Mitchell’s Ice Cream
Located on the southern end of The Dirty 30, Mitchell’s has been slangin’ scoops and cones for 55 years. In 1953 the brothers Mitchell opened for business on San Jose at 29th St. No strangers to lactose delight — their family had owned and operated a small dairy farm since the late 1800s.
The shop began as a neighborhood ice creamery, but it wasn’t long before other restos began requesting the good stuff for their own menus.
Over the years Mitchell’s has become famous for making exotic tropical flavors, including: avocado, buko (baby coconut), guava, langka, macapuno (sweet coconut), mango, pineapple and ube.
Pioneers of health and good taste, Mitchell’s is churned daily and with just a 16% butterfat base. Conversely, the vanilla ice cream is made with pure Bourbon.
It’s a celebration!!
- Voted “Best Ice Cream Parlor” by the SF Bay Guardian, 1996 – 2008.
- Voted “Best Ice Cream” by the SF Weekly, 2001 – 2008.
- Received 50 gold, silver and bronze ribbons at The California State Fair.
- Featured on Travel Magazine’s “Ice Cream Palaces” show in 2004 and on the Food Network’s “Roker On The Road” show in 2003.
My favorite flavors are black walnut & kahlua mocha cream.
it’s all about chocolate. for some reason, mitchell’s plain ol chocolate stands head and shoulders above any other chocolate ice cream i’ve ever had.
After I watched Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai where Forest Whitaker eats only chocolate ice cream, I never looked back.
mitchell’s? really? bi-rite creamery, any day. sry.
Mitchell’s? Bi-Rite?
Why choose? EAT BOTH.
yum.
Bi-rite Creamery is Pinkberry for the Dolores Park set. Yes, it’s good, but Mitchell’s is better — I have always been impressed with every Mitchell’s flavor I’ve tried. At Bi-rite many of the flavors are interesting but not delicious.
to each their own, anonymous. i find mitchell’s bland and too creepy ’50s and not worth the wait. bi-rite, by contrast, is fresh, flavorful AS HELL, and true, better-situated (proximate to Dolores Park). But is awesome location a reason to hate on a place?
Also, anoymous, have you ever been to Pinkberry? If so, please retract your insult. You may not favor Bi-Rite over Mitchell’s, but it’s certainly no Blandberry.
Swenson’s, anyone??
Mitchell’s uses artificial flavors and colors. mmmmmmmm
Pink berry is frozen yogurt and its in LA not SF.
On a day like today, I bet they have lines of people wrapping around the block! (6/12)
Why is the Mission called the Dirty 30? Something about 30 blocks?
yup, 30 blocks. and dirty ones.
some folks also call it “The Miracle Mile” — which is what i actually call Market St.
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