“Oh the places you’ll go
Congratulations
Today is your day,
Your off to great places, Your up and away……..”
We have found some great places for you to explore. In our next three posts we will take you to some very special places that we have discovered and want to share with you. They are small niche businesses that have become successful and immensely popular by specializing in one product and making that product the best that it can be.
Bi-Rite Creamery is our first discovery, although I understand that Alice Waters discovered before us and loves it. That should tell you something! Their ice cream is made from the Straus Family organic dairy products. They have about seventeen different flavors to try and they will give you a taste of all you want on metal spoons to save the environment a ton of plastic spoons! All other packaging is biodegradable.
How about roasted banana? Made with organic bananas that have been slowly cooked with brown sugar or rocky road made with house made marshmallows and chocolate covered almonds. Honey Lavender, is made with both ingredients collected from Mint Hill about a mile away. They have granitas, sorbets and fresh fruit popsicles, all made with fresh organic fruit.
Next time we go we are going try their ice cream sandwiches. I mean who can resist snickerdoodle cookies with cinnamon ice cream, or gingersnaps with pumpkin ice cream? The list goes on……
We went for a sundae and sundaes they have. Brownie Sundae is made with housemade brownies, vanilla ice cream, chocolate and caramel sauces, whipped cream and candied pecans or how about a Toffee Sundae, made with housemade almond toffee, coffee toffee ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream and marcona almonds. We had heard about their Sam’s sundae and wanted to try it. Chocolate ice cream, bergamot olive oil, maldon sea salt and whipped cream. I know, I know sounds strange, but, try it and see. At first your tongue has to tell your brain that this will be different. Once that is established, this is soooo good you are scraping the bowl. The ice cream is fantastic, creamy with a deep chocolate flavor and not the least bit icy, the cream is like no other whipped cream you have tasted, thick and buttery. So with the chocolate ice cream and the whipped cream you could end it right there, but there is also a light sprinkle of sea salt and a pour of orange flavor olive oil for that salty sweet experience with a touch of orange. Pure heaven in a biodegradable cup!
They also have a small bakery with freshly made cookies, ice cream cakes, and ice cream pies, I mean how about a S’more ice cream pie! If this is not enough how about bittersweet hot chocolate?
This is a carryout place as it is very tiny. In fact there is a velvet rope in the doorway - one side is enter the other exit. Got the idea? Lines can be long and parking , well parking is city parking, but the trip is well worth it. Try it and let us know what you think.
We give the Bi-Rite Creamery 5 napkins
Bi-Rite Creamery
3692 18th Street
San Francisco, Calif.
94110
