Humphry Slocombe: Teaser of news to come!
Looks like we’ll soon hear the news about the next move from famously popular San Francisco ice creamery, Humphry Slocombe . It was only a matter of time!
From SF Eater:
“The Trick Dog 3010 20th St. bar from the Bon Vivants crew looks to be opening soon, and it will do so without The Parlour by Humphry Slocombe at its side, as originally intended. The new and unexpected neighbor is Sightglass Coffee, who will move into the space originally slated to be a bakery and cafe project from ice cream titans Jake Godby and Sean Vahey. Vahey says the Parlour idea has been shelved altogether, and an official statement about this development follows.”In the three years since Humphry Slocombe came up with The Parlour concept/project, the Humphry Slocombe business has grown and evolved. Currently, we find ourselves excited to expand the Humphry Slocombe brand and have decided to focus on the opportunities we have to do so versus pursuing an entirely new line of business with The Parlour. Accordingly, were passing the space on to our good friends at Sightglass, who we feel will create a business that is incredibly additive to this unique neighborhood.”Vahey teases that there will be more HumpSlo news coming soon. In the meantime, the opening date for Sightglass on 20th Street is still TBA.
via Humphry Slocombe Nixes The Parlour – Switcheroos – Eater SF.
Ice cream in the Dogpatch
Meet the Pink Panther by ice cream superstars Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous. The Pink Panther is an ice cream flavored with almond liquor and chocolate liquors. Rich. You’ll find Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco- urban, trendy and my favorite ice cream shop in the city.
Here are some other flavors I’ve tried there.
Chile Pies Opens in the Castro, Chipotle Bonanza, More! – Friday Opening Report – Eater SF
Chile Pies Opens in the Castro, Chipotle Bonanza, More! – Friday Opening Report – Eater SF.
WE LOVE PIE! And, we love the NOPA location of Chile Pies and Ice Cream. Home of incredible crust and one of our favorite ice creams for a la mode, the local organic and wonderful Three Twins. Can’t wait to have both in the Castro.
Check out our homage to another pie establishment here. yes, we still think Pie is the new cupcake…
Smitten is OPEN…YAY!
We’ve been waiting a while for this one. Smitten, center of a lot of buzz in the local ice cream scene (check out our Smitten post, here), is finally open for business in the fledgling Hayes Valley Proxy project, soon to be THE hot summer foodie destination (coming, a beer garden by Suppenkuche and a pizza kiosk by Delfina, among others) Smitten dishes out the freshest ice cream you can buy anywhere: it’s made to order using a fantastic liquid nitrogen freezing system that whizzes and smokes and delivers decadent deliciousness right before your very eyes!
Check out this article in the Daily Candy and stay tuned for our on-the-ground coverage, coming soon;-) Homemade pizzelle cones…
Smitten Ice Cream Shop Opens in Hayes Valley
Made-to-Order Scoops in 60 Seconds
Time was, seeing Smitten’s Red Flyer wagon around town meant one thing: sprinting after it for a scoop of ice cream like you hadn’t eaten in days.
Hang up your running shoes and park it on a milk crate in the Hayes Valley Proxy Project instead. That’s where Smitten just opened a shop.
Owner Robyn Sue Goldman’s innovative liquid-nitrogen machine (the Kelvin) means each scoop is made one at a time, in just a minute. The freshest in-season ingredients and creative flavor combos (maple brown sugar butternut squash and candied pecans; banana chocolate chunk; strawberry and white balsamic) top even your childhood ice cream fantasies.
For now, order a cup of the speedy treat; homemade pizzelle cones and cookie sandos are on the way. No matter what flavor you choose, consider Smitten a justifiable detour in your diet.
Smitten Ice Cream, 432 Octavia Street, at Linden Street, suite 1a (415-863-1518 or smittenicecream.com).
Forthcoming Hayes Valley Ice-Creamery Sounds Like a Foodie Event Horizon – SFist
((SHARE from SFist.com))
“This afternoon, EaterSF takes a look at the construction of Smitten, which could very well be the most densely buzzword-packed restaurant to date. Once you start reading the description, it becomes impossible to turn back no matter how badly you want to. Observe:
Smitten is a made-to-order (slow food: check), liquid nitrogen (molecular gastronomy: check) ice cream shop (frozen dairy products: check) built inside of a recycled shipping container (food truck: check, kinda) that has been dropped in to an empty lot in Hayes Valley (neighborhood revitalization by way of dessert: check). What’s more, the shop’s owner started off with just one liquid nitrogen ice cream machine in a red wagon in the park (food cart: check). That was way back in 2009, even. When people still wanted to eat food at tables. And before you ask: Salted Caramel is on the menu (check).
Still, as much as we’d like to be annoyed by all this, the idea of slobbering all over a handmade pizzelle cone topped with “one of the purest commercial ice creams out there”, some sweaty October afternoon does seem kind of pleasant, doesn’t it? At least it’s not another fro-yo place, right? That would be too L.A.”
via Forthcoming Hayes Valley Ice-Creamery Sounds Like a Foodie Event Horizon – SFist.
What To Expect at Smitten, Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Shop – Plywood Special – Eater SF
What To Expect at Smitten, Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Shop – Plywood Special – Eater SF.
Anxiously awaiting the arrival of what could be the best ice cream store in the City… Smitten. Check out the story linked above for the details about this venture, which will entail ice cream made-to-order with one of four liquid nitrogen ice cream machines. Smitten is part of a greater project called the Hayes Valley Proxy, a network of shipping containers that will form a food court of sorts in this very cool SF neighborhood.
From Delfina Pizza to a Suppenkuche beer garden, this is going to be an excellent foodie destination!
we love this hot new foodie website, Deep Dishing by the gorgeous Marcia G.
:^)
There’s a hot new foodie website on the interwebs, and it just launched today. It’s called Deep Dishing and it’s the brainchild of Marcia Gagliardi of Tablehopper fame (((our OTHER favorite foodie website 
))
What do we love about the site? It provides the reader a fast way to find out which restaurants are trending right now, and an easy way to look up the ‘fan-favorite’ dishes on each of those menus. Need a recommendation for a…? There’s an active forum that delves into such consequential questions as “Where’s the best croissant?” and apropos a previous post on this blog, “Where’s the best burger???” Now, we know.
And thankfully on Deep Dishing, there are lots, and lots of pictures of those menu items and, as everyone knows, we here at MUS•e•YUM do love our food porn;-)
Best of luck Marcia! It’s lookin’ hot!
PS: if you look carefully enough through the image galleries on DeepDishing, you just might find some familiar photos . . .
the Heartwarming Story of the Open Hand Fluffer Nutter
The people of San Francisco really know how to love. Having lived here for 10 years, I’ve seen people practice charity and kindness, from the simple to the grand, to a degree unsurpassed by anywhere else that I’ve lived. So, when I hear about a story like the one told in the following video, a story of different businesses and groups creatively partnering for the purpose of supporting a single, charitable goal, I love to spread the word and in so doing I love to spread, well, the love. ((In fact, where ice cream is involved, I shout!)) Check out the video below for a story about the partnering of two local organizations, a non-profit and a small business, that embody the very best of San Francisco values. And, I encourage you to support both of them because of what they do for our community. Happy Valentine’s Day, folks!
I give you Project Open Hand* and Humphry Slocombe:
*In the 25 years that Project Open Hand has been serving food, they’ve never missed a single day.
best concert at an ice cream shop, 2010: Jane Wiedlin plays Humphry Slocombe with special guest, Big Gay Ice Cream Truck
Humphry Slocombe‘s played host to a birthday party- slash- ice-cream-mashup this summer, 22 August, and the result of this hot-mess conflagration-of-coolness turned out to be one of the most memorable parties of the year. The birthday boy was Doug Quint of the infamous Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. Haven’t heard of it yet? It’s a roving ice cream truck out of New York, and it has a cult following there. The man himself chose Humphry Slocombe’s as the site of his party, and dished up a special flavor on-the-spot, Tranny Smackdown:
(“tranny padding” (shortbread baked by Humphry’s Jake Godby), Slocombe strawberry ice cream and marshmallow fluff, smeared “mascara” (dark chocolate sauce), and smeared “lipstick” (Amarena cherry sauce), all topped with Trix cereal.)
Add to the mix Quint’s long-time friend, rocker and former Go-Go Jane Wiedlin, who lives in the Mission(!!) and who, in the column of coolest. birthday. present. ever. debuted her new song Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, a gift for Quint (which you can download on iTunes here)
Rounding out the glamouratti: Yay! Sprinkles and Beach Blanket Babylon were on hand to provide the requisite chic flair, together with lots (and lots) of rainbow balloons…
Beach Blanket Babylon at Humphry Slocombe's
Birthday party at Humphry Slocombe's
Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream, the Mission, SF
from food cart to store front; Smitten Ice Cream Opening a Shop in Hayes Valley
Made-to-order ice cream. That’s right, ice cream made on-the-spot at the time you order with the amazing liquid nitrogen ice cream maker-on-a-Radio Flyer wagon dubbed the Kelvin.
The process in fantastic, your scoop arrives in a whoosh of white cloud, like a magic trick, or the most memorable science experiment from that high school chemistry class. (Just follow Twitter for the time and location to find the cart, and you’re good to go!)
But this cart has been so popular, it’s been able to cross-over to brick and mortar. (Well, actually repurposed shipping container . . . see the link to the article below.) Future location? Octavia and Linden, Hayes Valley, SF.
Says the proprietor Robyn Sue Goldman, “We will have four ‘Kelvin’ machines, and each one will be used to churn a different flavor,” explained Goldman. “We will be featuring the freshest seasonal flavors and changing two flavors every week based on what’s best at the market. Every scoop will be made to order, and visitors will even be able to order off the menu, based on the ingredients we have, if they think of something that better suits their taste buds.”
best ice cream shops of San Francisco series: Humphry Slocombe
ice cream from Humphry Slocombe in San Francisco, brown butter and Harvey Milk (honey & graham crackers)
Bold, unique flavors, top-quality ice cream, an irreverent aesthetic and the frequency of new flavors (daily) have made Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream destination eating in the Mission. In fact, the store is nationally known, thanks to the New York Times and Food Network.
Humphry Slocombe certainly is emblematic of the neighborhood in which it resides. The Mission is an eclectic place, even for this city. While most SF neighborhoods boast a unique character, I think this neighborhood has not just one personality but three to call its own. The Mission is of course THE latin neighborhood, first and foremost, and home to the original Spanish Mission from whence it derives its name. But, it is also home to a counterculture inked-and-pierced hipster/student/artist/tweeting/coffee-drinking/laptop warrior crowd, riders of fixie-bikes, wearers of vintage clothing and missionaries of alternative lifestyles of all flavors.
Third, the Mission is home to a vibrant and devoted food lovers’ culture, one that values the holy trinity of local, sustainable and organic and evangelizes those values from the neighborhood pulpit.
Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream is where at least the last two of these three Mission profiles converge. Owner Jake Godby himself is certainly inked, with ice cream cones etched on his arm and the Pillsbury Doughboy decorating his leg, and his ice cream flavors include ones that (in current Mission fashion) defy all convention- like Prosciutto, Salt & Pepper, foie gras and cucumber ice milk.
Like the murals on Balmy Alley, kitty corner across 24th Street from his shop, Godby uses every color in the box when devising his ice creams. But while there’s plenty of Mission irreverence and irony in some of the names (like Rosemary’s Baby, Jesus Juice or Elvis, the Fat Years) Godby’s attention to the quality of the ingredients and ice-cream-making process show a reverence of the highest kind. His ice cream is art. Albeit, Dada.
He’s known to make small batches from the best ingredients he can find from blackberries to mushrooms to 100 year scotch and as such, the flavors available change daily. The promise of something truly amazing, or at least a good dare, compels people to follow Humphry Slocombe dutifully on Twitter so as not to miss out on the latest experiment. And followers he has!
All this excitement around the store and of course, the great ice cream make this a favorite spot of mine. I’ve had some flavors that I liked and some I didn’t but I always go back because when it’s good, it’s really good. And, if it’s bad, at least it will probably become a good story for later.
Flavors I’ve tried:
Secret Breakfast, very sweet and rich base, rounded by the alcohol but not overpowered by it. Cornflakes add a nice texture and balance the sweet nicely.
Jesus Juice, sorbet in texture, not milky, rather the intense flavor of wine only slightly curbed by the sweetness of cola. Can be cloying by last lick.
Brown Butter, utterly good, sweet, buttery and rich. You’ll finish it wanting more.
Harvey Milk (Honey, graham crackers), very Milky, very sweet, I’m not much of a honey fan but loved this. The graham crackers really showcase the flavor and add an interesting texture.
Rosemary’s Baby, love the combination of rosemary and pine nuts. Very savory flavor which can be a little cloying after the last bite. The first taste was the best.
McEvoy Olive Oil, the new vanilla. Lovely neutral flavor and not ‘too’ oil-y
Blue Bottle Vietnamese Coffee, intensely bright yet still milky and creamy.
Tahitian Vanilla, this is an incredible vanilla.
Peanut Butter Curry, savory and the best bite was the first. Can be cloying.
Thai Chile Lime, bright and bold, one bite is great but one scoop might be just too much.
Salt and Pepper, try it. It’s a neat flavor but don’t get more than a spoon full unless you love it. A scoop is nearly inedible and the first ice cream I’ve ever thrown away.
Ancho Chocolate, chocolate with pepper. It’s neat!
Hibiscus Beet, totally unique (to me) flavor profile. Didn’t like or dislike. Try it. One spoonful probably enough.
Limoncello Italian Ice, can’t get enough of this one, like a sherbet, milky and intensely lemoney.
Elvis, the Fat years. Peanut butter with banana pieces and bacon bit. Love the combination of peanut butter and salty, bacon. Banana barely noticeable but on the whole a delicious flavor
Sweet Corn, sounds crazy but really, really good. Very milky and custardy, the notes of egg very present, in a good way. The flavor was subtle and rich, but not cloying at all.
secret breakfast and jesus juice ice cream from Humphry Slocombe
costco scoop, cheapest (good) ice cream in San Francisco~
I stopped dead in my tracks today when I saw a new sign above the ordering window at the local San Francisco Costco, Kirkland GELATO. Now available on the menu is an ice cream cone with not one, not two but three scoops of ice cream* for one dollar and fifty cents. That’s right, one dollar. Fifty cents! And, it’s in a waffle cone, no less!
-Bellissimo!
*ice cream is gelato style, and it is available in three flavors: wild berry, pistachio and stracciatella.
no lines at the Costco!
PS, as if the day couldn’t get any better, when L. and I went to check out there were NO LINES. Inconceivable!
PSS, if you, like me, are addicted to Costco, you gotta check out this BLOG
ice-cream on a cold summer evening in San Francisco: Bi-Rite Creamery
malted vanilla ice cream at Bi-Rite Creamery San Francisco
I just checked the weather on my Yahoo! homepage and learned that we may hit record low temperatures this evening, July 1st.
Here’s the report:
“Tonight: Partly cloudy skies. Gusty winds during the evening. Near record low temperatures. Low 51F. W winds at 25 to 35 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph.”
Just another summer evening in San Francisco!
As I rode home from work and the gym on my scooter, shivering and watching the fog blow in, I had an odd and intense craving. . . Ice-cream. It defies explanation and yet, in that moment, nothing else would do.
So L. and I put on our jackets and walked down the hill to a really great ice-cream place that’s fortunately a few blocks from home, Bi-Rite Creamery. And the line was around the block. It always is, even on a cold night like this. Like it is on rainy nights, and on winter ones. The secret is out; Bi-Rite has even been covered in national media like the Food Network and The New York Times, which reports that Bi-Rite has served up to 1,500 scoops in a day.
Salted Caramel is a perennial favorite flavor and has put them on the map. The other flavors are inventive too, like the delicious Brown Sugar with Ginger Caramel Swirl, or Ricanelas-a cinnamon base with snickerdoodle pieces. (It bears mentioning that they use fresh, local and organic ingredients, responsibly sourced, for their products but then, who on this foodie block doesn’t???)
While their hard dipped ice-creams are what makes them famous they only started serving soft serve a few months ago, so we went for that. (The fact that the soft-serve line was only half the length certainly was a bonus on a cold July night!) I ordered a malted vanilla and it was fabulous, silky in texture and deeply perfumed with my favorite flavor.
chocolate cookie at Bi-Rite Creamery
Cleverly, right there in the window where you place your order, they prominently display piles of house-made cookies, cupcakes and pie. Damn them. In my bag went a gorgeous dark chocolate cookie dusted in sugar (I’m a sucker for anything dusted in sugar, really) and a vanilla cupcake with salted caramel creme filling and a buttercream frosting, lightly dusted with sea salt.
My corruption is complete!
Tip: be sure to get the punch card when you pay, buy ten cones and you get the eleventh for free;-)
vanilla cupcake with salted caramel filling, Bi-Rite Creamery, SF
vanilla cupcake with salted caramel filling, Bi-Rite Creamery, SF
best ice cream in San Francisco, Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous
I’d been meaning to check this place out for a while now and Stephen G’s review on Yelp was the tipping point. I made a quick run after work yesterday and Mr and Mrs M. did not disappoint; I loved this place! And I’m going to go back tomorrow, too, so that’s twice in one weekend. If that’s not an endorsement, I don’t know what is. My intention was to get the Ballbark but couldn’t resist trying another flavor, all of them looked so good.
ice cream flavors at Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous
I sampled the Candied Violet and ultimately went with it. And, in my judgement, it just might be one of the best ice creams I’ve ever had.
Candied violet ice cream from Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous
The combination of the floral (real pieces of bright purple candied violet petals) with the notes of limoncello and lemon zest, made magic. What I really appreciate about this place is that the flavors are enticingly inventive without being a ‘dare’, if you know what I mean…
Then, there was that cookie. Before paying for my ice cream I spied a stack of chocolate chip like you wouldn’t believe.
chocolate chip cookie at Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous
I picked mine up, still WARM, and it actually started to bend in my hand. I’m not a crispy cookie kind of guy, I’m a “THIS-KIND” of chocolate cookie kind of guy. There was some nice browning on the outside, just crispy enough to contain a contrastingly melty, buttery and gooey center. Lots of chips. Awesome cookie. Maybe the best.
close up of chocolate chip cookie from Mr and Mrs Miscellaneous
So, I’m having friends over for dinner tomorrow and what’s for dessert? I don’t know yet, but I do know I’m going back to Mr and Mrs Miscellaneous to get it!
sign in the window at Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous
Peanut brittle at Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous, San Francisco
