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The ice cream at Georgetown’s Seattle Freeze is a bit of a hybrid that’s halfway between scoop ice cream and soft serve: a machine takes an ice cream base, incorporates add-ins, and then churns it all out in flavors like pineapple mint, coconut, and chocolate black sesame. On the non-frozen side of things, husband-and-wife duo Darren McGill and Kryse Martin-McGill Read more...
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This gleaming gold and white “dessert atelier” counter in Bellevue’s Soma Tower flash freezes ice cream to order using frothy waves of liquid nitrogen. This spectacle delivers an extra-plush texture to flavors like olive oil, quinoa, or lavender. If the prep wasn’t sufficient Instagram bait, scoops come garnished with honeycomb or edible flowers. But heads up: FogRose is closed for Read more...
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Cousins and owners Kim and Tyler Malek founded Salt and Straw in 2011, dispensing flavors that take people on a rollercoaster ride—the sweet, nostalgia-hitting highs, the gasp-inducing drops into savory notes. And much like thrilling attractions, Salt and Straw tends to draw lines. People are known to queue down the block to get a taste of whatever boundaries and experiments Tyler, the flavor Read more...
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This longtime ice cream cart that solely appeared at farmers markets now proffers the herbaceous talents of former Poppy pastry chef, Matt Bumpas, from a daytime walk-up window. Bumpas’s culinary bona fides come through in flavors like Moroccan honey or chipotle peanut butter. And ice cream names don’t get much better than Monkey Butt—a combo of banana and peanut butter Read more...
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Pick a flavor (red velvet, cookie dough, toasted coconut) and two homespun cookies (snickerdoodle, chocolate chip, brown sugar). Voila: baseball-size custom ice cream sandwich. The walkup counter in the Central District fronts a busy production space, but seats can be had in the parklet down the street. Read more...
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This old school ice cream parlor on the First Avenue edge of Pike Place Market is charming as all get out, from the vintage soda fountain serving floats and egg creams (even ice cream-based cocktails) to the airy robin’s egg color scheme. Lopez Island Creamery supplies the 15-ish flavors; they’re lovely on their own, but even better in Shug’s menu Read more...
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Bainbridge Islanders have gone collectively insane over this mom-and-pop cart along Winslow Way, where baker Tristen Childers knows precisely how much butter it takes to properly laminate dough for her almond croissants, cinnamon buns, and more. Much will tempt you—including perfect bagels and individual-sized bread pudding—but Coquette’s gateway drug remains the unadorned croissant: flaky, butter rich, sublime. Read more...
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Darren McGill and Kristine Martin-McGill come up with flavors as they go at the ice cream counter now tucked into their own Happy Grillmore burger joint, where they have plenty of meal fixings to use as inspiration. They’ll throw shiitake mushrooms, avocado, and soy sauce into a scoop; next-door sibling Nate’s Wings and Waffles provides the filling for the Chicken and Waffle ice cream expected back this summer. The Read more...
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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...









