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This is the place to go when you want Elysian Stout in a cone. The Fremont location boasts a cool vintage soda fountain and a lineup of floats to match, the outpost on Greenwood Ave incorporates a mini brewery for beer floats. Snickerdoodle ice cream forever. Read more...
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Flavors made from scratch every morning. Natural, organic ingredients, some sourced from Italy. A dude with a wicked knack for the delicious. That’s D’Ambrosio Gelato. At the helm is master gelataio Enzo D’Ambrosio, who trained at a gelateria in central Italy and is now bent on bringing Seattleites the type of stuff you’d only find touring the Boot. Meaning there’s Read more...
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Trophy won the Vanilla category of our cupcake-comparing 2009 desserts blowout Sweet Science; one taster said: “the sweet, distinct vanilla tastes like it came from nature, not a chemistry lab.” The Wallingford hot spot was also runner-up in the Baker’s Choice category with its Red Velvet, a cupcake we found deep and complex. Read more...
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Yes, these doughnuts are vegan (and organic, and free of preservatives, trans fats, artificial colors or flavors, and cholesterol). But to focus on that stuff is to undermine how freaking wonderful they are. The French toast doughnut is at once both simple and life-changing. Read more...
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Marvel at owner Justin Cline’s peculiar but brilliant formula: pinball plus beer plus ice cream. Cline takes his game selection as seriously as his flavors, which can vary from Vietnamese cinnamon to mango chili to root beer (bonus points for vegan flavors that aren’t lame). A visit to any of Full Tilt’s five locations will probably feature a raucous soundtrack, Read more...
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Jerry Perez and Ana Orselli, a husband-and-wife team from Argentina, keep their frozen desserts under wraps. Sealed stainless-steel containers keep Mora’s ice creams and sorbets at optimum temperature until they top your cone. “Our challenge is to make the ice cream like your grandmother would have made it,” says Ana. Our grandmothers never made anything like their goat-cheese-and-fig sorbet, but Read more...
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Maria Coassin comes from a long line of Italian bakers and is committed to honoring their trade. “I hear compliments from customers saying that her gelato is just as good as Italy’s or better,” says Gelatiamo manager Skyler Engberg. For our money, Coassin’s coconut gelato is the most delicious embodiment of that flavor on the planet. Read more...
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Doughnuts and fritters are served at this family-owned shop in the U-District. Read more...
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The kind of treasure every neighborhood should have, Husky has kept West Seattle in rich housemade ice creams (oh, the licorice!) since 1932. Fat deli sandwiches and gourmet foodstuffs round out the offerings, but it’s the historic sense of community here that keeps ’em coming. Read more...
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To all the hipsters wasting precious barhopping time in line at Molly Moon’s; to all the children watching hordes of others get their ice cream first; and to the parents dealing with said children’s whining about it, take note: Old School Frozen Custard is just a few blocks up Pike. As every Midwest transplant knows, nothing compares to that thick-buttery-creamy, Read more...








