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Korean · Mission District · $$$$
Smooth soft‑serve with balanced sweetness and creamy finish
Dessert · Japantown · $
Signature creamy soft serve with strong matcha (or vanilla/rotating flavors) in a fresh waffle cone
Coffee & Tea · Marina District · $
A layered dessert‑drink combining matcha latte with creamy soft‑serve
Rincon Hill · $
Tangy‑sweet frozen yogurt‑style soft serve, especially good with blueberry and lemon syrup
New American · Embarcadero · $$$$
Creamy soft‑serve topped with salted caramel and cocoa nibs—rich, sweet, and texturally satisfying.
Coffee & Tea · Yerba Buena · $
Creamy soft serve dusted with matcha powder and topped with fruit purees — a cool, indulgent finish
Dessert · Noe Valley · $
Dairy-free soft-serve made with organic ingredients.
Banana-based soft-serve with strawberry and passionfruit — Hawaiian classic, dairy-free.
New American · Bernal Heights · $$$
Oversized soft-serve sundae that reviewers call some of the best in the city — creamy, inventive, and unmissable
American · Duboce Triangle · $
Straus organic soft-serve, a consistent draw.
Dessert · Mission Dolores · $
Smoother and richer than dairy soft serve — a rotating cult favorite.
Vibrant purple yam soft serve with a naturally sweet, earthy flavor in the warm taiyaki shell
Coffee & Tea · Inner Richmond · $
Roasted black sesame soft serve.
Chinese · Hayes Valley · $$$$
American · Cole Valley · $$
House soft-serve dessert that locals end the meal with
Dessert · Outer Sunset · $
Deeply roasted, nutty black sesame soft serve — the more flavorful of the two.
Shade-grown Kyoto matcha in soft-serve form; the cafe's most-photographed item.
Ramen · Mission District · $$
Coffee & Tea · The Castro · $
New American · Mission District · $$$
Pizza · Mission Bay · $$
House soft serve in branded cups; great flavor, divisive cup design and price.
Burgers · Embarcadero · $$
Impossibly smooth, richly flavored soft‑serve—Double 8 Salted Caramel is frequently praised
Latin American & Caribbean · Japantown · $$
New American · Hayes Valley · $
Dairy‑free soft serve, generous portion for a light dessert
Italian · Mission Bay · $$
Daily-churned gelato and sorbetto served as soft serve.
A simple, cooling finish to a savory rotisserie meal.
Japanese · Yerba Buena · $
A thick and creamy soft serve with a pronounced, satisfyingly bitter matcha flavor.
American · Treasure Island · $$
A unique whiskey-infused soft-serve ice cream, crowned with edible 24-karat gold.
Coffee & Tea · Inner Sunset · $
A playful dessert combining creamy soft serve (available in Original or Strawberry) with the satisfying chew of boba and a drizzle of black sugar syrup.
Pizza · North Beach · $$
House soft-serve ice cream — the dessert closer