Normally, you would not be advised to open an ice-cream shop in the dead of winter—unless you happened to own Bi-Rite Creamery & Bakeshop, which on its opening day in mid-December would have benefited from a velvet rope and a bouncer. The latest addition to 18th Street’s gourmet ghetto, the sustainably designed shop sells its sumptuous Straus milk-based organic ice cream in flavors such as roasted banana, chai-spiced milk chocolate and—the insta-cult classic—salted caramel. Owners/pastry chefs Kris Hoogerhyde and Anne Walker, who have long done the baking for Bi-Rite Market (which Walker co-owns with her husband, Sam Mogannam), make a point to use as many local ingredients as possible—some from within walking distance, such as the beans from Ritual Coffee Roasters and the 10 gallons of honey harvested each week from beehives in a customer’s backyard just around the corner, used to make Bi-Rite’s most bewitching flavor: 16th Street honey-lavender.
Bi-Rite Creamery & Bakeshop 3692 18th St., 415-626-5600
Normally, you would not be advised to open an ice-cream shop in the dead of winter—unless you happened to own Bi-Rite Creamery & Bakeshop, which on its opening day in mid-December would have benefited from a velvet rope and a bouncer. The latest addition to 18th Street’s gourmet ghetto, the sustainably designed shop sells its sumptuous Straus milk-based organic ice cream in flavors such as roasted banana, chai-spiced milk chocolate and—the insta-cult classic—salted caramel. Owners/pastry chefs Kris Hoogerhyde and Anne Walker, who have long done the baking for Bi-Rite Market (which Walker co-owns with her husband, Sam Mogannam), make a point to use as many local ingredients as possible—some from within walking distance, such as the beans from Ritual Coffee Roasters and the 10 gallons of honey harvested each week from beehives in a customer’s backyard just around the corner, used to make Bi-Rite’s most bewitching flavor: 16th Street honey-lavender.
Bi-Rite Creamery & Bakeshop 3692 18th St., 415-626-5600
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