Ice Cream

Sections

* popup/delivery/farmer's market

Tier 1

  • Frankie & Jo's
    • Seasonal flavors are where they shine; vanilla also good
  • Parfait (closed)
    • Get: vegan double chocolate dip bars, vegan chocolate, matcha
  • Lick Pure Cream (closed)

Tier 2

  • Pink's/ Macadons*
  • Seattle Pops
  • Ice Cream Sandwich Window (by Temple Pastries)
  • Sweet Alchemy
    • Highlights: seasonal strawberry rhubarb, seasonal sakura, Tale of Two Teas
  • Hellenika Cultured Creamery
    • New concept from Ellenos founders. Based in Pike Places, also shows up at farmer's markets
    • Highlights: ube coconut, marionberry
  • Raindrop Creamery
    • 08/26: first visit, pretty impressed! Good waffle cone, flavors that taste like real ingredients and mostly match the descriptions. Would try again. Usually, chocolate brownie-flavored ice cream is pretty cheap and lacks chocolate flavor, but theirs was quite good

Tier 3

  • Fancy Screams* (closed?)
  • Nutty Squirrel Gelato
  • Milk and Leaf Collective* (closed/hibernating)
  • Molly Moon's
    • They've been slowly declining over the years ):
    • Get: waffle cone, chocolate hard shell
  • KRYSE* (dormant?)
    • Trivia: Kryse & her ex-husband used to run Central District Ice Cream, which we didn't like because the flavors never lived up to promise. But her solo venture is quite the opposite
  • Kurt Farm Shop (closed)
    • Owner now works full time on his farm on Vashon Island, hosting classes and lectures
    • Also runs an Airbnb on the farm. Pro tip: take a class and booking a night's stay for an indulgent getaway
  • Sugar Plum (closed)

Decent

  • Salt & Straw
    • Interesting sounding flavors rarely live up to expectations
  • Full Tilt
    • Thai Tea and Ube are decent sometimes
  • Fainting Goat
    • Weird because they are basically the same store as Nutty Squirrel (owned by either parents/children of FG's owners)
  • Shug's
  • YoYo and CoCo

To Try/ retry