Cereal bars, eateries where you actually order and eat bowls of cereal, are a thing in other parts of the country — and world — but Minnesota, land of General Mills, has been without one until now.

Treats Cereal Bar and Boba opens Saturday on Grand Avenue, and it will serve cereal, but with an ice cream twist, and boba tea.

Treats, located in a former hair salon, is the brainchild of brother-and-sister duo Trisha Seng and Minh Dinh, both of whom formerly worked in finance for Wells Fargo. It is their first business together (Seng is part owner of Waffle Bar Dessert and Tea in Uptown).

The pair, who are the youngest in a family of 11 children, said they travel together and loved the cereal bar concept.

“We felt like we really had to bring this to Minnesota,” Seng said. “It’s cereal, but we’re replacing the milk with ice cream.”

The shop has a custom-made machine that grinds cereal and ice cream together and shoots it out in a soft swirl into a cup or cone. The result is creamy but with lots of cereal crunch, and quite unlike most ice cream treats. The cones themselves come in wild flavors like matcha, salted blue corn, birthday cake, orange dreamsicle and red velvet.

As for the boba tea, every matcha drink is hand whisked to order, and they are using their own tea blends and local Autumnwood milk.

Dinh, who graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a fashion degree, and Seng designed the sleek, subway-tiled shop themselves and commissioned a local artist to create a mural using General Mills cereal characters. There will be a few seats inside and about 16 more on the patio outside the shop.

The grand opening party runs from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and will feature a guest DJ and free merchandise and sweet treats for the first 50 customers.