Ice Cream restaurants in San Francisco
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Gelateria Naia
Chinatown and North Beach cross-pollinate with creamy concoctions that improve on the ordinary, elevating the usual Chinese green tea or Italian pistachio ice cream options to a decadent choice of Kyoto maccha tea or locally roasted California pistachio gelato. Local, seasonal flavors and constant experimentation introduce entirely new sorbet and gelato obsessions with flavors ranging from white peach to black sesame.
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Mitchell’s Ice Cream
An otherwise nondescript Mission block is thronged with grinning grown-ups and kids doing happy dances as they make their Mitchell’s selections: will it be a classic like Kahlua mocha cream or the toasted almond-peanut-butter indulgence, or a tropical flavor like macapuno (a coconut variation) or mango? The avocado and purple yam are acquired tastes, but aficionados claim they’re hard to shake – and hard to find anywhere but here.
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Swensen’s
Bite into your ice-cream cone, and you’ll get instant brain-freeze and a hit of nostalgia besides. Oooh-ouch, that peppermint stick really takes you back, doesn’t it? The 16-ounce root beer floats are the 1950s version of Prozac, but the classic hot fudge sundae is pure serotonin with sprinkles on top.
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Humphry Slocombe
Indie-rock ice cream may permanently spoil you for Top 40 flavors: once balsamic-vinegar caramel and olive oil have rocked your tastebuds, cookie dough seems so obvious, and ice cream sandwiches can’t compare for decadence to foie gras ice cream between ginger snaps.
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