College Hill is getting an ice cream, coffee shop that can print your face on your latte
Clifton Square won’t be without ice cream for long.
Last week, I reported that Flavors Coffee and Ice Cream Bar had lost its lease in the old two-story house in Clifton Square, the collection of businesses at 3700 E. Douglas in College Hill., that it had occupied for years. Owner Ryan Nall announced that the shop would close on March 28.
Now, there’s news that another business will move in, and the owner hopes to have it open within 30 days of Flavors’ closing.
Derek Sorrells, who opened a soda, hot sauce, candy and novelty shop called Sweet ‘n Saucy last June in Delano, is taking over the spot, he said. Sorrells, who also is an owner of The Arcade — a retro video game palace in Old Town — said he is planning to call his new business Papa’s General Store.
He’ll also sell coffee and ice cream, but he’s going to add several twists, he said.
One is that he plans to bring in lots of the offbeat sodas he sells at Sweet ‘n Saucy, 535 W. Douglas, and will turn them into equally offbeat “craft” ice cream floats. For example, he says, he carries an apple pie-flavored soda that when mixed with vanilla ice cream becomes an apple pie a la mode float.
He’s also ordering a coffee printer, which will allow his baristas to take latte art to the next level. The machine allows customers to have photos printed in the foam of their drinks, and it only takes about 10 seconds.
Sorrells also plans to offer a hot chocolate bar.
The space has an upstairs area, and Sorrells, who has become known at Sweet ‘n Saucy for his large variety of whimsically printed socks, plans to sell socks there. He’ll carry more kid’s and women’s sizes than he does in Delano.
The socks will be set up around the edges of the space, and in the center, he’ll also carry adult novelty items like edgy coffee mugs, silly toilet paper and more.
“We are going to carry a few fun things you would find at a general store, too,” he said. “It’s kind of a hodgepodge.”
Sorrells said that when he decided he wanted to open another business, he talked to Clifton Square and was considering a space on the west side of the shopping center that Computer Troubleshooters of Wichita just moved in to.
He was dragging his feet making a decision, though, and missed it. That’s when the landlords told him that the Flavors spot would be coming open, he said.
“I want it to be the place kids want to come not only for the ice cream but for all the things you could buy at the corner general store,” Sorrells said.
I’ll keep you posted on the store’s progress.
This story was originally published February 19, 2020 at 5:01 AM.
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