Coffee & Treats in Taylors

Iced is a gourmet cupcake cafe offering over 60 varieties. Cupcakes come in 3 traditional sizes and the "GIANT" cupcake is also available. Iced also offers totally custom gourmet cupcakes, cupcake cakes, petite cakes as well as cupcake decorating parties, delivery and special event set-up services too!

The culinary crew at Crave It Bakery & Cafe mixes up sweet baked goods and savory café fare ranging from pies to turkey club wraps while catering to allergies of all varieties. Comestibles from the bakery sate sweet cravings with bags of cookies in a variety of saccharine persuasions ($1.50 each). Visitors browse cases stocked with scratch-made sweets such as fried apple hand pies ($1 each), pumpkin rolls ($2.50/slice or $14 for a whole roll), 8-inch sweet-potato cakes ($28), and a variety of gluten-free and vegan options for breaking pinky-promises to the tooth fairy.

Head chef Valerie Rebellato combines her Brazilian origins with her love for its food in Cafe Paulista Grille’s made-from-scratch menu and its amenable atmosphere. Several meaty entrees encourage sharing, with large portions and a surfeit of sides such as fried banana, feijoada, and rice. Mix up beef and poultry with the Espetinho Caipira for Two, a vision of skewered sirloin and chicken breast ($27.99), among other skewered entree delights. Indecisive or surprise-loving diners can take a gustatory leap and leave their fate in Val’s deft hands, which will cook up whatever’s on her mind (except anything personally allergenic) ($8.99). Wash a meal down with a surfeit of exotic juice combinations ($3.69) featuring aliments such as cashew fruit, acai, and mango, or sip the strong house coffee ($1.99) with a rich, caramel fried banana ($2.99) or brazilian tiramisu ($4.99).

At Rita’s Ice, a variety of frozen treats refresh customers and satisfy sweet-tooth cravings. Their signature Italian ice blends ice and fresh fruit in flavors such as banana, cherry, piña colada, mango, and strawberry. Meanwhile, custard arrives in cups or cones, coated with hot fudge or caramel, as the mysterious gelati blends both Italian ice and custard into one delectable creation. Also available are milkshakes, hot chocolate, coffee, and Philadelphia-style hot pretzels.

Honey Hush Fudge settles sweet-toothed demands with scores of southern-style desserts, homemade fudge, and ice cream. Plunder assortments of boxed fudge containing multiple varieties packed with chocolate chunks, rich walnuts, or sweet maple accents ($7 for 6 pieces, $17 for 20 pieces). Fleeting seasonal flavors include key lime and orange slice during the summer, candy corn and peppermint closer to the holidays, or corndog and pine tar during baseball season. Moist, homemade cakes ($22+), cookies ($7.50 for 12), and pies ($20+) perch behind glass cases, shining like sugared, celestial stars without the astronomic egos. Visitors to Honey Hush's airy retail space can sample an array of ice cream and practice proper spoon- and cone-based etiquette ($1.50 for a single scoop).

Keva offers high quality ingredients and a sensuous selection of juicy smoothies ripe for sipping. Evoke the islands with a Keva Kolada, made with pineapple juice, luscious pineapple sherbet, coconut, banana, and non-fat frozen yogurt. The Berry Bombshell blends orange and apple juice, raspberry sherbert, yogurt, bananas, raspberries, and blueberries to create a tart, sweet smoothie sure to send raspberry stock through the roof. The Oh-la-la Oreo whips up non-fat milk and vanilla yogurt with chocolate syrup and Oreos, satisfying the most debilitating chocolate craving with a bit of added crunch. The Orange Obsession mixes orange and mango passion juice, banana, honey, and strawberries with delectable orange sherbet, creating an orchestration of orange sure to shatter the windows of your flavor facility. All smoothies are made with 100% fruit juice, real fruit, and delicious yogurts and sherbets. Prices range from $2.95 for 12 ounces to $4.95 for 32 ounces.