Recommended

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
• Temple Pastries Ice Cream Sandwich Window

Tier 3

• Sweet Alchemy
• Fancy Screams*
• Nutty Squirrel Gelato
• Milk and Leaf Collective*
• Molly Moon's
  • They've been slowly declining over the years ):
  • Get: waffle cone, chocolate hard shell
• KRYSE*
  • 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)
• Sugar Plum (closed)
• Hellenika Cultured Creamery
  • New concept from Ellenos founders

Decent

• Bluebird
• Cupcake Royale
• Milk Drunk
  • Soft serve
• Indigo Cow
  • Tastes like it's made of good quality fresh milk, but there's not much flavor
  • Highlight was actually the Theo chocolate hard shell

Not recommended

• 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

• Laina's
• Matcha Man Ice Cream & Taiyaki