The best ice cream and shave ice in the Bay Area 2022

It’s scorching. But right here in the Bay Spot, we have wonderful locations to reduce your inner temperature with ice product and shave (not shaved!) ice. Here’s a sampling of the place to go:

Hawaiian Travel Inn, San Jose

Any person who’s been to Hawaii has possibly tasted shave ice, a smooth concoction of finely lower ice granules and tremendous-sweet syrups from all colors of the rainbow. This cafe serves shave ice flavored like watermelon, fruit punch, bitter apple and tiger blood, a strawberry combo with a trace of coconut. They’ll even top it with condensed milk, if you like – so you can appreciate a style of paradise whilst turning your head numb!

Open 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. day by day at 1095 Tully Rd., San Jose hawaiiandriveinnsanjose.com

Rita’s Italian Ice & Frozen Custard, Fremont (and other locations)

On the other conclusion of the icy spectrum is Italian ice, which options a combine of coarser ice particles. Rita’s does a great version with classic flavors like cherry and lemon or, relying which place you stop by, odder kinds like Sour Patch Children and “Unicorn.” They can also mix it up into a frozen drink or (individuals from Philly go over your ears) prime it with loaded dollops of frozen custard.

Fremont site open up 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, and midday to 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday at 39006 Paseo Padre Pkwy., Fremont, CA 94538 for other spots examine ritasice.com

Milkbomb Ice Cream, Berkeley

What’s greater than an ice-cream sandwich? What about an ice-cream doughnut? Milkbomb obliges with a prime-tier choice of worldwide doughnuts — glazed, brioche, Portuguese malasadas, Filipino ube pandesal the colour of Barney the dinosaur, and extra — stuffed with ice product. You can get them topped with sugary kid’s cereal and marshmallow fluff toasted below a blowtorch. The entrepreneurs exhibit advanced creativeness with their rotation of ice-cream flavors, having fooled close to with activated charcoal, espresso-mint mojito and durian imported from the Philippines.

Open up Thursday-Sunday (look at Yelp for present-day hours) at 2079 University Ave., Berkeley milkbombicecream.com

Trueburger, Oakland

This hugely rated joint has produced a name for alone with traditional burgers and garlic fries, but what some may well not understand is its milkshakes are leading-notch, as well. They are hand-spun, heavy bombs of ice-cold dairy that you can make even extra sumptuous with a assortment of combine-ins. Some swear by the peanut butter and fresh bananas, other individuals the Oreo cookies and toasted marshmallow, but for a unique experience go for the shake supplemented with everyone’s most loved put up-apocalyptic snack, Twinkies.