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Ice Cream/Gelato Parlor

Popsicles Los Angeles

Mateo’s Guayaba Paleta (Food of the Week)

Priciliano Mateo has proven to be quite the palata maven, with multiple Mateo’s Ice Cream & Fruit Bars locations scattered throughout Los Angeles, and certainly one of the city’s largest popsicle varieties. Expansion has...
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Farmer List California

Scream Sorbet: Oakland’s Surprisingly Quiet Farm-To-Cup Shop [CLOSED]

There aren’t many establishments with more deceptive names than Scream Sorbet, a sweet departure located next to the immensely popular Bakesale Betty cafe in Oakland’s Temescal Telegraph District. When we entered the tiny shop...
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Ice Cream Portland

Salt & Straw: Cranking Out Old School Ice Cream in PDX Parlor

These days, it’s not enough to just create good food or drink and expect people to swarm the front door. It of course helps to have some marketing prowess and social media ingenuity. For...
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Ice Cream Santa Cruz

The Penny Ice Creamery: Comforting + Seasonal in Santa Cruz

It didn’t take long to learn whether it was worth the wait at The Penny Ice Creamery, an artisan ice cream parlor from chef Kendra Baker and Zachary Davis in downtown Santa Cruz. We...
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Ice Cream Shop San Francisco

Bi-Rite Creamery (Soft Serve): Expanding Frozen Treat Expertise

Ever since Sam Mogannam opened a frozen treat-focused offshoot of his Mission market in 2006, Bi-Rite Creamery has set the standard for Bay Area ice cream emporiums. Shops like Humphry Slocombe feature wilder flavors...
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Ice Cream San Francisco

Mr. & Mrs. Miscellaneous: Artisanal Ice Cream in the Dogpatch

San Francisco is currently engaged in what could easily be described as an ice cream war. Based on pure popularity (308,945 Twitter followers and counting), Humphry Slocombe reigns supreme, but to my mind, Bi-Rite...
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