San Francisco is described as a city that does not naturally fit the idea of an ice cream destination, yet people eat ice cream anyway. Fog and cool temperatures are paired with brief bursts of warmer days that trigger cravings. A search covers many types of places, including gelaterias, soft-serve counters, dessert menus that add sundaes, and ice cream trucks. The list spans neighborhoods such as the Mission, Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, SoMa, Hayes Valley, the Castro, Noe Valley, Cole Valley, the Haight, Fillmore, Japantown, Pacific Heights, North Beach, Russian Hill, the Marina, Cow Hollow, the Embarcadero, the Financial District, Inner and Outer Sunset, and areas around Golden Gate Park and the Presidio. Examples include Bi-Rite Creamery and Mitchell’s Ice Cream.
"San Francisco is not an ice cream town the way a place with an actual summer is an ice cream town. We eat it anyway: in the fog, in a fleece. Then we get our four real days of heat in February and October, lose our collective minds, and eat ice cream."
"I went looking for all of it. The institutions, the gelaterias, the Asian soft serve counters, the restaurants quietly sneaking a sundae onto the dessert menu, the truck idling by the de Young. I do mean "all," though I also know there's no such thing as a definitive list; somebody's favorite scoop is always missing, and that somebody is going to email me."
"The Mission Bi-Rite Creamery The one with the line snaking toward Dolores Park, and the line is correct. Salted caramel is the order of record; the buffalo-milk soft serve is the sleeper. You'll tell yourself you're sharing a pint in the park. You won't."
"The Richmond Golden Gate Park and the Presidio Twirl & Dip - 335 Martin Luther King Jr Dr, at the Music Concourse, plus a Presidio cart · Yelp Aunt Fanny's Cafe - 100 Montgomery St, in the Presidio · Instagram Presidio Tunnel Tops Pop-Up - 210 Lincoln Blvd, around the Tunnel Tops and Visitor Center · presidio.gov"
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