Lagomarcino's Confectionery

Lagomarcino's Confectionery is an ice cream shop in Rock Island, IL, with its storefront on 5th Avenue. The shop serves the Quad Cities community with chocolates, boxed confections, bulk candies, nuts, bark, and seasonal items, alongside a working soda fountain where table service is available during daytime hours. Products can be ordered for pickup, delivery, or shipping, and the company also takes custom orders.

The business was founded in 1908 by Angelo Lagomarcino, who had emigrated from northern Italy to New York City in 1896 before settling in Burlington, Iowa, where he worked in his brother Carl's confectionery. After starting a family with his wife Luigia, Angelo opened his own shop in downtown Moline in early 1908. In those early decades, downtown Moline was a busy entertainment district, and theatergoers would stop in for ice cream sodas, malted milks, and signature sundaes with names like the Butter Kist Almond, Dream Daddy, Hawaiian Twilight, and Black Cherry Banana Special. The shop also served sandwiches, salads, homemade pie, and fountain drinks. Today the menu still centers on sundaes, chocolates, and a soda fountain tradition that has continued for more than a century, with a second location in the East Village of Davenport. The business has been recognized with the 2006 James Beard Foundation America's Classic Award and has been written up in National Geographic Traveler, the Chicago Tribune, Midwest Living Magazine, Saveur, and Roadfood, the latter calling the hot fudge possibly the best in the solar system.

The shop sits along 5th Avenue, with 4th Avenue about a tenth of a mile away, the Central Fire Station a short distance north, and the Rock Island County Office Building and Justice Center both within a quarter mile. Gabe and Lee Barber Park is also nearby.

With a rating of 4.80, Lagomarcino's draws on more than a century of family-run candy and soda fountain craft in downtown Moline.