing the finished custom-designed flavor masterpiece into a house-made waffle cone. In addition to procuring hand-held treats, Marble Slab Creamery can send creations home in a variety of other formats, such as ice cream cakes, cupcakes, and hand-packed quarts, or in the capable hands of a catering team for sprucing up special events such a corporate get-togethers or school functions with sundae bars in tow.

Marble Slab Creamery has used its cold-marble technique to fashion gourmet ice cream and frozen treats fresh in-store since 1983. At 541 locations across the world, customers look on admiringly as expert marble mavens take fresh flavors—including distinctive varieties such as peanut-butter banana, European-chocolate rum, and the pineapple-tinged piña colada—and blend in any of more than two dozen mix-in ingredients such as name-brand candies or fresh fruit atop a frozen marble slab. They then stick the concoction onto a bowl or one of the fresh waffle cones that staffers bake in-store every day. Marble Slab's confections also include ice-cream cakes, cupcakes, and dessert pizzas bedecked with sweet-cream ice cream and flavorful toppings.

Are smoothies your jam? You've come to the right place at League City's Smoothie King. Come prepared to feast at Smoothie King — with no low-fat options, any diets will need to be put aside for the moment. Smoothie King is a good restaurant to dine with a small or large group. Bring your laptop here and tap into the complimentary wifi. null Forget the hassle of street parking and head to Smoothie King for easy access to parking lots. Prices at Smoothie King are a bargain (usually less than $15 for a meal), so you'll have plenty of cash left over to treat a friend (or two). At Smoothie King, you have the option of paying by major credit card. Smoothie King has menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner — just pick your favorite meal and head over.

The eponymous owner of Jenny’s Bakery has been crafting carefully sugared confections for more than 20 years. Thumbprint cookies ($7/dozen) offer evidence of who stole the cookies from the cookie jar, though sugary scones ($2 each) and muffins ($1.50 each) crumble when quizzed over the case. Alternately, gather a litter of cake's spherical offspring with a dozen poppable cake balls ($10), or get a forceful sugar-kick from feisty petits fours ($2.50 each) and shortbread cookies ($2.75 each) whose sizeable flavor belies their unassuming names.