I take everyone who comes to town to novel. I recommend the bourbon ice cream in the donut. Some negative reviews are taking an ice cream place too serious. Service is fine! Ice cream in a donut is less work for the employees than in a waffle sandwich so they typically try to steer you away from the waffles, but who wouldn't near the end of their shift?

If you haven't stopped by Novel, you are missing out. You can't go wrong with warm glazed donuts with fantastic ice cream flavors. Depending on when you go, line can be SUPER Long but it goes pretty fast. There is not a lot of outdoor seating or parking so you just have to be lucky; don't let that steer you away because Novel is truly a gem.

The ice cream is DYNAMITE! My son got the Cookie Monster ice cream and I got the doughnut with blueberry cheesecake!!

Picture this. A warm lightly glazed light doughnut with a sweet creamy ice cream of your choice in the middle ....YES PLEASE! it's also a really cool courtyard to sit and socialize in as well. I love the Cookie Monster but beware it changes your entire mouth blue

Love novel! The bourbon caramel ice cream is my favorite! Service is always friendly and it's often busy, understandably so!

I have to tell you, if you haven't stopped by this sweet little spot, you're real in your FOMO! the flavors are so good and so unique, and their setup is really neat. You walk up through a pretty nook to order, and you're greeted with friendly service. Yep, that's right - you're just going to have to check it out to see what I mean! The blue ice cream was one of my absolute favorites. Super memorable, and so worth the drive from Maricopa. Will be back!

What could be better than donut and ice cream. Fat Elvis is exactly that...plus bacon! On my! Donut was good all on its own but ice cream and bacon put it over the top. Mango apple sorbet for non dairy eaters was also yummy! Line was long but went quickly. No indoor seating but service was excellent. Highly recommend!!

This is one of the most unique places to have a sweet treat in Arizona. I had the Chai tea ice cream dough melt (2 donuts with ice cream in the middle). The staff is very helpful when it comes to giving free samples and explaining how the process works. There is a nice seating area with string lights under a roof.

There's just not a lot of places in town that my wife and I both get what we want for dessert. However whenever we are downtown the wife wants novel and I want beer. Thanks to the kind folks at the Novel we continue to have the best times together. Tonight was no different and we will be back again soon

Such a cute little ice cream spot in the heart of DT Mesa! You have to walk all the way down the cutely decorated alley way towards the back of the store front to order, but it's worth it!! AND you get to burn off a few of those calories before piling on more splurging on your scrumptious ice cream!! We got the bourbon toffee and Fat Elvis flavors. Ka-ching! We totally scored! You wouldn't think that the flavors blend well with each other, but we were super happy mixing the two together! Either they were great flavors together, or we could just be two off monkeys, but either way, it'd be fun for you to find out! We were limited to gluten free flavors, which is why we ended with the bourbon toffee and Fat Elvis, but if you're not, knock yourself out! I'm sure ALL the flavors are dreamy! We took our puppers with us and they got a free pup cup of their ice cream of choice! Novel definitely knows how to make their customers happy!!