Hola Michoacan Ice Cream and Coffee Shop

Hola Michoacán Ice Cream and Coffee Shop serves scoops, aguas frescas, and coffee drinks from a spot on US Highway 431 in Guntersville, Alabama, bringing a Mexican paleteria style menu to a corner of Marshall County better known for lakefront seafood and barbecue. The shop’s own description sums up its approach directly: “Hola Michoacan is a place where you can enjoy Ice Cream and Coffee products made with the higher standards of quality. Our exotic products are home made using real fruit and no preservatives.”

The ice cream case is the heart of the menu, with a long list of scoop flavors priced at $3.25 each, including lime, mango, strawberry, coffee, chocolate, vanilla, Oreo, bubble gum, Ferrero, and strawberry cheesecake. A full sundae runs $6.50, and ice cream popsicles are available for $2.99, giving visitors a quick, affordable option for a hot afternoon in a lake town where summer temperatures make a cold treat an easy sell.

Beyond ice cream, the menu leans into a broader Mexican street food and beverage lineup that separates it from a standard American ice cream stand. Fruit waters, including hibiscus, pitaya, and horchata agua fresca, are priced around $3.60, and the specialty section includes items like elote, mangonada, chamoyada, vaso loco, and several styles of tostilocos. Superfood bowls built around pitaya, acai, and yogurt chia round out a menu section aimed at a more health-conscious crowd, each priced at $7.00.

The coffee side of the shop is not an afterthought either. The menu includes a latte for $4.95, a frappe for $5.90, and specialty drinks like a caramel macchiato iced coffee, an Oreo frappe, and a Gansito milkshake, each priced at $5.95. Sandwiches round things out further, with a sub-torta or sincronizada at $7.25 and a full torta at $8.00, meaning a visit here can just as easily be a lunch stop as a dessert run.

The shop keeps a schedule geared toward afternoons and evenings, generally closed Monday and Tuesday and open the rest of the week from around noon into the evening, with Thursday opening earlier in the morning. That kind of schedule fits a business built around foot traffic along US-431 rather than an early breakfast crowd, and it means visitors should plan an afternoon or evening stop rather than counting on it for a morning coffee run.

For a town of Guntersville’s size, a shop offering this range of homemade Mexican ice cream, fruit waters, and street food specialties alongside a real coffee menu fills a niche that would otherwise send residents driving toward Huntsville or Albertville for the same flavors. Between the scoop case, the specialty drink list, and the sandwich menu, Hola Michoacán gives Guntersville something genuinely different from the standard Southern dessert lineup of pie and cobbler found elsewhere around Marshall County.

Visitors can find current hours and updates through the shop’s social media accounts, and the full menu with pricing is posted on its website for anyone planning a visit ahead of time. With its wide-ranging menu of ice cream, aguas frescas, coffee, and Mexican street food, Hola Michoacán has carved out a distinct spot among Guntersville’s coffee and dessert options.

The location on US Highway 431 puts it a short drive from the center of downtown Guntersville, making it an easy stop for families heading toward or away from Lake Guntersville State Park, or for anyone driving the highway corridor that connects Guntersville to the rest of Marshall County. Because the ice cream and fruit waters are described as homemade with real fruit, the flavor list can shift depending on what is fresh and available, so regulars often check in on social media before a visit to see what specialty items are on the board that week.

The combination of an ice cream counter, a coffee bar, and a small Mexican street food menu under one roof is unusual for a town the size of Guntersville, where most dessert options split cleanly into either a bakery or a straightforward ice cream stand. Hola Michoacán instead treats the whole category as one menu, letting a customer walk in for a mangonada, stay for a torta, and leave with a scoop of coffee ice cream, all from the same counter. That range, paired with prices that stay approachable across the board, has made it a regular stop for both longtime Guntersville residents and visitors passing through on their way to the lake.