Fantasticks, a dessert shop that allows customers to customize gelato bars and popsicles with sprinkles, candies and drizzles of chocolate, is set to open its second Montgomery County location in downtown Silver Spring this weekend.
Kishan Bikki, founder of Fantasticks, said Wednesday the business is putting the finishing touches on the store decorations.
Fantasticks will be located at 915 Ellsworth Drive in the storefront recently vacated by Starbucks.

The shop serves gelato bars and fruit popsicles starting at $5 a pop. Up to three different toppings can be added for 75 cents and chocolate dip for $1. According to Bikki, about half of the flavors are vegan and non-dairy.
Customers can also enjoy scoops of gelato with small cups (one to two flavors) sold for $6 and the regular size (two to three flavors) priced at $7.25.
Fantasticks’ downtown Silver Spring location will be the dessert shop’s second in Montgomery County—another is in Gaithersburg’s Rio Lakefront at 215 Boardwalk Place—and fourth in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia region.
Bikki, who lives in Loudoun, Virginia, said he opened Fantasticks at its initial location in Loudoun in 2019. He then opened a second Fantasticks shop in Gaithersburg in 2021.
The downtown Silver Spring shop will be similar to the shop in Rio Lakefront but Bikki said he is hoping to introduce coffee drinks a few months after opening.