With warm weather creeping up on us – while we hold our breath of course, this is San Francisco after all – ice cream joints become increasingly busier.
One place that has been busy regardless of rain or shine has been Mitchell's Ice Cream, which has been a praised local establishment since 1953.
Their ube ice cream is the most notable flavor, as it has found a place in 7x7's Big Eat list. Ube is the Philippine term for purple yam. Philippine bakeries serve ube in all forms – cakes, rolls, and rice muffins. It's sweet and somewhat chalky, but in Mitchell's ice cream-form it's incredibly creamy without being too decadent.
Other Philippine flavors pepper their menu such as buko (baby coconut), halo halo (buko, langka, ube, pineapple, mongo, and sweet beans), lankgka (jackfruit, relative of the fig), and macapuno (sweet coconut).
The traffic is controlled pretty well via a “please take a number” system, so don't be too intimidated, as turnover is fast.
A single scoop is pretty hefty for $3.25.
Location:
688 San Jose Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94110
Open daily 11am-11pm
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